Ok, catch-up post, since the NIB 600XL. I opened the 600XL, verified it worked. Now need monitor kit and 64K (or more) upgrade! I like to take it out of the box and suck up the volatile organic compounds into my beak; I love the "smell of electronics" and if it's from a new Atari computer....particularly in 2012......all the better! Put that puppy back in the plastic and styrofoam, and preserve that delightful smell!!!!!
Ok, now, on to what junk I've acquired, since then.....annotated!
It is my intention to try out all 3 of the graphics pads.....Koala Pad, Atari Touch Tablet (have already but never tried), and Suncom Animation Station!
Not exactly Atari, but just an example to those of you who are considering the *expensive* "USB" mouse adapter for Atari ST and Amiga....that you can get MINT compatible mice for cheap. (I seriously suggest this model, and not experimenting.)
OK. I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING, and you're right. I totally overspent on this. I don't even know what I'm going to do with it. However, after spending $329.99 for one of these at retail in 1984 and wanting one but finding many pieces of shit on Ebay, I saw this "Buy It Now" and made an impulse buy, and wasn't sure I made a good move, but this REALLY is the genuine article, still wrapped, although the outer cardboard sleeve is gone. The drive really appears genuinely shrinkwrapped, with warranty card on top and the cardboard dividers (for storing floppies in the plastic case) wrapped. What the hell am I going to do with this? At least $150 2011 dollars is SIGNIFICANTLY LESS than $330 1984 dollars. I must think that, in order to feel better.
Nothing big here, but I really remember spending a lot of time, excited with this issue, because Atari computers finally (rarely) got some press, and the Atari 1040ST was a real milestone and price/performance salvo, fired in 1986. Sentimental memory: Flying to my grandmother's funeral (a long, long way from Anchorage) in 1986 the very month this issue was out, buying it in the newsstand at O'hare, and a minor bright spot on a sullen trip. It was also nice to get this mint for $4 (shipped) as opposed to the rip-off pricks always listing it.
I missed out on this era of Atari computing, and that's perhaps why I find intrigue in the STe. As Rybags said, it's kind of the "ST as it should have been." I meant to bid on Bryan's but I forgot and lost the auction. This was a NICE specimen, and the STe doesn't come up that often, hence the $100 high price.
I thought this wasn't a bad price, for a nice SF314. Bonus: came boxed, but no packing material......bubblewrap, but packed in the original box, and nice shape.
EDIT: IT WAS NOT $39 FOR SHIPPING; THAT WAS EXPEDITED WHICH WAS DEFAULT. IT WAS $15 FOR PARCEL POST, WHICH WAS SELECTABLE.
This was a spare, but came boxed. The 850 box is nothing to brag about, though. It's just a bland brown cardboard box. Still, a good price for a mint spare 850, complete. You should have seen how much the boxed original [model] 410 went for, that he was also selling. Not a price like this!!!! [could not find it, but it was well over $100 and it was NICE]
Beats nothing.
This Creative Computing was also one I remember well, from my formative years. The article on the 520ST (on the cover) was a nice piece, written by the late John J. Anderson. Anderson wrote the "Outpost: Atari" column, before handing it over to Arthur Leyenberger. It was a great walk down memory lane, about the underdog status of Atari computers, and as with the BYTE magazine above, a rare instance of some mainstream Atari coverage. As with the BYTE, this was mint condition, and not expensive like some of the Ebay pricks are asking. Bonus? Compute October 1985 with full 520ST review, and mint too!! Yee-ha!
Last year, I got a complete Sublogic Flight Simulator II for the 8-bit, and I really wanted one for the ST. When this program came out, it was really phenomenal and showed off ST potential. I love both versions, and they're both instrumental in my Atari memories. Very happy with this, and the 8-bit purchase of the same, earlier.
I can't bullshit you. I don't know squat about ML. I'd like to learn, although I seem to be forever challenged by retard high-level stuff. Still, it's hard to assemble an ST library of books. Quite simply, there does not exist 96 Atari ST Books in a torrent like with the 8-bit. One day (not soon) I may be willing to try to make one, if I could do it without destroying my books. This is a great book, however, and even at my cursory level of understanding, I really like the many sidebar articles that explain ST specifics that I can barely fathom.
Nice Koalapad that's boxed - and doesn't appear to have the shit scratched out of it - and does include stylus, but NO SOFTWARE. What was the software? Disk? Cartridge? Microillustrator, or some Koala-branded thing? Where to get? Maybe someday!!!
**AND FINALLY** This isn't Atari exactly, but the Epson printers I'm going to use these on certainly will be used with Atari!!! I love Epson FX-series (and RX) and these - common as feathers on a duck back in the day - are a bit rare now. Lucky strike to find them - I got 2 sets (for 8-bit and ST Epsons) and there are 2 left. Been searching for these for a while.
OK, thanks for reading. Make offer on anything......
Edited by wood_jl, Mon Feb 6, 2012 8:35 PM.
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MrFish, on Sat Feb 4, 2012 1:54 PM, said:
I was expecting more of a fight. They really are in prime condition. Now I just have to figure out what to do with all the extra pac-man/qix carts/instructions... birthday gifts for family?
