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Good point--those flyers are likely the rarest items in the lot. I'll have to scan them in at some point and put them on archive.org.

Finished sorting most of the floppies and manuals. That box of manuals is packed thick and tall and heavy! Check out that early stylus. Also found among the stuff: eight brand new 120mb Superdisks, AOL floppy, tons of flyers from vintage local computer stores (386sx systems, etc).

This was another CL wild goose chase pretty badly timed since I am moving soon and didn't need 10 file boxes to deal with. Still, I had to rescue this trove of late 80s and early 90s PC educational software--with quite a few games tossed in--that came from a defunct reading clinic. Everything was carefully stored in file folders and in many cases the disks were placed in envelopes, likely only copied once and never used. Every disk in that picture also had a manual in mint condition (not pictured). Several boxes to go through still. I'm hoping somebody over at the Kyroflux forums will be willing to preserve these educational disks because many are quite obscure. As many of you know, educational software was rarely coveted at copy parties back in the day.

Ah, that's right, I dimly remember that mod. I assume the main reason would be to use the flip side without needing a disk notcher.

This 3rd party dual drive was in a CoCo 3 lot I purchased recently. I never had a CoCo back in the day and wondered what the two switches were on the front, some sort of mod for density support or? I was able to load up a disk just fine with one of the drives.

That lot of five I posted from Computer Hut Software, I think those titles are actually Spectral Associates games rebranded(?) or bootlegged(?) or? When I Google those titles Spectral Associates is what comes up. Maybe I should update the auction listing to include that speculation.

I never owned a Coco back in the day but found two lots recently in my area at prices I couldn't resist, with the latest having a number of tape titles. Unfortunately the tape drive doesn't work so I was going to put these on eBay but was wondering whether it was worth the trouble to piece any of them out, or just sell as one lot. I searched this forum and found that Coco rarity guides don't really exist, which I find odd because it was such a popular system. This system also came with a Speech pak and I took the trouble to type in the basic code to make it talk and it sounds pretty good, better than "SAM" on the C64 in my opinion. Edit: Orange tape on the bottom is Math Tutor

I recently got some 8" floppy disks for Ohio Scientic computers, with Feb 1981 stamped on them (and © 1978 on the ink label itself). I mailed them to an OSI enthusiast who successfully transferred them to emulator format. I was amazed and delighted, but in this case the disks had been in climate-controlled storage since 1989.

Tunnels of Doom Hunt the Wumpus Slymoids Alpiner Parsec Munchman Indoor Soccer Return to Pirates Isle I can recall how thrilled I was to learn about the SHIFT 838 keyboard cheat you could use on the title screen of the TI-brand games.

Here's another boxed Air Raid found the wild. No manual. I had a chance to see this in person but was afraid I would sneeze on it, so I passed.

Sweet! Glad to hear this baby is alive and kicking again. I never would have had the time/room/equipment to resurrect it so I'm glad it got into the right hands.

I booted the MSTE hard drive system disk from http://www.atari.org/services/systemdisks.php and put the hard disk PRG in the auto folder as the manual instructed, then rebooted. Still no hard disk icon (but there is a more constant HDD light) and now with the hard disk driver the A: drive loads up folders with gibberish titles [see attachment]. Also discovered that the ESC key on the keyboard seems not to work. It may sound like I'm tapping out early, but I lack the workspace and time for a project of this scope. Anyone in Southern California want to come by and take this over for a fair price?

Doh! I got it turn on today but it does not show a hard disk icon. The hard disk does make some initial noise two or three times while flashing its light, but after a couple of minutes on a white screen, the system asks for a floppy. I cancel that request and see the desktop with two floppy icons, but no HDD icon. ;( The original owner said the HDD was filled with software so I'm guessing that if the system is not starting from HDD, I have a problem. It is hard to believe he would have only been starting it from floppies, right? Any suggestions for the next course of actions?

I bought a big lot of vintage computer software and hardware today with the crown jewel being this Mega STE. I've used STs and 400/800s before but never this fellow. I haven't even turned it on yet. The owner said it runs TOS 2.05 and should be working. It looks like there are a couple of external hard drives but those may be for the ST, yeah? Assuming the Mega STE works, is there an easy way I can make a backup of the entire hard drive image? I have old SCSI cards and what not...some way perhaps to make a "dumb" sector-by-sector copy of it in case the HW fails?

Somebody paid $1,400 for my copy of Ultima I: The Original, and the losing bidder told me he tried to bid more but his Internet connection flaked out. Hardcore collectors lose sleep at night knowing they're missing a title they've been seeking for years. So $500, $1000 is a small price to fill the void and bring them comfort.

Hi guys, I put my VG+ CIB copy of Attack of the Mutant Camels up on eBay today: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 161058050184 This Sunday evening I'll be listing more like Flip and Flop, Serpentine, Mouskattack, Getaway!, Ballblazer (NIB), Rescue on Fractalus (NIB), Tail of Beta Lyrae, and a couple others.

I just got lucky and found this locally in a big lot. I haven't checked out the contents yet, but assuming it is complete I'll put it on eBay in a week or so and see what happens.

Today I picked up a lot of old 80s computer software including a few R7-R9 titles for Atari 400/800. For $5 or so each I knew the price was right, especially on a couple of the more obscure titles!

I went there today, but the early birds got the worms. There were two cartridge holders of apps and games for $1 each that were empty today. I got Basic XE and SpartaDos X with manuals for $10, but the BasicXE had apparently been repaired in the past. The 130XE and TI-99 were really dirty.

My second score in two months, making me officially lucky. Tonight's price of admission was US$50. Not pictured are many other loose carts, a working light sixer system, and a few more complete boxes in VG+ condition. But I believe these are the best of the bunch based on my limited Atari 2600 knowledge (and heapings of help from Atariage guides). The only box was that still shrinkwrapped was Pengo, which I thought was a lucky+1 bonus.

Both...the big boat anchor computer did not come with its ignition key, so I've never tried it, but it does come with the power/video cable to the terminal.

Cool! These anecdotes are priceless, unrecorded bits of computing history.

The Yahoo! group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ti99-4a/ is filled with die hard TI-99 gurus who are the keepers of the secret knowledge. Many of them are getting quite old so ask while you can.

Got this off CL a while back. The guy listed it for $200 but nobody else wanted it, so I sent him an e-mail to the effect of, "If you don't sell this, I'll offer $25." My cell phone picture gave it a sort of divine halo where it sits above my desk in my office. Retro geezers will appreciate it when I tell you the keyboard click acoustics on this terminal are fantastic. Sounds just like David's computer in War Games. I've actually never turned it on because it powered on with a key, which is missing. I'm sure I could hotwire it on but the components are looking really old and dusty and I don't have any floppies, so I will let it rest. More info on this model here: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=799

I plan on auctioning off some rare boxed titles for various platforms, starting with Pogo Joe for Atari: http://rover.ebay.co...&mtid=824&kw=lg This is my first time shipping outside the USA but I will be using 200lb strength boxes. Has been a slow start but I will be listing these soon, all of which are in excellent condition and some NIB: Ultima I: The Original [up for auction Sunday, May 5th] Alter Ego Male Version [up for auction Sunday, May 5th] Trolls & Tribulations [up for auction Sunday, May 5th] Wasteland (flat and solid box) [flat box currently up for auction] Robots of Dawn (NIB) [up for auction Sunday, May 5th] Forbidden Castle by Angelsoft [up for auction Sunday, May 5th] The Wizard and the Princess (NIB) Thanks!