The Robotron 2084 mini engineering prototype is on Ebay....

Steve Prendergast

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Jul 26, 2006, 8:05:49 PM7/26/06

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http://cgi.ebay.com/Robotron-Engineering-Prototype-from-1982-Williams-RARE_W0QQitemZ200011549067QQihZ010QQcategoryZ13716QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Only $5200.

microlo...@yahoo.com

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Jul 26, 2006, 8:21:09 PM7/26/06

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Steve Prendergast wrote:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Robotron-Engineering-Prototype-from-1982-Williams-RARE_W0QQitemZ200011549067QQihZ010QQcategoryZ13716QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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> Only $5200.
And being sold by a congreesional candidate, no less!

kevinp...@gmail.com

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Jul 26, 2006, 8:30:16 PM7/26/06

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Were all the minis that color and with that control panel?
I'm just curious as to what else makes this one any different besides a
button on the coin door.
He needs to show a little more proof other than that in order to be
asking $5200 straight up for it.
My opinion of course.....

prOk

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Jul 26, 2006, 8:56:40 PM7/26/06

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A *little* research goes a long way :)

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Steven Zeuner

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Jul 26, 2006, 8:35:25 PM7/26/06

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Check out the instruction card on the monitor plexi, its not for a regular
robo mini. Its for Moon patrol which never got released for mini
production. Guess they were working on one in the shop...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200011549067&indexURL=3&photoDisplayType=2#ebayphotohosting

I can make out the words...if i squint. :)

RRcade

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Jul 26, 2006, 8:36:33 PM7/26/06

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That button that stops game to rewrite code looks a lot like a credit
button to me?
However I hear this game was once played by Jimmy Carter who also wrote
the original code for the game.

Steve Prendergast

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Jul 26, 2006, 8:38:14 PM7/26/06

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If this is the actual prototype, it is documented that there are things
uniquie to this game like a white power board and a game halt switch
(but this hack was made available by Duncan Brown years ago for the
rest of us).

A search of Yahoo! also places it for sale in Illinois:

http://perfectamusements.com/Arcade/a80robotron_ep.htm

More info here (but looks like the above copied this for their site):

http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/williams/robo_proto/robotron_ep.html

Steve Prendergast

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Jul 26, 2006, 8:40:27 PM7/26/06

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I'll have to check when I get home from work - my monitor here is way
too dark and I can't see the Moon Patrol reference on the bezel (but it
is documented that the prototype does have this oddity on it).

Shred

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Jul 26, 2006, 8:41:05 PM7/26/06

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Pretty beat up for never being in a arcade...

Dave

Scott Caldwell

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Jul 26, 2006, 8:50:45 PM7/26/06

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Anyone have $5,200 I can borrow. :)

Scott C.

Shred

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Jul 26, 2006, 9:12:55 PM7/26/06

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http://cgi.ebay.com/The-very-first-Defender-Prototype-1-from-1980-Williams_W0QQitemZ200011568008QQihZ010QQcategoryZ13716QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

They have a prototype defender too.. Wrong pics though.... they want
18,999.00 for it....

Dave

Shred

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Jul 26, 2006, 9:18:40 PM7/26/06

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You would think with the money they are asking they could get something
right..

http://cgi.ebay.com/SpaceZap-1-Color-Monitor-Bally-pre-pacman-prototype_W0QQitemZ200011568653QQihZ010QQcategoryZ13716QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Everything is wrong... Wrong pics... Wrong description everything...
Hard to know what you are buying...

Look at some of their other auctions... LOL

Dave

guinn...@gmail.com

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Jul 26, 2006, 9:41:51 PM7/26/06

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I thought the entire bezel was a Moon mini from the one found some
years ago? Maybe my memory is fuzzy...

tim (NH)

D Widel

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Jul 26, 2006, 10:15:11 PM7/26/06

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That's interesting, I'd like to have seen the pics on that. I've been
meaning to convert my space zap to color.

big dog

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Jul 26, 2006, 11:14:26 PM7/26/06

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Hi,

If I recall a google search will turn up the info on this game, as there
was a big stir around it a few years ago.

Mark Capps

David Haynes

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Jul 26, 2006, 11:53:51 PM7/26/06

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Here is the info post a while back

http://arcarc.xmission.com/Pictures/Prototype/Proto%20Robotron/The%20Rarest%20Robotron%20in%20the%20world.htm

Enjoy

David Haynes
d...@bombjack.org

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big dog

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Jul 27, 2006, 12:57:03 AM7/27/06

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Hi,

No need fo 5k, SI groups in congres will stuff your pockets full;0

Mark Capps

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Jul 27, 2006, 1:07:16 PM7/27/06

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It appears they have "fixed" all of their arcade auctions now.....if
anyone cares to take a look at what else they've offered.
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZside-viewQQhtZ-1

They seem to have answered my dumb question as well about the Robotron
mini.
And after further researching it, I've come to the conclusion that I
could care less. :)

microlo...@yahoo.com

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Jul 27, 2006, 3:10:48 PM7/27/06

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SO.... In other words, this guy will fit right in with the other
Congressmen!

Greg Free

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Jul 27, 2006, 5:43:51 PM7/27/06

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>
> SO.... In other words, this guy will fit right in with the other
> Congressmen!

It's also priced very competivitely with those (in)famous $20k
government toilet seats. Clearly the residents of this district have
accurately determined that this guy is a true politician.

Greg

skidog

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Jul 27, 2006, 11:15:50 PM7/27/06

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And then there is also

The very first Defender Prototype #1 from 1980 Williams only $16,999
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200011568008

"Steve Prendergast" <stevenpr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> http://cgi.ebay.com/Robotron-Engineering-Prototype-from-1982-Williams-RARE_W0QQitemZ200011549067QQihZ010QQcategoryZ13716QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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> Only $5200.
>

Steve Prendergast

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Jul 28, 2006, 12:44:55 AM7/28/06

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Don't overlook the $900 Major Havoc roller controller. :)

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Jul 28, 2006, 11:09:26 AM7/28/06

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Greg Free wrote:
>It's also priced very competivitely with those (in)famous $20k
>government toilet seats.

Well, if you 've ever done any Gov't contracting, you'd quickly realize
those toilet seats are way underpriced :-)

When you have to send employees to all day seminars just to be able to
complete the paperwork, when even the packing list has to be printed
with Mil Spec ink, and on and on. My favorite was calibrating and
certifying our metal rulers, rulers! not dial calipers but rulers!

Oh well.....

Mike Doyle

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Jul 28, 2006, 11:40:38 AM7/28/06

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Steve Prendergast wrote:
> Don't overlook the $900 Major Havoc roller controller. :)

Shipping is cheap though... I'd suggest the insurance. ;)

RedWolfJC

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Jul 28, 2006, 12:36:08 PM7/28/06

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I work in a print shop, and we calibrate and certify our metal rulers
as well. Actually just about every place I've worked has done that in
one form or another.
it's part of ISO certification, you have to do it as part of that
process.
You'd be suprised how many ruler vendors we've had to drop for sending
us too much product "out of calibration" apparently a lot of these
places now import from China and the variations from one ruler to the
next are incredible.