TI Related -- Ebay / Heads Up Notice

[+Ksarul]

13 minutes ago, OLD CS1 said:

While I seriously doubt they will get the 15 clams for it, I do wonder who won the sweepstakes and what happened to the equipment.

Now, if the auction included the system given out as a grand prize (with appropriate documentation to verify it), the whole shebang might actually get a bid closer to the asking price. . .

[+FarmerPotato]

@GDMike I smile to see this Kelloggs promotion.  It makes me wonder again about the memo I found, where General Mills asked if TI could make for them a Speak and Spell module.

 

 

[+dhe]

Not for me, but it's pretty kewl to see this stuff exists.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/401446584589

 

[+FarmerPotato]

North of Garland, TX (Dallas area).   Make offer:   P-box with disk/32K, original drive, 3 consoles, TI Logo. Speech.  Epson MX-80 Dot Matrix.

 

https://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/sys/d/sachse-texas-instruments-ti-994-and/7787621056.html

 

 

One Gamevision box in there:

 

[Gary from OPA]

1 minute ago, FarmerPotato said:

North of Garland, TX (Dallas area).   Make offer:   P-box with disk/32K, original drive, 3 consoles, TI Logo.

https://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/sys/d/sachse-texas-instruments-ti-994-and/7787621056.html

 

Nice for someone in the area. Sadly, here in Canada there never any nice big lots like that anymore. Just now and then a lonely pbox appears for around 600 bucks or a console for 150. Gone are the days of Canadian motherloads of equipment available at reasonable price.

[+OLD CS1]

1,000 Freedom Bucks ($800 + $200 shipping) for a collection of TI user group disks.  Yeah, this guy is living up to his handle. 😠

https://ebay.com/itm/276716003977

 

[+dhe]

4 hours ago, Gary from OPA said:

one are the days of Canadian motherloads of equipment available at reasonable price.

I remember going to a Fest in Cleveland in the late 90's and the good folks in the local UG who were hosting the fest, had picked up a pickup truck worth of TI equipment and pbox from some local schools. There where so many PBOX, people where pulling the backplanes to put in PC case. People took as many as they could fit in their cars. I remember other get together in the same TI frame with all kinds of stuff piled on "FREE" tables. yea, I miss those days!

[Gary from OPA]

1 hour ago, OLD CS1 said:

1,000 Freedom Bucks ($800 + $200 shipping) for a collection of TI user group disks.  Yeah, this guy is living up to his handle. 😠

https://ebay.com/itm/276716003977

 

If you add it to your watchlist you will get a 10% off offer for it bringing it down to $719.

 

This is the Bremerton, WA 99ers user group archive.

[+OLD CS1]

3 hours ago, Gary from OPA said:

If you add it to your watchlist you will get a 10% off offer for it bringing it down to $719.

I am holding back several f-bombs and I think it is giving me a migraine.

3 hours ago, Gary from OPA said:

This is the Bremerton, WA 99ers user group archive.

The aggravating part is people holding should like this know the only "value" such material has is in preservation.  If I am in the right directory on WHTech, then this group is missing from the public collection.  This is an attempt to fleece what is left of the community, on the edge of extortion: "pay up, suckers, or this stuff never sees the light of day."

 

[HOME AUTOMATION]

2 hours ago, OLD CS1 said:

If I am in the right directory on WHTech, then this group is missing from the public collection.

Found some different things...

 

EX-BASIC GAMES 1-10

TERRY/CHESS

DCLP ...DUMPIT, appears a few disks down, in the list.

[+OLD CS1]

21 minutes ago, HOME AUTOMATION said:

Found some different things...

So, there is apparently some over-lap with other user groups' collections.  That is good.  Maybe he can just set these on fire.

 

There was a guy in the Amiga scene who used to post up Amiga items, including some uncommon stuff for exorbitant prices, then threaten that if no one was going to buy them he would take them right to the dump.

[+FarmerPotato]

On eBay, ship from France:

 

This is a pin, showing a TI Travelmate laptop.  I played a lot of Ultima V on one of these Travelmates. 

 

 

US link:  https://www.ebay.com/itm/364839120476

 

Edited November 6 by FarmerPotato
Added Travelmate

[lhodapp]

What is the going rate of a console these days?  Last Saturday I picked one up at a Peddler's Mall that also included a speech synthesizer.  The asking price was $350 but I offered half, which is the lowest they can mark it down per store policy.  The seller accepted so I now have a second working console to play around with.

[Duewester]

1 hour ago, lhodapp said:

What is the going rate of a console these days?  Last Saturday I picked one up at a Peddler's Mall that also included a speech synthesizer.  The asking price was $350 but I offered half, which is the lowest they can mark it down per store policy.  The seller accepted so I now have a second working console to play around with.

That's pretty subjective in my opinion. A lot depends on what comes with it, condition, location of seller and buyers. I'm not adverse to non-working consoles as long as they look complete. I look on eBay for Free shipping and buy it now for $50 or less. The new video and keyboard replacement options usually end up making it reasonably easy to repair but too expensive to resell - at least in my opinion. For me at least, I just like seeing someone else's junk become a treasure again.

