XC-12 data recorder - how rare?

[Scream And Fly]

I just scored a new-in-box Atari XC-12, but I've never seen one of these, even back when the Atari computers were popular. How rare are these in the states?

 

Thanks!

[+Philsan]

You can buy it new in various stores...

[Tempest]

The XC-12 isn't all that rare, as it was widely sold in Europe. The XC-11 is much rarer (it took me forever to get a boxed one).

 

Tempest

[carmel_andrews]

Didn't think tape drives did that well in the US...as 95 p/c of US software was disk based and most of the remainder was rom cartridge (if memory recall's)

 

Perhaps scream and fly want's to play some UK or european tape games (there are quite a few)

[Urchlay]

Didn't think tape drives did that well in the US...as 95 p/c of US software was disk based and most of the remainder was rom cartridge (if memory recall's)

 

There were tons of 410 and 1010 tape drives sold in the US, but by the time the XC11/XC12 came out, disk drives had gotten cheap enough (and few/no tape games were being released) that nobody in the US bought the XC11/XC12... I've never seen one in person, even...

[carmel_andrews]

I did have an xc11 twice and an xc12 twice (if memory recalls they were basically xe versions of the 410/1010 deal but they didn't last very long...typical tramiel cheap build quality)

 

I recall that Phonemark did something very similar to the xc11 (i think) a few years earlier as i owned one ('twas a combo Cbm64/Atari tape drive)

 

 

 

Not surprising about the price of atari disk drives in the US... If memory recalls the 810 was originally advertised at neaerly 300USD...Ten years later you could probably pick up a brand new STFM with built in disk drive for the same price

Edited January 14, 2008 by carmel_andrews

[mimo]

I got 3, seems like they come with everything I buy, a bit like that @@LOOK RARE@@ Pac Man cart that comes with every 2600