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Article #329Re: Coco stuff for sale in Orlando, FL (C3, CM8, FD501, mouse, etc.)
From: james
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:29
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:29
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Jeff I live in central Florida. I am most interested in the Coco3, mouse and hardware and drive. I am not so interested in the monitor. james On 4 Apr 2005 13:36:47 -0700, trapenator@gmail.com wrote: >James, > >I'd be very willing to just give it all to you. I didn't even see your >reply until today. I was close to junking it all. If I could figure >out how to get it to you. I don't have the original box for the >monitor so I don't know how I could ship it easily. Any suggestions? > >Thanks, >Jeff > >james wrote: >> On 8 Mar 2005 15:50:51 -0800, trapenator@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >Hey folks. I have a (possibly dead) Coco3 for sale. By possibly >dead >> >I mean sometimes it boots up and goes to the BASIC prompt, but more >> >often than not it just displays a bunch of garbage on the screen. I >> >has been sitting in my closet for 15+ years. >> > >> >The Tandy CM8 monitor seems to work, but the flippy cover that goes >> >over the controls in front is long gone. Also, the plug that goes >into >> >the Coco is a little scraped up - maybe a loose wire is causing the >> >display to go funky? >> > >> >I also have a single disk FD501 drive. No idea if it works as the >> >controller pack is long gone. >> > >> >I also have the official Tandy mouse, with Colorware hi-res adapater >(I >> >can't even remember what that was for). >> > >> >So - any advice on what I should do with this stuff? Considering >that >> >the Coco itself isn't too healthy I don't want to list this stuff on >> >ebay. Do they even sell on there? It seems like the shipping would >be >> >real expensive. The CM8 weighs a ton. I'm close to chucking all of >> >this stuff in the dumpster but I'd rather see it in the hands of a >> >collector/enthusiast. >> > >> >- Jeff >> >(trapenator@gmail.com) >> ******* >> >> Jeff >> >> >> Before you chunk it into the garbage, I would like to have crack at >> it. >> >> Yes there is still a market for Coco stuff on EBAY. >> >> james
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X-Google-Thread: 110568,6ee80183924a0ed6 X-Google-Attributes: gid110568,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!913ebda8!not-for-mail From: james <george@washington.edu> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.coco Subject: Re: Coco stuff for sale in Orlando, FL (C3, CM8, FD501, mouse, etc.) Reply-To: beerkeg@budu.edu Message-ID: <ubj351l10fd9l1p8nlfmjcj7dob4fgo759@4ax.com> References: <1110325851.196350.81440@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <mccu319kj72luo8q8jh79d22euhjfj5k46@4ax.com> <1112647007.125320.142080@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 66 Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:29:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.3.47.65 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1112657391 69.3.47.65 (Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:29:51 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:29:51 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net