Bryan Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 eBay Auction -- Item Number: 280574119132 It looks like this auction has early promotional materials in it. I'd be willing to chip in to liberate these docs, but $250 is more than I can swing for the whole thing right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 (edited) Unless i need glasses the bloke does'nt have a 1050 for sale, that is clearly an 810, perhaps someone should correct him on it Edited October 11, 2010 by carmel_andrews Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldAtarian Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 (edited) Well, I have two copies of De Re Atari (excellent reference source) which isn't common but not difficult to find, either. Is the other one marked confidential the Technical Reference Notes? The technical reference notes aren't that hard to find with a blue cover page. I also have those. What would interest me more is who owned this machine in the past that they would have documents marked confidential with it? Possibly someone who wrote some program(s) that were commercially released? Maybe it's part of the developers package. If this machine belonged to a developer, what sort of custom boards might be lurking under the cover of that 800? Edited October 11, 2010 by OldAtarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivop Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 What would interest me more is who owned this machine in the past that they would have documents marked confidential with it? Possibly someone who wrote some program(s) that were commercially released? Maybe it's part of the developers package. If this machine belonged to a developer, what sort of custom boards might be lurking under the cover of that 800? It looks like they are all photocopies. I have a bunch of such photocopies, too. A lot of them marked confidential and I was definitely not someone who wrote programs that were commercially released Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hunmanik Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 (edited) Well, they might be photocopies, but those things marked "confidential" and/or "preliminary" are documents I haven't seen before. If somebody here does spend the bucks, I do hope they end up getting scanned and shared, I'd be very interested in seeing them. I don't plan on putting up funds for this, so good luck to anyone who does! Edited October 12, 2010 by hunmanik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldAtarian Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Sold for $175. Which one of you was it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 It looks like some kind of developer conference notes... still too rich for my blood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divya16 Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Maybe good for some archives but not for the common user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Maybe good for some archives but not for the common user. Who you calling common Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted October 12, 2010 Author Share Posted October 12, 2010 I won it. I was negotiating with the seller to get copies of the documents, but he said it would end up costing around $100 so I decided to make an offer on the whole thing. Anyone know a good utility for scanning to PDF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Hope it's got some stuff in there to make it worthwhile. Fairly sure some of the tech docs for the chipset (that we have PDFs of) had the odd page in them that had the similar "internal use only" types of stamps on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted October 12, 2010 Author Share Posted October 12, 2010 Yeah me too. Some of it appears to be preliminary so it might be interesting for historical purposes even if there's nothing really informative. He said there's over 500 pages of stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divya16 Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Maybe good for some archives but not for the common user. Who you calling common Even for the computer, if it has a CTIA chip and 8K/16K instead of GTIA and 48K, it wouldn't be for the common user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted October 18, 2010 Author Share Posted October 18, 2010 Well, I got the stuff and the documents are certainly interesting. They are definitely part of an early developer package and contain several utility source listings and tutorials. Some parts are out of order and will take a little while to sort out. There are over 500 pages to go through. The 800 and 810 were heavily damaged, though, as the shipper put them in the box with no padding of any kind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldAtarian Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Well, I got the stuff and the documents are certainly interesting. They are definitely part of an early developer package and contain several utility source listings and tutorials. Some parts are out of order and will take a little while to sort out. There are over 500 pages to go through. The 800 and 810 were heavily damaged, though, as the shipper put them in the box with no padding of any kind. Any interesting expansion cards inside the 800? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted October 18, 2010 Author Share Posted October 18, 2010 (edited) It has a Axlon RAMCRAM 32K card, and I confirmed it has a GTIA. What's interesting, is that I've never seen an 800 with these kinds of markings: ATARI / 052 (stamped in silver) G 16K 052 7065 G 145 AW206775-16 1/20 L40 P The 810's serial number is simply Z 47438. Edited October 18, 2010 by Bryan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fibrewire Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 I just got a silver stamped Atari 800 as well, and the numbers on the bottom leads me to believe it was one of the early 16K with a CTIA instead of GTIA. I'll disassemble mine and see if this is what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 POKE 623,64 will instantly answer the GTIA question. Maybe the serial # will give some clue to the build date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClausB Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Well, I got the stuff and the documents are certainly interesting. They are definitely part of an early developer package and contain several utility source listings and tutorials. Some parts are out of order and will take a little while to sort out. There are over 500 pages to go through. Did you ever scan and post any of the documents? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fibrewire Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 I'd like to see the source listings as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeventura Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 I won it. I was negotiating with the seller to get copies of the documents, but he said it would end up costing around $100 so I decided to make an offer on the whole thing. Anyone know a good utility for scanning to PDF? I have a professional copier that would turn a 175 page binder into a PDF in about 20 minutes. I am in Texas. PM me if interested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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