Hey Marvin:
I was wondering if any of your recent Atari acquisitions are for sale. I
am especially interested on a good deal on a drive and some software...
PLEASE let me know..
CORD
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On Wed, 31 Dec 1969, Marvin wrote:
I went to the TRW Swap Meet today down in Los Angeles
and managed to get
a few things. A guy was selling a fairly complete Aquarius that
included the cassette recorder, printer/plotter, expansion chassis, a
32K expansion unit, some games, and documentation. He was asking $25
but took $20 for the lot. Also picked up an Epson PX-8 portable and an
NEC 8201 portable (sure hope those numbers are correct as I am going
from memory) for $25 lot. The "best" deal was a guy walking around with
a sign that said "Free Atari". Of course, that got my attention and I
picked the 5 boxes of stuff up. Haven't checked it all out yet, but
there were supposed to be three Atari 400 computers, Three disk drive
units, an 850 interface, a modem, docs, and some other stuff. Saw a guy
offering S-100 cards (mostly memory and HD cards) at $5 each. When I
asked why he was asking so much, he replied they weren't for sale. I
hadn't heard of the manufacturer of those particular cards, and figured
if schematics were available, they might be worth what he was asking.
I met a friend of mine whom I hadn't seen for about a year. Turns out
he built one of the Altair computers I have and was one of the first
factory reps for Vector Graphic. Apparently among the many people he
called on was a place up around Berkeley with a name like Kentucky Fried
Computers (or something similar) and that was where Northstar Computers
got started. Apparently, he has some of the early SCCS stuff along with
most of the Vector Graphic docs, etc. so with any luck, I'll end up with
that stuff too.