Just found out I have a room full of early Atari 800 & 400 & stuff!

[Kurisufarian]

Holy crap this place is awesome! I sold a bunch of this stuff to some of the good people who enjoy some time here :-)

 

I am selling my house and have unpacked the Atari stuff which has been in boxes since the early 80's.

My son is grown and I am minimizing, and I really didn't expect this. These are actual Atari's my little brother and I grew up on!

 

Make an offer for what's left! C'mon! who wants the rest of the lot...

- Atari 800 w/power supply, basic cart, 48k

- Atari 400 w/power supply, basic cart

- 810 Disc Drive w/power supply

- I have pretty much everything but the computer boxes, even have the Atari 800 dust cover.

- original controllers, track balls, paddles, early flight style joysticks, and a rapid fire controller thingy

- Books (I also remember sitting for hours with my brother and typing in games and programs

 

I really don't want to move with it!

The $ goes right in my son's college account :-)

Thanks everyone! This place is great, makes me want to get back into all the Atari stuff.... ok maybe not, but I'll probably go and buy a couple of Atari t-shirts or something now.

 

SOLD so far:

Basic Fun book

Compute's 3rd Book of Atari

All the Atari game cartridges

All the original games and software on disks (omg that one was a steal!) :-)

 

BTW- My son actually left for college on Feb 7th :-) !!!!!

Edited February 9, 2012 by Kurisufarian

[ACrystal2011]

Id be interested

[Grig]

pm sent for the disks!

[Mirage]

See this book right here, Basic Fun? When I first discovered computers, I bought that book at one of those school book sales. It was my very first introduction to programming, and really using computers, ever. I devoured that book. Simple programs, but amazingly memorable for me.

 

I have a PDF of it, but I'd love to have a copy of the actual book. If there's any way we can make that happen, please let me know.

 

(Also, Compute!'s Third Book of Atari I would like to have, to maybe make it a little more worthwhile).

 

Thanks.

 

Edited January 11, 2012 by Mirage

[Kurisufarian]

I think I want you to have the book... can you pm me?

Lol, I think we got the book from a sale at our local library.

My little brother and I programmed everything from that book when we got it!

[Kurisufarian]

Updating my original post with more photos/finds including some original games with instructions!

 

Really interesting (to me anyway) is the "FORMULA ONE RACING by Sid Meier ©1982"

 

Got a few random things in there too....

"Venture" for Atari 2600, 1981

"Asylum" for the C64, 1981

"Congo Bongo" for the 400/800, 1983

Edited January 11, 2012 by Kurisufarian

[thegamezmaster]

PM sent on a cart.

[Bryan]

Is the 810 the Tandon (small flip door in the middle) or MPI (large garage-door) version?

[Kurisufarian]

810 drive's door pic added above :-)

[labrat]

 

"Congo Bongo" cartridge for SEGA, 1983

 

 

This one should be for the 400/800 as well; its just made by SEGA.

[+Ransom]

Yeah, it's definitely an A8 cart.

[Kurisufarian]

Cool.

Doh!

[Kurisufarian]

I just want to say this place is killer. Speaking with excellent peoples, wish I had discovered atariage.com a while ago.

- K

[BillC]

Is the 810 the Tandon (small flip door in the middle) or MPI (large garage-door) version?

I believe you have that backwards, the Tandon mechanism having the garage-door type mechanism while the MPI has the latch across the center of the disk slot.

 

Bill

[Kurisufarian]

Is the 810 the Tandon (small flip door in the middle) or MPI (large garage-door) version?

I believe you have that backwards, the Tandon mechanism having the garage-door type mechanism while the MPI has the latch across the center of the disk slot.

 

Bill

 

What's the difference, one earlier, one worth more? I assume mine is the Tandon?

 

....Also, what can anyone tell me about the 800, 810, and 400 from the serial numbers?

 

I had a memory yesterday of when my dad took the computer back to get the 48k put in, I think.

[themrfreeze]

IIRC, the Tandon mechanism has the small flip up latch, while the MPI mechanism has the wide 'garage-door' mechanism (as seen in the pics above). The Tandon mechanism was supposedly better quality.

[Kurisufarian]

Thank you AtariAge, I literally found contacts here to sell and give away most of the lot!!

 

What's left is the 800 stuff, 810 disk drive and controllers...

It's on ebay, no reserve!

 

Atari 800 Computer w/ extra memory, 810 Disk Drive, ORIGINAL OWNER! No Reserve!

 

 

Thanks again everyone!!!

[enito]

Hi,im interesed..possible ship to Chile?