Specifically I got -
(a) A Tandy deluxe 6 pin analogue Joystick, circa '85. It is lovely, physical self centering still works, but the only issue is it is 6 pin DIN connected, and I don't have a Tandy Co-Co 3 which takes six pin DIN. I can pull the extra pin out, disabling the second fire button, and then I can use it on Dragon (and Tandy) 6809 computers that I do have, but it would feel like vandalism. DIN connectors were nearly unique to those machines, despite getting wide use elsewhere in Audio tech industry, as the Atari standard was taken up by the rest of the machines- Spectrum, Commodore et al.
(b) a couple of common Microdeal Dragon 32 tapes I needed to finish the collection of Microdeal games (I owned all the rarer ones already) , and a Dragon Data game in a huge 12 inch clam case. The latter are quite rare, and commonly go for 20-50 quid (and more) on Ebay, entirely due to the massive packaging, into which you could fit considerably more than one tape. The tapes themselves go for a couple of pounds.
No Atari cartridges this year, last year I got Defender for the 800/800 XL in the box and a couple without boxes, and another joystick. There is a lot of Atari stuff that is still shop sealed out there, but it goes for a fair bit.
Tapes are generally bad storage mechanisms, but often they were poorly recorded in the first instance, they don't actually degrade that much. I have a failure rate of old tapes of just about 5% with old tapes, which is pretty close to the failure rate back in the 80s. Often they can be fixed by rerecording the WAV file onto tape. A lot of modern enthusiasts put out cracked versions of cassettes that took ages to load, they can often be compressed to a couple of minutes.
I don't suppose there are that many rugby/old computer fans out there? I I know a couple, and neither are Wasps fans. Real ale + rugby I can see as an obvious cross over (although I like real ciders myself), other sports and old cars/bikes you would think be quite high on the list........
Topic: So what did you get? (Read 4741 times)
Always a Wasp