MY LATEST THRIFT FIND

[ANTHONY ATARI]

Yesterday I got to buy some classic stuff at a thrift shop. I paid 10 bucks and got:

 

1 mint condition Tandy deluxe joystick (in box w/ instruction)

1 pretty good condition Tandy deluxe joystick

 

(both work very nice on my COCO)

 

2 heavy duty disk drives for the big old 5 1/4" floppies.

unfortunately, I dont have the special adaptor that plugs into the cart. slot, though. This means I cant hook the drives up to the COCO

 

The joystick that came in the box still has it's original $22 Radio Shack price tag on it. Yes it would cost $45 bucks to buy this pair new in the 80s!

 

I also got some 5-1/4 floppy software, but without the adapter thing, I cant play with them yet.

 

Maybe it's not the coolest find in the world, but its better than nothing

[AtariLeaf]

You might be able to find a floppy controller here:

http://www.cloud9tech.com/

 

They may be a bit pricey so of course there's always ebay but it may be hard to find one there without finding it in a bundle of other hardware. They usually come with the disk drive.

[ANTHONY ATARI]

Thanks for the link

[ANTHONY ATARI]

A few years ago, there were loads of COCO carts at a local thrift shop. Back then, for some reason i only wanted to collect for the 2600, and passed up all sorts of carts for other systems, including coco carts, Texas instruments carts, Atari computer carts, and others. Now I wish i had bought them.

In addition, I once bought BUGS for the 2600, thought the game sucked, and the next day returned it to the thrift shop for a refund.

 

Doh!