Quote from: bias on September 29, 2017, 11:05:09 PM

I didnt want to sound hostile but you must realize that we hear and see,too much ppl saying things just for saying them.
Indeed you have a very big collection with items that catch my eye for sure as i like oldware like you do.
To be honest when i saw your pics, i thought that i was in one of the "Back to the future" movies! Grin

Unfortunately i'm not living in US to arrange a meeting and take some of your stuff,if not all. Still i imagine that the price for all will be "spicy"...
Some of them looking like brand new and i like to ask if working properly or maybe you have made any test to see their funcionality.
Anyways i wish i can get some but as i say it will cost me a small fortune with the customs fees,shipping etc,as i am not in US.

Good luck to this sale of yours and again i'm sorry if i sound and act a bit weird... Cool

Very cool of you to respond. Thanks for checking out the pictures! Lol - the Back to the Future reference was good!

As to what works and what doesn't...

Believe it or not, a lot of it works! Haha - I haven't tested tested some of the stuff in many, many years - specifically I'm talking about the Colocovision, Intellivision, Magnavox Odyssey, and Turbo Grafx16 systems and their associated games and joysticks. Last time I plugged them all in, they all worked but that was probably 15 years ago now. I just recently plugged in the Atari 7800 and it worked perfectly. I should test some of the 8-bit NES stuff just for the fun of it. I haven't played an original NES game in quite some time!

With regard to the computers and parts - most of the PC desktops, laptops, and servers work. The only exception would be if one of the cases didn't have a motherboard installed or something silly like that. And, I think I ran across an old custom-built 486 machine a while back that seems to have a dead front power switch. The old Macs are tougher for me to say because I'd need to order a bunch of CMOS batteries and put drives in them to test them. I know at least some of them powered right up the last time I checked. I specifically remember the G3 desktops powering up, as well as all three original iMacs, the Mac Plus (surprise), the WorkGroup servers (all 3 of them), the PowerMac 6500/225, the PowerMac 9650/350, and several of the others. The Amiga 1200 and Amiga 500 both work fine and so does the Commodore VIC20, the 128, the 128D, and all the external Commodore and Amiga drives. As to the various other random countless hard drives, keyboards, cables, external SCSI cases etc...to be honest, I've lost track of what works and what doesn't. If I remember right, most of the external SCSI drives work (hard drive, tape, floptical, Bernoulli, zip, CD, and floppy). The internal hard drives are a different story. I honestly don't know which work and which don't. I have some really cool drives though. We're talking OLD drives like very early pre-IDE Seagate and Winchester MLM stuff!

Too bad you aren't closer because it sounds like you'd enjoy getting your hands on some of this gear! And yes, if somebody were to want to take everything, they would get a stupid good deal because my wife wants it all gone. Apparently it's time for us to "downsize"...or so she says. :-)

To those of you who might be in Southern CA and you think this stuff sounds pretty cool, send me message and let's arrange for a time when you can come over and take a closer look!

Aaron

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