The Book and Coin Connection

[Cassidy Nolen]

I was digging around today and found some stuff I had from the old spies.archives.

 

Found the Atari "The Book" pdf and a ton of Coin Connections, Atari's service bulletin's. The first I knew I had and was very happy to rediscover. I actually printed the first 100 pages out and bound them. The Book was printed early in the gaming industry's golden age but it covers vector games, raster monitor repair and general game diagnostics. I used that book to service games up until I got out of the business. Funny that old thing was that helpful!

 

As for Coin Connections, not super useful. Cool to see. I can fix a G07 but have no idea how/where to upload a 14 meg. pdf. Anyone willing to host it (give me an ftp to use)?

 

You all might already have the book. I could not find it on the web after spies closed, so this may be of some use to you.

 

C

[TheBman80]

Neat I don't have a G07 monitor but I have 19v2000 monitors in an Asteroids Deluxe and a Battlezone. I think vectors are really fun a very unique gaming experience that MAME really cant duplicate fully.

[Cassidy Nolen]

I agree about emulation. Its one of those things that you are either down with or not. For me I just want the real deal. The smell, feel, look, etc. are as important (in many ways moreso) than the gameplay itself. I can't play nearly as many times as I would like but I can go into the basement and enjoy the atmosphere. They don't have to be on to enjoy them in my opinion. There is a certain silent promise they make that you will enjoy them when they are on. I actually enjoy going to warehouses full of broken games and just imagine having the time to work on all of the games. It would be great to just spend a summer doing nothing but fixing arcades.

 

Anyway, off my retro-soapbox....anybody got a way to host 14 megs? I guess I should say it also has schematics for all the monitors up until 80. Thats a fair number all things considered. No Polo's or K7000's but just about every other.

 

C