kdeinv Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Hello I have had 2 shelves of atari equipment that I would like to sell. I have: 2 Atari 800 computers 4 disk drives (2 810, 1 1050, and a centurian) Read write switches Atari 1027 Printer Atari Modem Atari Recorder Over 100 games on diskette (On both sides of disk labelled) Many utilities as well (Syncalc and old word processor) Many books and manuals (Antic and analog computing mags from the 80s) Some joysticks Power supplies. I think everything works. What price could I fetch from someone for all of this? Attached is a picture 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 (edited) I think everything works. What price could I fetch from someone for all of this? Untested equipment usually gets about 5% - 20% of the value of tested equipment -- of similar type and condition. Edited October 7, 2014 by MrFish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuji-Man Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Untested equipment usually gets about 5% - 20% of the value of tested equipment, of similar type and condition. Yes. Take the time to test it. It'll be worth to know what works and what needs to be fixed. I'm guessing the 1027 will be good for parts only, because the rubber printing portion is probably dry rotted. 1020 plotter, ink pens dry? Keys on keyboards on computers all working, not sticking? Drives cleaned, detected, and working? Working well will fetch some good cash... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Anybody- what is a Centurian disk drive? Never seen or heard of that one. European/UK? -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdeinv Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 Disk Number Games Disk 1 Zaxxon Disk 1 Starfire Disk 1 Survivor Disk 1 Dig Dug Disk 1 Anteater Disk 1 Maniac Miner Disk 1 Canyon Climber Disk 2 Shamus Disk 2 Shamus II Disk 2 Wizwor Disk 2 Whizkid Disk 2 Juice Disk 2 QUIX Disk 2 Kidgrid Disk 2 Time Runner Disk 2 Gorn Disk 2 Livewire Disk 3 Space Invaders Disk 3 Kritters Disk 3 Megalegs Disk 3 Moonshuttle Disk 3 Bug Attack Disk 3 Kayos Disk 3 Galaxy Chase Disk 3 Gorf Disk 3 Asteroids Disk 3 Space Inv 5200 Disk 3 Onslought Disk 3 Ambush Disk 3 Sentinal Disk 3 Airstrike Disk 3 Starisle Disk 3 Astro chase Disk 4 Missle Command Disk 4 Stratos Disk 4 Genetic Disk 4 Star Raiders Disk 4 Myrapede Disk 4 Moonbase Disk 4 Satans Hollow Disk 4 Caves Mars Disk 4 Vanguard Disk 4 Thrax Disk 4 Protector I will need to test. Right now I am inventorying all games on each diskette. Each disk has 4 or 5 games per side and as I recall there is a menu selection for each game on the disk. Here is another picture of the drives I have. My father had a friend back in the 80s when I was a teenager that would get him these games that we would upload onto the diskettes. Some of the games we have binders of instructions for and others we do not. Also attached a partial list of games by diskette (Only 1st 4 disks). (With 100 or so diskettes it will be somewhat time consuming to do this) Thanks for any advice on getting a fair price for all of this after I test to see if it works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Android8675 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I can't comment on the pricing, but I can say that those disks contain copyrighted games, unless you have the original disks, probably best not to sell them as they are considered pirated. If you have original manuals & disks you can sell those, and original Atari games will usually sell well, some may even be rare. Instead of figuring out what's on the copied disks, focus on the manuals you have and see if you can match them to the original disk. You may want to poke around the Marketplace forum here or do some searching on Ebay for some ideas on pricing. If you can, I would do as everyone else suggested, setup a system with one of the drives, boot up the games to verify the hardware is working. Your disk drives, if they have write protect switches may have Happy or US Doubler mods as well, and considering how many pirated games you have there's a chance you may have a mod in one of those drives. That'll increase it's value if it's working. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Hmm, if noone want it - please write me about price of your Atari books and magazines with shipped to Poland? Unfortunatelly - I have not money to buy more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdeinv Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 If anyone is interested in this Atari equipment and games please let me know. I live in the suburbs of Atlanta GA in Woodstock, GA. I will take $200 for everything (as is) Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Good price. What is cost to send it to Poland, if it is possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdeinv Posted October 7, 2014 Author Share Posted October 7, 2014 I would rather find someone locally in the atlanta area since It is a lot of stuff. Also found an Atari 400 computer on my shelf as well. So there are 3 atari computers ( 2 800 and 1 400) Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 O.K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 The 1027 printer is probably worthless (as a printer) for the reason already mentioned. Its only good for parts for other projects. New pens for the 1020 plotter are available for a few dollars from Best Electronics. The pirated software is also mostly worthless as it can be all be downloaded (just add them in to the deal as a stack of used disks). If the computers and disk drives actually work, $200 is a reasonable price. To get the best price, clean and test the hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdeinv Posted October 8, 2014 Author Share Posted October 8, 2014 I tested the drives and 3 of the 4 work. Not sure how they are daisy chained but 3 of them came on and loaded the games off the diskette. One of the 800 machines would not load. So I have a good 800 and 400 and 3 working drives with all games and everything for $200 if anyone around atlanta, ga is interested. Please let me know. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tregare Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Anybody- what is a Centurian disk drive? Never seen or heard of that one. European/UK? -Larry could only find one other reference to those drives, someone said they were 810 drives in a metal case with the archiver add on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I would not bother listing the disks as they are of zero value being copies, the likelihood of you having a rare program on them that is fully working is nigh on zero. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I wouldnt catalog the disks - being copies they actually arent worth anything. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Munoz Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 If you would ship to Texas for a reasonable price, I will buy all for $200 and I can pay with PayPal. My Zip code is 78245. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kogden Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I live in the middle of SC.... can't really spend the cash right now unfortunately otherwise I'd just come pick up the gear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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