Today I went on a 6 hour round-trip drive through nasty rain and wind to rescue a part of an about-to-be-scrapped collection.
From the haul:
The stuffed back of the minivan. I could have packed more, but there wouldn't have been anyplace to unpack it to.
A reasonably complete Oddesey.
A boxed and complete Laser 50 (whatever that is.)
An early Fairchild game system.
A large box of Atari 2600 carts.
And a couple of 2600s to play them on.
An Atari XE game system.
A Kaypro IV in a Kaypro bag (the bag needs a bath.)
A boxed CoCo with boxed drive.
An Amiga 2000 with SW, docs, etc. (Missing a key on the keyboard.)
A big bin of software and docs for an IBM PC.
And the PC itself with CGA and keyboard - dirty, but intact and supposedly working.
A Tandy pocket PC.
A Mod 4 with docs and sw.
A bagged Mac SE with other bits.
And this nixie-tube looking beast. In the end-on view you can see how it's set up to display one of 10 digits. It's attached to some kind of old card.
There were a few other items in the haul, but these were the highlights.
Left behind:
A nice Ace 1000 with Ace10 disk drive, docs and some SW.
A Tandy 4P
Any number of toaster Macs from 512s to color classics.
A bunch of later Macs, Mac IIs and so on.
A bunch of Apple //GS systems.
Another CGA display.
An oddball 386SX all-in-a-keyboard system.
A couple of TRS-80 1000s.
Some 286 and 386 systems.
A couple of older Mac laptops (Powerbooks.)
And probably a few things I'm forgetting.
Some (most) of this stuff is available. I especially want to get rid of the PC, the Kaypro and some of the other bulky stuff, preferably to local folks.
Keeping it from the landfill was my primary goal. Getting it clear of the house and recouping my costs (I did pay a bit for this) is secondary.
From the haul:
The stuffed back of the minivan. I could have packed more, but there wouldn't have been anyplace to unpack it to.
A reasonably complete Oddesey.
A boxed and complete Laser 50 (whatever that is.)
An early Fairchild game system.
A large box of Atari 2600 carts.
And a couple of 2600s to play them on.
An Atari XE game system.
A Kaypro IV in a Kaypro bag (the bag needs a bath.)
A boxed CoCo with boxed drive.
An Amiga 2000 with SW, docs, etc. (Missing a key on the keyboard.)
A big bin of software and docs for an IBM PC.
And the PC itself with CGA and keyboard - dirty, but intact and supposedly working.
A Tandy pocket PC.
A Mod 4 with docs and sw.
A bagged Mac SE with other bits.
And this nixie-tube looking beast. In the end-on view you can see how it's set up to display one of 10 digits. It's attached to some kind of old card.
There were a few other items in the haul, but these were the highlights.
Left behind:
A nice Ace 1000 with Ace10 disk drive, docs and some SW.
A Tandy 4P
Any number of toaster Macs from 512s to color classics.
A bunch of later Macs, Mac IIs and so on.
A bunch of Apple //GS systems.
Another CGA display.
An oddball 386SX all-in-a-keyboard system.
A couple of TRS-80 1000s.
Some 286 and 386 systems.
A couple of older Mac laptops (Powerbooks.)
And probably a few things I'm forgetting.
Some (most) of this stuff is available. I especially want to get rid of the PC, the Kaypro and some of the other bulky stuff, preferably to local folks.
Keeping it from the landfill was my primary goal. Getting it clear of the house and recouping my costs (I did pay a bit for this) is secondary.