[lhodapp]

3 hours ago, Duewester said:

 For me at least, I just like seeing someone else's junk become a treasure again.

100%

[RickyDean]

I've picked up a couple of consoles the last year. Last one was NOS, and only 50.00. That's about the average I('d) pay for a working one. Of course what comes with it may raise my buying price some.

[InfernalKeith]

I just sold a tested console for $50 with box, manuals, power supply, and two carts and it took a month to move.  Speech Synths have been creeping up in value a little bit along with everything else, I think the last one of those I sold went for $40.  If I find myself with a couple wonky consoles I sometimes try to sell them as a lot of 3-4 for cheap just to clear the shelf space, because I know I'll never get around to fixing them.

[+FarmerPotato]

On 11/1/2024 at 9:48 AM, Gary from OPA said:

Someone keeps buying up the various lots of TI99 floppy collections and here is another one that is available, most of the disks seem to be from MATIUG.

 

Hopefully, whomever is buying up these lots are going to the trouble of archiving them and will share anything not available currently in our existing archives.

 

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/356200664603

 

I messaged the seller to say that the price was too high. 

 

@Opry99er  lent me the entire MATIUG library at a TI Faire ~2019.   The first 200 MATIUG disks are digitized and zipped up somewhere on whtech.com.  I returned the rest before I went home.   I need to get in contact with Owen to see about the remainder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[+Ksarul]

4 hours ago, FarmerPotato said:

 

I messaged the seller to say that the price was too high. 

 

@Opry99er  lent me the entire MATIUG library at a TI Faire ~2019.   The first 200 MATIUG disks are digitized and zipped up somewhere on whtech.com.  I returned the rest before I went home.   I need to get in contact with Owen to see about the remainder.

Note, based on a recent posting I saw from our buddy Owen, he did some damage to a couple of vertebrae recently and is currently recovering. So far, it looks like he may return to normal. . .

[InfernalKeith]

19 hours ago, FarmerPotato said:

 

I messaged the seller to say that the price was too high. 

 

@Opry99er  lent me the entire MATIUG library at a TI Faire ~2019.   The first 200 MATIUG disks are digitized and zipped up somewhere on whtech.com.  I returned the rest before I went home.   I need to get in contact with Owen to see about the remainder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I may have those disks.  I bought a bunch of Owen's miscellaneous hardware and carts a couple years ago, and took a day trip out to Wisconsin to pick them up.  He handed me this box of disks last minute, as I was leaving.  I have yet to check the condition of readibility of any of them (I've been focused on archiving stockpiles of old cassettes and trying to finish that project).  I can take a look this weekend, see what disks I have, and read a few to make sure they're working, and shoot you a message.

 

If I have a pile of them that aren't yet saved, I'd be happy to send them to you to make sure they're properly archived.

 

[+FarmerPotato]

On 11/8/2024 at 8:54 AM, InfernalKeith said:

I may have those disks.  I bought a bunch of Owen's miscellaneous hardware and carts a couple years ago, and took a day trip out to Wisconsin to pick them up.  He handed me this box of disks last minute, as I was leaving.  I have yet to check the condition of readibility of any of them (I've been focused on archiving stockpiles of old cassettes and trying to finish that project).  I can take a look this weekend, see what disks I have, and read a few to make sure they're working, and shoot you a message.

 

If I have a pile of them that aren't yet saved, I'd be happy to send them to you to make sure they're properly archived.

 

Sure! Thanks. It was a series of boxes of disks  all labeled MATIUG. About 300 in three boxes. 

[Gary from OPA]

Original TI disk controller sidecar and original external floppy drive.

 

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/116392313313

 

[+Ksarul]

2 hours ago, Gary from OPA said:

Original TI disk controller sidecar and original external floppy drive.

 

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/116392313313

 

Note that there is an issue with the drive. The timing wheel plate normally attached to the larger drive wheel is floating loose in the drive housing. That could lead to some interesting electrical problems if it moves to the wrong spot--and where it is now, it has a reasonable possibility of damaging the drive belt (which is also probably in need of replacement at over 40 years of age).

[Stuart]

5 hours ago, Ksarul said:

Note that there is an issue with the drive. The timing wheel plate normally attached to the larger drive wheel is floating loose in the drive housing. That could lead to some interesting electrical problems if it moves to the wrong spot--and where it is now, it has a reasonable possibility of damaging the drive belt (which is also probably in need of replacement at over 40 years of age).

Is that not just the strobe mark paper sticker that has come loose? So no electrical problem, but could as you say get caught in the belt?

[+Ksarul]

9 hours ago, Stuart said:

Is that not just the strobe mark paper sticker that has come loose? So no electrical problem, but could as you say get caught in the belt?

The strobe sticker on MPI-51s is usually made out of a thin, sticky-back aluminum sheet, not paper. That gives it the right reflectivity for the strobe.