82-T/A

So, I'm selling another one. This one is a 4-bay unit. While all of them have 4 bays, this one can actually have 4 external 5.25" bays. Comes with the following (copy / paste from my auction): -------------------- Hi! Thanks for looking! I'm selling my 8088 KayPro PC-10. This is a fairly rare one that I recently repaired. Most KayPro 8088 computers did not have all four 5.25" drives accessible as external drives. As you can see in this model, it has two floppy drives on the right, and a single hard drive on the bottom to the left. This one is also unique because it actually has an Intel 8088 processor, rather than an NEC V20 processor like most other KayPro models. Here are the specifications for the computer: 8088 Intel Processor on KayPro mainboard KayPro Multifunction I/O card 640k base, and 128k extended for RAM-DRIVE 1 Serial Port / 1 Parallel Port KayPro EGA Graphics Card (CHIPS chipset) Seagate ST-251 RLL 32mb Hard Drive (Working!) Dual 360k 5.25" Chinon Floppy Drives DOS 3.21, and a couple of games installed What you get: Computer as shown in the pictures above Power cable Does not come with: Monitor Keyboard Any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!

Selling another one, but this one isn't brand new. It's a 4-slot unit... pretty rare. https://www.ebay.com/itm/273477140630

Now I have to wait... this sucks! hahah

Hah, I know... it was crazy. I spent maybe $175 bucks, and got like 14 games, and 2 systems. I bought CD games even though I didn't have the drive. They still wanted an absurd amount for the CD Drive (they were asking like over $100 for it), so I ended up getting one later on from GO ATARI.

Man... just ordered both. I hate you guys... hahah.... EDIT: I have to say, I'm REALLY looking forward to playing Defender of the Crown on the Jaguar...

Yeah, I bought the vast majority of my "rare" original purchases of Atari stuff from Kay Bee when they were blowing them out. I paid $25 per system, boxed, new. CD games were $7 bucks, cartridge games were $5 bucks. So like... Wolf 3D was $5, and yes... Primal Rage was $7...

You mean, so that when I hook stuff up via RCA, it doesn't look like shit? Thanks!

That is a feat... for lack of a better word... I can remember just having to figure out how to get everything to sit comfortably together with multiple COMM ports and Parallel ports all conflicting with my Sound Blaster and whatever else I had in there... let alone having to deal with ~7 or whatever sound cards. Yeah, I'm kind of wishing I had never gotten rid of my Gravis Ultrasound ACE. I liked the normal GUS that I had... and at the time I bought it, it allowed me to support General MIDI games without spending tons of money. Later on after I upgraded a few times, I ended up getting the ACE, and after a while, I found myself never using it so I sold it. It was a great card though!

Hahah... yeah, sorry. But I visit Amarillo when I was on vacation there, lots of cool stuff to do. Palo Duro State park was really neat too!

Hi! Can I ask what the video upgrade box is? I assume the obvious... but is it something specific for the Dreamcast? I see a HDMI port on it...

Damn! You're right! I always thought Jason Newstead was what helped define the difference in style after Ride the Lightning. I had no idea that Cliff Burton was also on Master of Puppets. Man, this is an old conversation for me... I can't even remember the last time I listened to Metallica. I listen to talk radio all the time, and on the occasion that I do turn on the radio, it's because my daughter is in the car, and I put on some bebop channel that has all the new weird songs. Oh, and not true. Metallica only has 5 albums... those other 5 you speak of are garbage and not worthy of being called Metallica... haha. I stopped listening to Metallica after Load. I know they had Re-Load, but I have no idea what it sounds like. Hard to imagine there were THREE MORE after that. They must have been so totally unimpressive that no one ever talks about them. Last best concert with them was Lollapalooza 1996.

San Antonio! I've been here for a little over a year, it's been pretty cool... and I've enjoyed my time here.

I mean no disrespect to Cliff Burton, but out of the 4-5 real Metallica albums, I like "Master of Puppets" and "...And Justice For All" much more than I do "Kill 'Em All" or "Ride the Lightning." I kind of feel like Jason Newstead made those albums what they were, being that everything else was the same. The Album with the Don't Tread On Me that everyone calls "black," I like that one a lot too... of course, everyone does. I have no idea what comes after that. When I bought Load back in 1996... I was basically done, and never really bought another Metallica album after that. Slayer was awesome back then too, and so was Pantera… but they were a bit more shouty. I was more into Nirvana / the grunge type music, but I couldn't deny some of the really heavy stuff was good. Never got into Manson or anything like that.

True story... when I was 16, I seriously considered getting the heads of all four Metallica guys tattooed on my shoulder. SOOOOOO glad I didn't do that. Nothing against people with tattoos (I have none), but that would have been suuuuuuuuuuuuuch a bad decision. It really just proves that when you're young, you're a total f**king dumbass. I'm totally amazed at kids who make it to ~20 without having done something insanely idiotic. And I have REALLY good, hard-working, intelligent parents, who provided me with lots of opportunities, and lots of encouragement. Hahah... so God only knows what the fuck. But I made it out of adolescence without dying, or doing something too stupid.

