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SpaceBoy Full Member USA 631 Posts	Posted - 02 Mar 2003 : 20:30:21 Okay, so today my girlfriend Courtney and I went food shopping (Trader Joes= yum!), and, when we got back to her house, we decided to clean out the fridge, which has gotten... uh.... rank. Anyway, I took a big sack of rancid garbage out to the dumpster in front of her appartment, tossed it in, and as I was about to turn away, something caught my eye... I looked closer, and spotted, under a crap-load of nasty looking trash, a BIG flat box with an ATARI logo on it! Excited, I pulled it out, chased the roaches off (I'm hard-core, you see...), and opened the lid... to find a COMPLETE Atari 5200 set- complete with foam inserts, controller, manuals, AC pack/video converter, and a copy of Pac-Man, complete with box and manual! I've not been able to test it out yet, as the controller seems to be totally trashed, but the rest of the stuff looks pretty good. I can't wait to play this thing! So, the moral of this story is... always look in the trash! You never know what you'll find next! Oh, and, uh, don't let some roaches scare you away from a good find...... SpaceBoy Official MLA Raconteur AppleBASIC FOREVER! TiBook G4/500, "Difference Engine" PowerMac 6500/275 Performa 6400/180 3x PowerMac 7600/132 SE/30 32/250, "Wang" PB 1400/133 PB 180/33 PMac 7100/G3-266 Quadra 950, "HAL 9000" Newton 120, "PADD"
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 02 Mar 2003 : 20:44:54 fun fun! why does everyone else find cool NIB junk in the dumpster? .ME needs an ANS300 running rhapsody with an original apple studio display, being controlled by a prototype mouse and a complete Apple Adjustable keyboard...... THAT would be fun! Someday I'll have my 7300 with an Apple MultipleScan 15 running Rhapsody with a full NIB Apple Adjustable keyboard running... and... well I might have a working CSW 2200 eventually :P good find though Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 03 Mar 2003 : 07:00:24 If only I could get an Atari, my old one broke I have like 50 cartridges for it. I bet that Pac-Man Game Would go for like 100$ on ebay with all the manuals and such -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
Jobf Junior Member United Kingdom 162 Posts	Posted - 03 Mar 2003 : 07:21:29 5200 controllers were notorious for their poor quality and tendancy to break. Often you can fix them up however. Get yerself down to the 5200 section at www.atariage.com and check out the FAQ.
SpaceBoy Full Member USA 631 Posts	Posted - 03 Mar 2003 : 10:32:35 quote: 5200 controllers were notorious for their poor quality and tendancy to break. Often you can fix them up however. Get yerself down to the 5200 section at www.atariage.com and check out the FAQ Thanks for the great link- that's a really cool site. Thanks again! SpaceBoy Official MLA Raconteur AppleBASIC FOREVER! TiBook G4/500, "Difference Engine" PowerMac 6500/275 Performa 6400/180 3x PowerMac 7600/132 SE/30 32/250, "Wang" PB 1400/133 PB 180/33 PMac 7100/G3-266 Quadra 950, "HAL 9000" Newton 120, "PADD"
shaktiman Senior Member United Kingdom 1226 Posts	Posted - 03 Mar 2003 : 12:50:22 An Atari 5200 is a way cool find & you can fetch a bit of money for that, or you can play games on it which is great fun, cheap carts & easy to set-up. shaktiman Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive,3 monitors 15" & 14" & 14" os 8.1 , 12 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive Performa400(asleepintheattick)
boredomconquersall Full Member Canada 613 Posts	Posted - 03 Mar 2003 : 20:12:29 hey cats! you wanna sell ur old atari to me? I know it's broken, but the parts for those things go a dime a dozen now a days! ThnxnXN "what?!" 10000Th poster and 1000Th topic creator in lounge. and remember, if you try and install mac OS 10.2 on an early G3, you will go insane, and aquire a thirst for blood!
QuadraJets Junior Member USA 344 Posts	Posted - 03 Mar 2003 : 21:53:45 I used to have a pile of atari consoles, but in my early years of soldering, they became unfortunate PCB desoldering test subjects. I was only 8, so I didn't really know they were anything important. I think I killed at least a couple 2600's. We used to have 90-some game carts, but my idiot dad tossed them. Artillery Commander/Engineer, 68kMLA Liberated: LCII , III+, IIci, Q700, 800, and 840av, P550, 410 Contraband: Beige G3/300 MT o/c 400mhz, (2) 6100's Keeper of the 68kmla Hotline mirror server: 68k.dyndns.org
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 03 Mar 2003 : 23:35:17 I used to have an Atari 5200! Some lady at a grocery store was going to throw it away when my brother got her to give it to him. He ended up giving it to me, but I later paid him back by giving him my Intellivision. 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 My Site: http://cine.sytes.net My Hardware Page: http://cineware.sytes.net
Eft37 Junior Member USA 193 Posts	Posted - 04 Mar 2003 : 13:54:00 My brother in-law gave me a 2600 to sell for him on eBay, but he wanted $50 for it, and it didn't sell. I'll have to look in the box I threw it in to see what else there is with it, but if someone thinks it's worth $50 and wants it, drop me a line.
Alien Junior Member Netherlands 269 Posts	Posted - 05 Mar 2003 : 03:09:05 I have a 520ST, two 1040STs and a TT030. I still use the TT030 from time to time. Wonderful machine for its time. ,xtG .tsooJ -- RTFM

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