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    Incognito board for sale:

    in Buy, Sell, and Trade

    Posted · Edited by Muzz73

    OK... pics! Here are both of my Incognito boards. Why? Because I have decided to part with both of them. The dice will now choose two people.

     

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    The one on the left has an extra bag of goodies with it... wires and things for installing it. The one on the right is exactly how I received it from Candle (you can see his name on the envelope if you zoom). Both boards and new and have never been installed, but I am selling them "as is", just because I don't really know much about them.

     

    Same deal... $150 U$D plus shipping via PayPal only. I will contact both buyers via private message on 06/27 - after I have posted the results here. If no payment has been received within 1 week (by 07/04), I will let the dice choose someone else.

     

    Everyone cool with that? Just trying to be fair and reasonable.

     

    Best of luck to all!

    Incognito board for sale:

    in Buy, Sell, and Trade

    Posted

    I am officially putting my spare Incognito board up for sale.

     

    Rather than putting it on eBay and letting people fight over it, I am selling it here for the same $150 USD (plus shipping) that I paid for it. I just want it to go to someone who will use and enjoy it. If you are interested, here's how it will go:

     

    Post a PUBLIC reply to this message expressing your interest. I will keep this open for two weeks; the cutoff date will be 06/25 at midnight in my time zone (Pacific). I will then post a list of all interested parties with a number assigned to each individual on 06/26. I will determine the buyer randomly with dice on 06/27, so this will be a sort of lottery. I will contact the winning buyer via private message after the winning result is posted publicly.

     

    Offers sent via private message will not be accepted, as I want this to stay public; no secrets.

     

    Payment will be via PayPal only.

     

    You may begin stating your interest now.

     

    Thanks to all.

    Favorite DOS classics

    in Classic Computing Discussion

    Posted

    Civilization, Elite...

     

    And there was one of those $5 games I bought at an office supply place circa 1990-1991 that I can't remember the name of, but you were a guy in a colorful outfit with an astronaut-type helmet. It was a platformer... you had to run, jump and you fired little spheres as your weapon. Captain something?

     

    Anyone have any ideas?

    Selling my spare Incognito soon...

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted

     

    So this one your selling is ver1 of 3.. is there bugs or issues or things we can or cannot do vs version 3?

     

    I am very interested. I have my Atari800 which is my favorite atari.. and would love to use it if given the chance.

     

    James

     

    I honestly don't know. I have two Incognitos, neither one has been installed and I have never used one before. I am a fool when it comes to soldering, so a friend of mine was supposed to do it for me. It never happened, so I am parting with one of them. That's about all I can say about it, aside from what I have already posted.

     

    I'll make the post tomorrow night and will try to include a picture.

    Selling my spare Incognito soon...

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted · Edited by Muzz73

    I don't know which connector it is, to be honest. The person who sold it to me said that there was a connector of some sort that it didn't come with that plugs into the board (top?). That's all I know about it.

     

    Neither of my Incognitos are installed, so I will put them side by side and see if there's a difference.

     

    I'll try to post some pics with the Marketplace posting.

    Selling my spare Incognito soon...

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted

    Just a heads up to all.

     

    I believe it's from the first production run and needs to be assembled. I believe it needs the PBI connector as well. I bought it from another user on this forum who was kind enough to accommodate me, then Candle responded to me and sold me one from the third (last) run. I had originally bought an extra one for a friend, but he doesn't seem to be interested in it anymore. :-o

     

    I am not going to put this on eBay and watch people fight over it; I just want to sell it for the $150.00 USD (plus shipping) that I paid for it and I want it to go to someone who will use/enjoy it. I can even throw in the brand new 3GB Hitachi PATA CF micro drive that I had set aside for it, if the buyer would like it.

     

    So... how to determine to whom it will go? Simple. I will be posting the sale in the Marketplace on Saturday night (06/11/16). Post a PUBLIC reply to the Marketplace posting, expressing interest. I will wait two weeks (until 06/25/16), post a list in random order, each user name with a number assigned to it. One roll of the dice and we have a winner.

     

    I know this sounds overly complicated, but I want to be fair and honest about the entire process. I would like to keep everything public and no secrets, so offers sent via private message will not be accepted.

     

    Everyone cool with that? If not, please post. I will be open to suggestions until this Saturday night.

     

    Thanks!

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    New 400 owner - need power supply!

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted

    I would get ahold of Best Electronics or B&C Computervisions. They both carry NOS power supplies and in my experience, are both very helpful.

     

    A stock (18w) would be fine for a 400, but if you'd like something more heavy duty, you can use the 50w psu from an Atari floppy drive and it'll probably last you forever.

    New old stock 5 1/4" disks

    in Apple II Computers

    Posted

    I've read that you can even do it with most single sided disks as well...

     

    Because the single-sided Tandy drives used one side of the disk and the Apple ][ wrote to the other side, most companies made double-sided disks and just put single sided labels on them. This way, they didn't have to make platform-specific disks.

     

    In short, the differences between SSDD and DSDD was just the labeling and the guarantee.

     

    Can anyone verify this?

    Who's still interested in buying an Incognito for their 800?

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted

    I have two of them, neither one installed - one from the first run and one from the third. No need to go into why they aren't installed (too complicated), but I may part with one soon. I don't want to put it on ebay and make money off of someone, just break even... I would rather see it go to someone who will use it than to see it sit here, doing nothing (which should almost be criminal).

     

    I want to make sure that one of them is installed and running before I part with the other, so please be patient and I ask that no one send me private messages expressing interest just yet, as I have no idea how I am going to "put it out there" when the time comes.

     

    I just wanted everyone to have a decent "heads-up", so keep your eyes open. :)

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    How come there aren't any 5.25 external USB floppy drives?

    in Classic Computing Discussion

    Posted

    By the time USB became (for the most part) standardized, 3.5" floppy drives in were not particularly practical and 5.25" drives were long a thing of the past.

     

    I think, at least in part, it may also have something to do with modern machines not coming with a floppy disk controller built in. 3.5" USB drives have the control hardware in the drive itself and those probably do not support 5.25" drive mechanisms, so someone would have to design one (custom).

     

    While there will never be a big demand for a USB 5.25" FDD, I too am surprised that someone hasn't cooked something up, retro computing and software preservation being as popular as it is and all.

    • Like 4

    Mystery mod

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted · Edited by Muzz73

    My 800 also came with this mod. I never attempted to use it before switching the board out, but I do still have the old board. I don't have any pics handy either, but it looks to be wired directly to the SIO bus.

    Macintosh Plus

    in Classic Computing Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Muzz73

    You also might need to check the handshaking settings... the 8-pin mini DIN that they started using on the Mac Plus is a non-hardware handshaking serial port, so sometimes a non-hardware handshaking cable might be required for higher speeds. I seem to remember a buddy's girlfriend having an issue with that back in the day.

     

    Can anyone confirm this? I haven't had to deal with that issue in over 20 years! :-o

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