Vintage Atari Fiber Optic Sign Found

[Atari Rescue Group]

I was with my brother at some camera shop while he was looking for some parts for something and I saw a flyer advertising some sign samples for sale by a company that makes a lot of fiber optic signs and displays in the same building. One of the items on the flyer was for a Atari sign. We ended up leaving the place with it.

 

It's a fiber optic sign 24" tall and 20" wide. It burns white for about 35 seconds and then goes through a rainbow wave four times in about 25 seconds. Looks like it may need a little cosmetic work but it's in nice shape as far as the lighting stuff goes.

 

I asked the guy who sold it to us and he said that it was custom made in the early 90's as a proposal for a larger sign that Atari bought. He didn't know much more than that.

 

I'm not so good with attachments. Hopefully I got the photos to go in here.

Edited March 22, 2006 by Atari Rescue Group

[Atari Rescue Group]

Dang--sorry for the large photos. I thought I made them smaller but obviously I didn't do that right.

[A2600]

Sweet sign!! Congrats on the super cool find

[Atariboy2600]

Heheh it looks like a HUGE Hasbro Lite-Brite

[Chickybaby]

Very cool looking indeed! Great find! People here have found the neatest stuff lately!

That would look incredible in a game room especially one dedicated to atari stuff!

I would definitely hold onto it if I were you, but I am sure that (besides myself drooling) you'd get quite a few offers for it if you ever decided to sell.

[Atari Rescue Group]

As of now I'm looking to hold onto it. Any offers would have to be pretty interesting. This thing wasn't cheap.

 

As soon as I can get hold of a good video camera I'll try to make a good movie of the display sequence. I tried with my inexpensive digital camera and the movie function is very poor on that thing.

 

Where's the best place to park a movie of this?

[Atari Rescue Group]

Whoa--I got those dimensions wrong. (fixed them above)

 

A closer look at the ID badge on the back says it was made on August 6, 1991.

Edited March 22, 2006 by Atari Rescue Group

[christianscott27]

wow thats a truely great find!

 

i want it and i'm sure almost everyone else does but i think you should hang onto it, you'll never find another like it. i'm still kicking myself (3 years later) for not dropping $40 on a neon nintendo sign at a flea, and those are much more common.

[jedijeff]

Very cool sign!

 

How about some pics of the inside?

 

I wanna make one.

 

Jeff

[Mad Scientist]

Whoa--I got those dimensions wrong. It's 24 inches tall and 20 inches wide.

 

I kinda figured... unless, of course, you live in the Land of the Giants...

 

-MS

[Ralph3]

i'm still kicking myself (3 years later) for not dropping $40 on a neon nintendo sign at a flea

I had a chance about 3 years ago to get the R2D2 Pepsi display/cooler for $30.00 . Mine will still hurt for many years to come.

[Albert]

That sign is very cool, thanks for sharing pictures of it. Would be great to see a video of it in a dark room.

 

Where's the best place to park a movie of this?

 

I can put the movie on our server. You can either email it to me ([email protected]) or if it's too large, I can give you FTP access so you can upload it.

 

..Al

[Atari Rescue Group]

Yup, this thing is a Lite-Bright on steroids for sure!

 

I'm sure I can get a good video camera to use during the Christmas holidays. Al, I can send you the memory card or copy the movie from the card to a dvd disc. It would propably be a mistake to let me have FTP access--I've got enough problems with image sizes as you can see.

[Albert]

I'm sure I can get a good video camera to use during the Christmas holidays. Al, I can send you the memory card or copy the movie from the card to a dvd disc. It would propably be a mistake to let me have FTP access--I've got enough problems with image sizes as you can see.

 

Sending a DVD disc or memory card would be fine, although a DVD disc would be better since you'd probably want the memory card back. Let me know when you've made the video and I can give you my address to mail the disc to.

 

..Al

[Albert]

Dang--sorry for the large photos. I thought I made them smaller but obviously I didn't do that right.

 

I just resized the images so they are a bit easier to view in the thread.

 

..Al

[bcostin]

I can say with some confidence that that is the coolest thing in the world, ever. Even my Atari-indifferent wife was impressed.

[Lifeguard]

Just taking a look at it again and that sure is the coolest thing in the world. Hey brother, you are sure lucky I wanted to make a stop at the camera shop! Let's fire that thing up for the holidays as the lights are so cool!

[jboypacman]

That my friend is awesome.I need to find things like that.lol.Congrats on the great find.

[Ghost Soldier]

Very nice find.

[classics]

I am totally jealous. Congrats!

[Ze_ro]

Take a look at the time-stamps on the posts... the original poster found this thing 2 YEARS ago...

 

--Zero

[+else]

I think once the date of a thread gets to be over N years old, there should be a big honking hot-pink flashing display that tells someone trying to reply to it. I swear not a week goes by where someone doesn't resurrect some ancient thread.....

[A.J. Franzman]

How about a Microsoft-style popup dialog box saying something like:

 

"The last post in the topic to which you are replying was made on %DATE%. Since this is more than %OLD_TOPIC_WARN_INTERVAL% ago, please reconsider posting if you have nothing significant to add. Are you sure you want to post this reply? [NO] [YES]"

Edited December 20, 2006 by A.J. Franzman

[Uzumaki]

Or just disable the reply button if it goes unanswered for a certain period of time. It's probably better to start a new thread and link to old thread than to bump a 2 year old post.