+kheller2 Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 On 10/5/2017 at 2:52 PM, kheller2 said: Pilot Unit DA000231 Obtained. Its filthy. And this is after a quick rub down with Clorox wipes. There are bugs living in it... it will be a nice restoration project. Plastic is all smooth, and no lettering on the ports. Plastic is heavily scraped and cut in the upper right corner. The silver metal is heavily stained and scratched, the pictures make it look better than it really is. I have no idea if it works. I will completely tear it down and clean it before even attempting to power it on. The green "10 13" sticker just fell out of the unit, I'm assuming it was stuck to the exposed EPROM. Nothing magical about the OS PROMS, they are stock version 10. MD5 (1200XL10U12.BIN) = e19eb62ef554df174766c71c029021dd MD5 (1200XL10U13.BIN) = 8b47c75e3e07b2f499c713fd57a2eede Combined: e3e8c74bfe1dcd6b56af50bd9a82dc15 Note to self: eBay has an actual 83S DA 000231 113 unit vs the Pilot 83S DA000231 (432) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepthaw Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 I’ve officially joined the family. 72R DA 06713 183 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hueyjones70 Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 83S DA000588 113 I have it for sale on ebay. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaibitgfx Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 (edited) Edited May 4 by khaibitgfx 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 2 hours ago, khaibitgfx said: Is there an ink stamp of "203" on the sticker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 38 minutes ago, kheller2 said: Is there an ink stamp of "203" on the sticker? What's the significance ? Mine has "253". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 Week 25 of 1983. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaibitgfx Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 I will check and see, currently away from where everything is stored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodoreDecker Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 (edited) On 4/3/2024 at 10:18 PM, hueyjones70 said: 83S DA000588 113 I have it for sale on ebay. Congrats to the winner! (I'd placed a bid (low #s are cool) but lost out... ) Edited May 5 by CommodoreDecker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaibitgfx Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Mine is 203 and I wrote it down on my sleeve, any significance to the 203? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaibitgfx Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Not that matters but many eons ago I ordered an Atari 800 motherboard, it came in a thick plastic bag and what I assume an extra sticker for the computer it would of went inside of, are these things rare? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaibitgfx Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 According to the Internet there were 110,000 made, not alot really, even though this computer offered nothing new worth mentioning in regards to the earlier models, it is a nice looking computer. HOW ILLOGICAL AS SPOCK WOULD DAY... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 3 hours ago, khaibitgfx said: even though this computer offered nothing new worth mentioning in regards to the earlier models leaps and bounds over the old models. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaibitgfx Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 (edited) Perhaps you can do a comparison of the 800xl vs 1200xl. Edited May 7 by khaibitgfx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 3 hours ago, khaibitgfx said: Perhaps you can do a comparison of the 800xl vs 1200xl. you said: " even though this computer offered nothing new worth mentioning in regards to the earlier models " So that is what I was replying too. AFAIK, and unless I'm a total potato, the 800XL came after the 1200XL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaibitgfx Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 When I was a kid I got an Atari 800xl, never knew there was even a 1200, in the 90s I seen a 1200 for sale and bought it assuming it came after 800xl. What ya gonna do? The 1200xl never seen much use mostly because i had both the Amiga 500 and the Atari st, and the rest is history. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hueyjones70 Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 On 5/5/2024 at 10:27 AM, khaibitgfx said: Mine is 203 and I wrote it down on my sleeve, any significance to the 203? The 203 indicates that the computer was manufactured in the 20th week of 1983. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaibitgfx Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 The digital twilight zone... Like alot of my computers, the 1200XL has never been turned on, my 400, 800, 130XE, Commodore 128, 128D, IBM AT, COCO3, and few others have never actually been used, they have been opened up, photographed but never actually used. They sit in a cold storage room and been there for eons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaibitgfx Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 The digital twilight zone... Like alot of my computers, the 1200XL has never been turned on, my 400, 800, 130XE, Commodore 128, 128D, IBM AT, COCO3, and few others have never actually been used, they have been opened up, photographed but never actually used. They sit in a cold storage room and been there for eons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caterpiggle Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 Hello kheller2, Can you tell me if 50th week would means last week of December ? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted June 1 Author Share Posted June 1 1 hour ago, Caterpiggle said: Hello kheller2, Can you tell me if 50th week would means last week of December ? Thank you. 50th would be 12-Dec-83 to 18-Dec-83, but keep in mind no 1200XL is going to have that week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caterpiggle Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 Please pardon me, kheller2, I forget to added "84", not 83. No, it is not for Atari 1200XL computer , it is for non-Atari 8 bit computer, sir. So it is between Dec. 12th to Dec. 18th, 1984, right ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted June 30 Author Share Posted June 30 The amount of new serial number 1200XLs that are showing up on eBay and elsewhere is pretty amazing. Right now we have 673 units listed in the database. I wasn't sure we'd make it to 500. Now I'm looking for that 1000 count! "Keep it comin' love Keep it comin' love Don't stop it now, don't stop it no Don't stop it now, don't stop it" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hueyjones70 Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 (edited) I am now the owner of 83S DA004807 103. It is the only one I have. I decided to put the rest into circulation. I figured that when I pass on, none of my children would want to bother with my Atari collection and they would likely end up in the landfill. Edited July 1 by hueyjones70 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariusz Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 Freshly baked 1200XL from my collection. 72R DA 26486 263 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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