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Bolkonskij
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on: April 11, 2024, 12:16
... thought I'd set up this thread for posting about interesting (and maybe not so interesting) things that we've found at local Good Will stores, Red Cross stores, flea markets and the likes. Not neccessarily System 7 related ;-) Our local one rarely has any computer and electronics hardware, and even thought a Dell Windows XP PC somehow made it in, I've yesterday found this interesting piece of hardware. http://revontulet.org/2024/04/11/567cf647b7614da4ac793ed6269fcb9d.jpg It's one of those handheld games that you'd see during the 80's here, way before any Game Boy appeared. Apparently it's a Golf game, produced by Bandai Electronics with no date given on the case. it does have a certain 80's look to it though and reveals it was produced in Taiwan, Republic of China. I haven't been able to test it, since it takes one of those block batteries and we didn't have one at home, so it'll have to wait until tomorrow when we're heading out for the groceries again. Oh and I paid 50 cents for it because nobody in that store could make anything of it. Looking forward to see if it still works after all those years. |
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wove
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1024 MB  Posts: 1363
Reply #1 on: April 11, 2024, 16:01
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On the Saturday before Easter, I accompanied my son to an estate sale. He was interested in some kitchen equipment and I was just along for the ride. I did find "Misc Box #4" interesting and bid on it and got it for $15. The box had an Apple TimeCapsule and a 3rd gen Apple TV. Not really classic, but considered obsolete by Apple. The TimeCapsule is a real jewel of a device. It is a combo router, wireless base station, and NAS. I pressed it into service right away. Both my wife's and my Macs automatically backup to the device via TimeMachine, and we can easily send files back and forth. Setting it up as a separate network means it is not accessible from outside networks (internet). The Apple TV is less useful, but it does let me stream my media from computer to TV. The box also contained candles and a clock. The lady I was bidding against only wanted the candles, which I sold to her recouping some of $15 cost. My son though the brass mantle clock was very nice and I gave it to him.
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ShinobiKenobi
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256 MB Posts: 362 System 7 fan
Reply #2 on: April 11, 2024, 21:54
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@Bolkonskij That's really awesome! What a great find. That's definitely vintage. My parents have a game like that of similar style and era, although probably older. It's a baseball game. It has discrete LEDs to indicate the bases. If it's lit up, that means a runner is on the base. It has a thin layer of translucent plastic over the LEDs. I played it so much lol. 
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #3 on: April 12, 2024, 08:17
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ShinobiKenobi Ha! Cool. These were quite common when i was a kid during the 80's, and while they were severly limited in terms of actual gameplay, they were usually affordable. So yeah, you'd play them to death! I still remember that Basketball game of mine ... :-) I'd really love to get to know more about this one. Need to do some web research later. wove, congrats - that's a nice find, especially considering you ended up paying what...10 bucks after selling the candles? Pretty cool! The TimeCapsule sounds interesting - I assume the HDD that it contains is removable? (you never know with Apple these days )What protocols does it support? AFP? I seem to have completely missed the TimeCapsule, but then it's in a category I never really cared about.
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Neal_SE30
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256 MB Posts: 401 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #4 on: April 12, 2024, 23:17
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I remember those types of handhelds. I had a few of these in the 1980’s. Generally from Tandy a uk electronics shop (part of RadioShack). Loved those old fashioned vacuum style display's had them on my 1990’s hifi equipment. Nostalgia:)
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #5 on: April 20, 2024, 16:59
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Just to follow up to the TimeCapsule find. The TimeCapsule does use the afp protocol, however it is a newer protocol. When I try to connect via OS 9, the server is found, but I get an error. The version of afp used by the server is incompatible, please contact the server administrator. I asked myself to fix it, but I ended up telling myself that I did not know how to fix the incompatibility problem. From the documentation file it seems that TimeCapsule requires a later version of MacOS X Tiger to connect. It does work as a TimeMachine backup for Leopard and above.
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #6 on: April 21, 2024, 16:19
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I have the same problem with my Synology NAS, wove. The next outstanding update will kill off (legacy) AFP support and make it impossible for me to connect to it from Mac OS 9. So I won't update EVER Did you revert it to factory settings? If you try your luck with the oldest firmware / software version, does it still not work? Or did you try that already? Update on my LCD adventure: I did put a block battery into the golf game and given it's early 80's tech, it powered on with no problem :-) ... my kids had the biggest fun with the little red LCD lamps and the beeping sounds. Sure takes you back to the 80's, when games were simpler, but not neccessarily less entertaining. Same goes for life. My kids now asked me if I had more of these games or of we could get more, because they're fun. (my kids are not spoiled in terms of games)
Last Edit: April 22, 2024, 08:52 by Bolkonskij
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snes1423
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256 MB Posts: 458 A Man born of Mechina
Reply #7 on: April 22, 2024, 01:15
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put a 20+ emulator in there faces with a 7500 though you wont get past 8-bit emulation though as 16-bit on PPC really demands a fast 200+mhz 603e/604ev and in some cases a G3 on pc's however you can run snes/genesis on a 90mhz pentium  or you could and old console and hook it up to 90's trinitron or a AVID cinema card if you have one of those in your mac and use the tv player app
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