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I'm confused. Don't laugh
« 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?
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Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
« Reply #1 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

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Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2006, 05:22:26 pm »
thanks :laugh:
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Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2006, 06:27:09 am »
You are a youngen aren't ya?! ;)

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Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2006, 08:52:32 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

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Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2006, 09:49:46 pm »
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
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Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2006, 11:48:14 am »
its all we had back then, and we were happy.

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Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
« Reply #7 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

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Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2006, 10:13:07 pm »
Who needs more than 16 colors?

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Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
« Reply #9 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.)




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Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
« Reply #10 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.
Back in MY day we lived on the moon and we had to build a rocket ship from scratch to get to the Earth before we suffocated.

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Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2006, 01:18:39 am »
http://oldcomputers.net/ts1000.html

It was more underpowered than the vic.

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



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


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Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
« Reply #12 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..

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Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2006, 09:20:27 am »
yungins these days.... I tells ya

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Re: I'm confused. Don't laugh
« Reply #14 on: April 03, 2006, 10:09:23 am »
you had colour?!

My poor little Binatone....