rarest computers

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:53:21AM -0400, chris wrote: We had one of those when I was a kid that died about the time I was getting into Commodore hardware (c. 1980). I chopped up one of the controller cables and turned it into a User Port -> Centronics Printer cable, and turned one of the game carts into a VIC-20 cartridge port extender (44 pin, 0.154" spacing edge connector). Sounds terrible now, of course, but ~25 years ago, it was just a pile of junk. I'm sure with what I know now I could have fixed it. The good news is that a few years after that one died, my high-school girlfriend's Dad was going to throw out their Odyssey 1 while I was over visiting, and I managed to score it from him. My only complaint with it is that when I was growing up, we never had the right sized television for either set of overlays. We always had whatever size came in between. When other, more dedicated machines came out in the late 1970s, we put the thing on the shelf and played the ones that generated their own B&W background. The one we played the most and the one that I'd like to find again was the Coleco Combat console - two players, tank controllers, and 3 or 4 built-in games. I fixed that one multiple times (mechanical switch and controller issues) before it died after years of abuse in a house with four boys. All of those TV-based games fell by the wayside at my house when hand-helds hit the scene... we had boxes of them... I was away from home when my father cleaned house. :-( -ethan -- Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 03-Aug-2004 22:20 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -71.5 F (-57.5 C) Windchill -118.5 F (-83.59 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 20.3 kts Grid 031 Barometer 666.3 mb (11147. ft) Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html