Hah... at least you had no doubt as to the type of currency I was referring to!

Yeah... if anyone here HAS a GUS.. check out Star Control 2. The "mod" files (remember those?) it plays throughout the game are done instead using native capability, rather than through the normal Sound Blaster. I'm curious how you have three General Midi - compatible cards in your computer? If I'm not mistaken, there are only two address spaces that are typically reserved for General MIDI... it's like 300 or 330 or something? I've got the Sound Blaster 16 ASP because it requires no drivers at all.... just the "SET BLASTER" comments in the AutoExec… I assume the AWE32 requires all the stuff to be loaded? How is the General MIDI on that card? (Guess I'll go to Vogons and listen to BoxPressed's recordings). EDIT: wow... this is nuts... this guy was able to do it! hahah... https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=37996

Yup! Just found it... someone sent me a link. Thrilled to get a copy. I'm not paying $1,000 bucks for Battleshphere. I've bought literally every other game... no sadness here by me! Thanks!

Yes! I totally agree, that was amazing!!! That's a LOT of work!!!! I guess you're right about the Ultrasound. I'm just amazed at the prices.

Just got it! It was a refurb for $22, and it's immaculate, new as far as I can tell. It works awesome... thanks for the rec again!

Back in the day... and I'm meaning the mid 1990s. I worked at CompUSA during the Summer and bought a bunch of cards. I'd spend money on computer parts, and was always trying to improve my computer by upgrading to a better sound card. At one point I had a Gravis UltraSound MAX. It was a pretty neat card, played stuff in General Midi... and it also supported OPL2 / Yamaha and Sound Blaster stuff. It was a pain in the ass, required a lot of drivers, and really... aside from the General Midi... the Sound Blaster side of it just totally sucked. So I sold it and upgraded to a Sound Blaster 16, and then eventually bought a Roland SCC-1 (for $32 bucks from my friend who ended up majoring in music and didn't want it anymore). I still liked some aspects of the Gravis Ultrasound, so I bought a Gravis Ultrasound ACE. The ACE was nice because I could still load patches, but it didn't try to do Sound Blaster emulation. This made it a great companion to the Sound Blaster 16. For a while, I had the Sound Blaster 16 ASP, a Roland SCC-1, and a Gravis UltraSound ACE. I got tired of having literally three sound cards, so I got rid of the ACE. Occasionally when I'm bored, I go looking on eBay, and the Gravis UltraSound cards always sell for INSANE prices... I mean totally insane. The crappiest one usually goes for $300 bucks... like... no one would ever even want it. There's a MAX for sale right now that's over $900 bucks. The ACE, the last one I had, is probably so insanely rare that if it popped up on eBay, it would be over $1,000 bucks. Other than Star Control 2, there was never a single game that I could find that ever used the Gravis Ultrasound natively. For those who have ever played Star Control 2, it's crystal clear with the Gravis Ultrasound, where as you get a constant fuzz from the Sound Blaster and every other card. So aside from Star Control 2... what is the huge demand for that card? What am I missing that I'm not understanding? Why are they commanding such high prices?

Hahaha...

.

Hahah... yeah. I do still keep some stuff. And occasionally I do buy some older stuff to fix, but I do so with the understanding that it WILL be sold off once I'm done with it. But... I really want to be a minimalist. I try to only keep thing that have special importance to me... everything else... I really just try to get rid of. I have a Laserdisc player too... but I really should just unload it.

I kind of get weird when I read stuff like that... Those comments strike me as someone who is very intelligent, and wasting their brain and time on this planet. I'm being a bit dramatic here, so I apologize in advance. But, I see the level of exponential development and design that's gone on over the past 100 years, and it seems like we've stopped thinking big. Since I graduated high school in 1996... what's really changed? We had cell phones back then, sure they were analog, but we still had them. We had computers, we also had the internet. The only thing I can conceivably see that's really all that different is the speed and size of computers. They are much faster, and much smaller... and we've integrated them into a lot more things... IE: my oven has a Linux busybox. But... the leaps and bounds innovation, I'm just not seeing it. Haha... sure, people should play games... but that's what's caused me to stay away from big immersive games. The last online multiplayer game I played was Ultima Online. I was addicted for two weeks straight... that's all I did. I was doing shit like making clothes, building a house, and then it hit me... I'm an idiot... why am I not doing this shit in real life?

When my parents bought the 5200, I don't remember the NES even being a thing at the time... though, I lived in that house for 4-5 years, so it it was at best, 1-2 years away. Never the less, I already said the joystick was why my parents returned it. It's not that it wasn't self centering, it just didn't flat-out work. Both of them were broken. I was so upset, I wanted my parents to keep it. What kind of horrible QA/QC did Atari have back then? I'm just shocked that they wouldn't have done some kind of testing. At the time the 5200 came out, the graphics, to me... were noticeably better than what I was used to playing on the 2600. It SOUNDED better, the graphics seemed better... just all-around, seemed better. We'd had the atari 2600 for at least 4-5 years prior.