[Coco] Selling my whole coco collection ( long email)

Wed May 13 10:27:14 EDT 2020

Sales pending,  someone made an offer.

Regards,
Benoit.

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 8:39 AM Benoit Bleau <benbleau at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Cocoers,
>
> My coco collection got way out of hands and circumstances are making it
> impossible for me to hold on to it.  As you will see, the huge amount of
> stuff I have won't fit in a small 1 bedroom apartment.
>
> I have decided to sell everything.   I am keeping my first coco 1 E, but
> everything else has to go. I'm sure that someone on this team will
> appreciate it.
>
> I want to sell it in one go, and I think the price I'm asking will be more
> than fair.`
> Since this is a huge lot, I do not have the time or the energy to sell it
> in pieces.   I'm willing to deliver it 100 miles around Montreal, QC.
>
> I started to make an inventory but when it came to small stuff, I ran out
> of juice.
>
> Here's the list of things in the collection:
> The computers:   over 25 of them
>
> Coco30 x 7  some working, some not, one with 6309
> Coco2 x 6 + 1 melted keyb + 1 new in box   total 8
> Coco Gray x 3
> Coco White  x 1
> MC coco x  4 + 1 in box,   5 x 16k ram pak, no foam
> Tano Dragon 64 2 new in box
> Timex Sinclair  x1 1x16k ram modukle 1016
> Commodore 64C x 1 Barely used, but yellowed
> Vic 20 x  1 unknown condition
>
> 200 Program paks,  120 different paks ,  80 duplicates some with
> variations on the label. 18 in boxes.
> 25 or so booklets.
> 2 PAK organisers , one with the lid.
>
> Accessories:
> Floppy drives:
> FD 501 in box
> FD 502 in box
> 26-3022 in box ( original 35 tracks drive)
> 13 enclosures with 1 or 2 drives,  some with 800kb, 1.2mb, 3.5 drives.
> IDE ZIP drive , compatible with Cloud9 super IDE
>
> Disk Controllers:
> 2 26-3029
> 2 26-3022
> 2 26-3129
> 3 FD-500
> 2 FD-501
> 1 J & M Systems
> 2  Disto Mini Controllers
> 2 DISTO SC II ( the no-halt kind)
> 1 4-in-1 board for the DISTO controllers ( SCSI, Parallel, serial and
> clock )
> 1 Glenside IDE interface ( I think) with  pak case
> 2 original Disto controllers, in white case.
> 1 FD 26-3029 ( I think)  with no case
>
> 2 Cloud9 Super IDE interfaces
>
> Multi paks:
> 4 x of the big Beige ones.  One has been moded with IRQ lines,  One has
> LED on it.  One was modified for coco3 ( can't remember which one)
> 2 x smaller Tandy multipak that matches the coco2/3 format
>
> 3 x  Xpad, one in box, 2 without box.
> 1 koala touch pad in box,  2 loose.
> 3 Stereo music synthesizer packs in boxes
> 1 direct connect modem pak in box
> 1 Plug'n power applicance light and controller in box
> 1 trs-80 color mouse in box
> 2 original joystiks in box
>
> With no box:
> 1 direct connect modem
> 5 Radio shack rs-232 packs
> 2 speech-sound pack
> 1 Word pak RS
> 1 CRC RS232 Super pack
> 1 Intronics Eprom programmer ( the best I think for the coco)
> 1 TRS-*) modem 1 B
> 1  Plug'n power applicance light and controller with cassette tapes
> 1 Roy Justus Coco3 to VGA interface ( I think  it's the first model he
> built.
>
>
> Boards:
> 1 Spectrum PAL switcher for the Multipak
> 1 LowerKit  from Denis.
>
>
>
> Printers:
> 1 DMP 105
> 1 Lineprinter VIII in box
> 1  CGP-115  plus paper
> 1 Star NX-10
>
> Joysticks and mice and interfaces
> 6 deluxe joystiks ( 2 need repairs)
> 1 3rd party joystik  ( Commander deluxe)
> over 10 black original , some in need of repair
> 2 beige 2 button mice with Hires interfaces
> 2 separate hires interfaces
> 1 home made cocomax interface ( not sure if cocomax 2 or 3)
>
> 2 Cassette tapes
>
> ICs:
> a few 68B09EP
> a few 63C08EP
> MC6821 and MC6822
> One ceramic SAM chip MC6883
> One Video chip mc6884
>
> Software on Disc:
> TS-Word
> The Color Computer Artist
> VidTex
> Tandy Home Publisher
> Ghama Bwana
> Zone Runner
> The miscropic mission
> Rescue on Fractalus
> King's Quest III
> Carmen Sandiego
>
>
> OS9 :
> OS9 level 1
> OS9 level 1.1
> OS-9 C compiler
> DL _ LOGO
> 2 xDeskmate 3 unsealed
> 1 Deskmate 3 opened
>
> OS-9 level 2
> OS-9 development system
> OS-9 level 2 Multivue
>
>
> There is a full box of coco cassettes from tape magazines.
>
> I believe I have the full run of Rainbow magazines.  The first issues
> might be photocopies, though.
> A good deal of the Hot Coco magazines, and color computer news.
>
> I have the full Rainbon on disk collection
>
> There are probably 1000 5 1/4 disks. In that , there are a few original
> software disks.
>
> There is a big box of mixed wires of all kinds; cassette, printer, video,
> etc.
>
> If I recall, in there was about 6' x 6'x 6'  of boxes that I opened. It's
> a big lot.
>
> For all of that, I'm asking 1000$  canadian.
>
> I can provide photos if you want.
>
> Regards,
> Benoit Bleau.
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