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Giving an NES a spin to see if it's functional after cleaning.

Always loved these. Before the Gameboy, or even LCD video games, there were these units. The Shooting Gallery is stamped 1976. I believe the Amazing Maze is from 1975.

I picked up 2 mystery Activision carts for next to nothing today that turned out to be Plaque Attack and Enduro. Clearly they are sans label. I have a color laser and a vinyl cutter so I can make new labels, but what is this general stance on that? Collection wise, are you better waiting for a fried cart/doner label, or given the state of the units out there, are (quality) reprinted labels acceptable, or is that more a private collection thing?

I suppose I could just print it and sell it with an unapplied label (if someone wanted to inspect the cart... but who counterfeits Plaque Attack these days??)

Thoughts?

Finally slapped a BlueSCSI into an SE with a borked drive. Oddly the smallest thing the unit was happy with was a 16GB micro SD I had on hand. (I tried a vintage 2GB SD for yucks to 'keep it vintage' and the BlueSCSI was giving the dreaded 5 blinks.

I only put the one 2GB blank image on. This still feels silly on a machine of this age. I'm going to get Think C on here and likely much with some fun with the serial port and some ADB sniffing for another fun project.

I know I'm not showing half the formats here. It's been a ride through.

I had this patched into a Palm back in the day. I used the ends of a female DB9 adapter and put the leads on and then flooded the slot on the Garmin handheld unit with hot glue. (After lubing it up with petroleum jelly first so it would come out after.

Janky, but it was functional. I actually did some war walking with this and the first Palm branded phone (before they bought Handspring) and was mapping out cell tower locations for yucks. (Sample tower ID, signal strength, and GPS location)

Good times. I likely still have my vintage Java ESRI code around somewhere as well.

It is, of course missing a battery door cover and a stylus. I guess this means I will be compelled to make some for it. I may have to play with a sync cable/cradle at some point as well.

Did not pick this up, but it was a fascinating device. It appears to be from 1948 and feels like a piece of tech from some alternative universe timeline.

Not finding a ton of info on this unit. Made in Japan (of course) Looks late 70's/early 80's. You have to love the way these early units just launch the cassette's on eject.

I should likely stop snagging these, but they usually want next to nothing for them. Plus this one came with a "Why You Get Funky On Me" single... I mean how can you say no to that?

As a clue as to how expensive injection molding was (and still is) I've always been amused how it was cheaper to add an adapter to the existing Intellevision cart form factor to make 2600 carts vs, you know, just remold the whole thing.

Perhaps someone got a deal on some already made shells? The Intellevision cart on the right actually has the Mattel copyright in the mold.

Just picked this up. The drawer would (of course) not open. Hoped for at least one coin, but the contents still did not disappoint. Apparently a sale with a totally valid payment of LEGO as currently did not go through as planned. (A jam, but not *thee* jam) It seems the main issue was an attempt to store a very valuable bead necklace in the cash drawer going south. My guess is the turtle puff sticker was collateral damage in that incident.

The machine is back to working order. Now I just need to craft some replica coins. 😁

This was a fun pick up. No flap but it has the matching stylus. He had a Palm III there which (oddly) he wanted more for. (That had an ICE Visor stylus as well.)

I only picked up the one as it was fun. He did not know if either one worked. I need to remember to start carrying AAA, AA, and 9V cells when flea marketing. 🤣

Just got this DeWalt planer back on its feet. It had spent some quality time on a garage floor and the rust on the guides had completely fused the head from moving up and down.

I used vinegar and a generic scotch brite pad to hit the rods for a first pass (after some quality persuasion to knock them loose that is.) I followed that up with some steel wool and then hit them with a fresh coat of WD-40. (See this before and after in the pic)

It's nuts that these are such a tight tolerance that a coat of rust will completely fuse the cutting head. The rest of it seems to still work fine after the clean up.

Found this Intellevision [2609A] in rather pristine condition at a flea market. The odd bit is that the disks on the controllers are drilled and tapped for joysticks. The sticks seem to be MIA, but the canvas cover had holes cut for them.

I've not seen this, or found mention of it. I have not pulled one apart yet, but the discs are metal down through the threading.

This has what appears to be a lamp cord on it as well (with a separate power switch). Has anyone seen what I'm looking at? Is this a recent or vintage mod. It's very nicely done either way. I'm rather curious what the sticks looked like.

This main board is like 2 dimensional. Going to be rather fun to try and get this spicy pillow off this unit when the board is offering like zero resistance. They seemed to want to make sure it was not going anywhere.

Not exactly too excited to stick, well, anything in there to help it out.

Working down the list. These are coming out rather nice now so I've added them to the store here.

I know there is a request out for the W and the C. Seems they have a different 'quill' on them. I may have to try and find a 'for parts' set somewhere before I can get to those.

There is another more common pack that had the Zire 72 'quill' in it. I actually have a Zire 72, but the question is if that one is even in demand.

I'll keep adding to the line as I manage to get ahold of other units. Gets a bit spendy buying broken (or 'as is') devices just to get the specs for their styli. 🤣

EDIT: It looks like the T|X and the T5 have longer 'quills' on them as well. I will have to pick up more devices if I want to get those in the mix. Oddly I have a bunch of Zires. I guess it just goes to show it does not matter how many Palms you have, you still need more, right?

Just ran across this, I never knew this even existed, but I also was not a Clie guy.

Do you have any odd Palm related add ons like this? What else is lurking out there?

Took a bit of tweaking, but the Palm III series replacement doors are up in our store here. These were tested to fit with all the units I had (which are shockingly *not* all identical. Go figure.) These are made out of the same plastic as the originals.

Clearly the IIIc does not have removable batteries, so it did not make the group photo. If you can think of any units I missed, let me know and I'll add them into the list. (If they are compatible, of course).

Needs a few tweaks, but this thing is almost ready to ship. Testing with the Palm III, IIIx, and the Symbol SPT-1500. I'm not going to match the grey(s) so I may just do basic black.

Just found this in a bin of random stuff I got from a flea market. Blast from the past.