26 Jun
1998
26 Jun
'98
3:02 a.m.
On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Van Burnham wrote:
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Wow! Nice (simple) Odyssey page. I, too, have one. It's not the
original one my family had in 197x; that one got cannibalized when
I was a teenager for the parts. One of the program cards got chopped
and soldered to the connector for a 44-pin VIC-20 bus extender (yes,
the cards are the same pin cound and spacing). A controller cable
got a new lease on life as a C-64 printer cable (user-port to centronics
connector). We used to play that thing for hours and hours. My
biggest complaint was that the overlays came in small and large, but we
had a "medium" TV. My favorite was the sub hunt, followed by the
haunted house.
-ethan
quoting actual bids? Recently, in a so-called
"silent" email auction...I
bid $275 for a non-working Odyssey 1 (IMHO a very fair and reasonably high
bid)...
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Check http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/Odyssey/Odyssey.html and if
that's the machine you're talking about, I guess I am a very lucky being.
I knew it was early and cool, and probably worth something, but not that
people would bid hundreds of dollars for broken units!