FA: Early Williams (Vid Kidz) development systems, Gimix Ghost

[Duncan Brown]

I know it's rude just to show up to pimp my own ebay auction, but this
is a once in a lifetime offering. You will not see the likes of this
again, believe me. Someone give this a good home and keep it running,
since I'm out of space and time. (For the curious, this is what I used
to recreate the 30-level Blaster ROMs a while back...well, this and a
whole bunch of my time and puzzle-solving abilities!)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250291963539

I'll work with you to get it moved across country, wherever it needs to
go. I've owned enough pinball machines, video games, and vintage
computers to know how that's the tricky part, but we can always come up
with something.

Duncan

[seymour-shabow]

THAT is a cool auction and an important piece of history - hopefully
someone that knows how to use it will pick this up.

-scott CARGPB#29

[qbert-wpc]

Wow that's cool!!!

[Michael Lenardon]

Very cool stuff. Has anyone offered it to Eugine himself?

Michael
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[Duncan Brown]

Michael Lenardon wrote:
> Very cool stuff. Has anyone offered it to Eugine himself?
>

Er, that would be a bit of a round-trip, don't you think? If he still
wanted it, he'd still have it!

Duncan

[chuck]

Damn...

I collect old computer systems and have a robotron and defender in my
basement. I have a feeling it might go for crazy money.

Good to see you post here Duncan. I hope to see you at expo.

[Scott Caldwell]

Those hard drives and floppy drives sure bring back memories. I used
to work on that equipment, back in the day. Hopefully, this will go
to someone that can truly appreciate it, maybe use it, and certainly
preserve it.

Scott C.

[Sean Riddle]

Duncan-

Do you know if there is any source code on any of the disks?

Thanks-

Sean

[Neil Cherry]

Wish I could adopt the system, I'm a bit far away and I don't have
extra time to take care of the system. I grew up on this system. When
the IBM PC came out I couldn't understand how anyone could tolerate a
single user system after having done development work with the Ghost.
I loved the fact that we could run 3 developers (C and assembly
language), a secretary, a printer and EPROM burner. Those were the
good old days.

--
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[Zookeeper]

>
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250291963539

this should be donated (or offered to, at a reasonable fee) to
the electronics conservancy, videotopia.com -- that way it
will be put on display in their traveling exhibit.

just my opinion, of course...

[Duncan Brown]

I thought the raison d'etre of videotopia was to bring functioning video
games to the masses, so they could play them and experience history,
instead of just reading about it. I can't think of a good way for a
Gimix box to become part of a functioning museum exhibit! It needs to
go to someone who will actually use it, keep it operational, etc.

On a side note, I sold videotopia a fairly pristine I, Robot for a song
about 12 years ago, when they were first building up their collection.

Duncan

[Sean Riddle]

Duncan-

safestuff1-

Please let us know what's on the disks! Some of us would probably
also help offset your cost.

Thanks-

Sean

[Sean Riddle]

whoops

Duncan-

I was going to bid $1337, but it made it to $1825, a bit higher than I
was willing to go. And it would probably cost me about the same to
drive to IL and get it.

Sean