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California Free: Vintage Computer Collection to Give Away (SF Bay Area)

Covers: California
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Closest Major City
San Francisco
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Local Pickup Only
I am moving and won't have the space or the time to store and restore some of my vintage computers and game consoles, so I am giving them away to other collectors. Please see the pictures below. Most of them don't power up, but they are in good cosmetic condition, so they are suitable for museum display as-is. If you can spend some time and effort, you will likely be able to restore them to full working order, as none of them have been cannibalized for parts.

Here's what you are getting...
  • Commodore Pet (powers on, but some keys don't work)
  • Osborne 1
  • 2 Kaypro IIs
  • Kaypro 4
  • Morrow Designs Micro Decision with WYSE terminal (powers on)
  • 2 Epson HX-20s
  • Epson PX-8
  • Mac 512K
  • Apple IIe with 2 drives
  • Atari 400
  • Atari 800
  • Atari 2600
  • Atari 5200
  • Magnavox Odyssey 2 (powers on)
Here are the rules:
  1. They are free.
  2. You must pick them up from the San Francisco Bay Area (East Bay) before the end of November. No shipping.
  3. No pick and choose. They go as one collection, and you must take them all.
  4. First-come, first-served in order of when you contact me. If you don't pick up as agreed, then I will move down to the next interested person on the list.
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I'd love an Atari 800 and maybe a Kaypro, but I definitely do not have room in my life or my garage for the whole set. (If I had staging room I'd consider getting them and then reposting the rest piecemeal for free to good home, but I don't have the room nor the truck.)
 
I have the room and time to debug them. .. at least at the moment. I live next door to the OP and can pick it all up anytime.
 
@wowbobwow Do you still want the Odyssey? Or anyone else? It does not work 100% at the moment...

I believe I have it debugged down to the Color Encoder chip (IC1-612160). Video is definitely going into the chip, but nothing comes out to the RF modulator. I believe the CPU and the rest of the logic is working as I can see audio being generated on an oscilloscope when the Odyssey is powered up with a cartridge installed. I also routed a composite test signal through the machine's RF modulator successfully. I think the only issue with the Odyssey is this encoder chip (which may be unobtanium).

If you want it, let me know. Please note that I clipped a number of passives in the video section to help isolate/confirm the encoder chip so you will need to solder them back down at the time you swap out this chip.


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