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Main => Consoles => Topic started by: USSEnterprise on March 09, 2006, 02:48:46 pm

Title: I'm confused. Don't laugh
Post by: USSEnterprise on March 09, 2006, 02:48:46 pm

I'm getting a gift for someone, in the form of an Atari 2600 System. The system is on its way, and I just got some cartridges I ordered today in the mail. I was looking at them, and I can find no contacts. Just seems to be a plain black box, save for the labels. Isn't there supposed to be a card edge connector somewhere? Did I get screwed over?

Title: Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
Post by: Hoagie_one on March 09, 2006, 02:57:15 pm

the plastic recedes into the cartridge so the edge connector is revealed to the machine.  There should be a slot on the cartidge or a couple small slots

Title: Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
Post by: USSEnterprise on March 09, 2006, 05:22:26 pm

thanks :laugh:

Title: Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
Post by: mccoy178 on March 10, 2006, 06:27:09 am

You are a youngen aren't ya?! ;)

Title: Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
Post by: Hoagie_one on March 10, 2006, 08:52:32 am

Quote from: mccoy178 on March 10, 2006, 06:27:09 am

You are a youngen aren't ya?! ;)

thats what i was thinking too.  I had the exact same issue when I was 5...back in 1980

Title: Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
Post by: USSEnterprise on March 10, 2006, 09:49:46 pm

Quote from: Hoagie_one on March 10, 2006, 08:52:32 am

Quote from: mccoy178 on March 10, 2006, 06:27:09 am

You are a youngen aren't ya?! ;)

thats what i was thinking too.  I had the exact same issue when I was 5...back in 1980

My brain is used to shiny circles you put on a sliding tray that hold hundreds of megabytes of data. Not square, black, plug in things that have less memory than a VCR

Title: Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
Post by: Hoagie_one on March 11, 2006, 11:48:14 am

its all we had back then, and we were happy.

Title: Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
Post by: mccoy178 on March 11, 2006, 03:33:38 pm

And when we went to K B Toys to buy new carts, we had to walk up hill both ways....... ;D

Title: Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
Post by: markrvp on March 11, 2006, 10:13:07 pm

Who needs more than 16 colors?

Title: Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
Post by: dabone on March 12, 2006, 08:29:52 pm

16??? You were living large! My poor vic20 only had 8..


(Now a sinclair owner will post that mono what fine with them.)




Later,
dabone

Title: Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
Post by: SithMaster on March 12, 2006, 11:42:41 pm

whats a sinclair?

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And when we went to K B Toys to buy new carts, we had to walk up hill both ways.......

now you have me pondering this statements feasibility.

Title: Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
Post by: dabone on March 13, 2006, 01:18:39 am

http://oldcomputers.net/ts1000.html (http://oldcomputers.net/ts1000.html)

It was more underpowered than the vic.

(Hey the Vic came with 5k Ram (3.5 usable))

(http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ts1000.JPG)

And I used to buy my games on tape at The Computer Shoppe. (Thats not a misspelling)


Later,
dabone

Title: Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
Post by: Goz on March 13, 2006, 07:38:32 am

I've still got my Timex Sinclair 1000. First PC I ever coded on. Ah the good ol days back then 300 baud kicked arse..

Title: Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
Post by: missioncontrol on March 13, 2006, 09:20:27 am

yungins these days.... I tells ya

Title: Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
Post by: cabe on April 03, 2006, 10:09:23 am

you had colour?!

My poor little Binatone....