Opry99er Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Picked up this minty-fresh copy of the XB manual today for $3.00 Good day. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Nice I been using mine today, figured out how to use the joystick to advance screens got title screen and 1st of 2 story screens programmed Learning XB is fun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 It is!!!!! Glad you are having fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Three bucks!?! What color was the mask you were wearing? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfernalKeith Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Part of me loves seeing pristine copies of stuff like that... but I also love my beat-to-crap copy with the margin notes on every page that the previous owner cut and comb-bound so it'd lay flat... that's the one I want in the trenches with me when I'm hammering out this code. Someday I'll have the space and money for both! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 My old tattered one got torn to shreds... Kids and dog. This one will be old and tattered soon enough. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 The old tattered ones, with writing coffee stains ect., are best they tell the stories of the programmers that came before, always cool to think what they might have been working on 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfernalKeith Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 My comb-bound copy came from a guy in Norwalk, Ohio, about an hour from here. I don't remember how I got in touch with him but he was selling off his system and I drove out there to pick it up. I got a speeding ticket within sight of his exit. He hadn't used his TI in years but was pretty into it when it was new, and he had a lot of printed out listings and programs saved to cassette. I got some of the other books in my collection from that haul, in addition to this one, and I think of him every time I sit down to work because his dot-matrix address label is on the front cover. That's one of the things I like about cobbling together a collection from so many sources over the course of years. Each piece of the puzzle has its own story. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 I know that drill quite well, o Infernal One! A substantial portion of my collection started with me, as I bought the items new back in the day--but the things I've bought in the time since then are what makes that collection of TI bits a wonderful thing. . . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 I think of him every time I sit down to work because his dot-matrix address label is on the front cover. Send a Christmas card to the address... with the ti99.atariage.com url printed on the inside. You never know what could happen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Send a Christmas card to the address... with the ti99.atariage.com url printed on the inside. You never know what could happen. I just fell off my chair... I had no idea that URL even existed! How cool is that?!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 A bit disconcerting though for the uninitiated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) Today's score: $0.75 for the 5.25" floppy case $1.00 each for the cassette cases $2.75 total for this take. Pretty decent haul!!! Edited December 7, 2015 by Opry99er 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted December 9, 2015 Author Share Posted December 9, 2015 (edited) Not directly TI related, but I picked up this lot for $40!!! An early Christmas gift from the wife. Edited December 9, 2015 by Opry99er 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 $1.50 USD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 That one is a somewhat difficult book to find. . .although I've seen several of them for sale lately. Good price! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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