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Speak of your great yard sale deals!

Post by radioactivelego » Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:59 pm

Considering 90% of all portables are old consoles you are either ripping your brother's one apart without his knowledge or you are getting them for a steal at a yard sale. Tell of your great deals that you have stumbled upon.

- 4 40-pin ribbon cables for $1. One of them had 8 ports for hard drives. :shock:
- Sega for $5.
- 30 Sega games for $10
- Playstation (first gen) for $10
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Post by kidw/32+systems » Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:45 am

how about a complete Neo Geo AES for $20 :shock:
Sega Cd :$1
NES:$1.70
Super metroid complete $5
and countless others
i have never payed full/ebay price for anything.
PlayChoice games 50/54 37 toppers

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Post by opadave2000 » Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:46 am

SNES for free - walked up, asked how much, lady said "take it and get it out of my hair" - didn't need a second invitation :lol:
Buy it, open it, modify it ;-)

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Post by cennar » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:10 am

i got my vary first sofa... yes i had to drag it home all on my own. and i got it one town over.
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Post by bicostp » Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:19 pm

A black trash bag of Atari 2600 stuff for $5. 8)

A guy at school gave me a "broken" GBC (needed to re-solder a speaker connection) :lol:

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Post by soundwave » Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:20 pm

He considered a lack of sound 'broken'? Jeez, I usually play with the sound off regardless.

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Post by nos_slived » Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:32 pm

Some people are just that dumb. And Cennar, you may have had to drag it home, but atleast you had a couch to lay on well you got high.

LOL! I just thought of the stonner dog in "Dude, Where's my Car?". OH CRAP. This is another thread of topic now.
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Post by xxxeagle » Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:52 pm

ps2 :free from my aunt
gba :free from a kid at school
complete n64 with 3 games and a memory expansion: 2 ps1 games and a memory card
Ive gotten a bunch of good deals but i cant remember them all right now.

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Post by Lucretius » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:16 pm

A left shoe; 10.5 I believe...used it for a sculpture. Then lit the fwiggen thing on fire! *Sigh* It was glorious...
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Post by Niku-Sama » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:44 pm

a 8088 complete system....computer people know what i mean

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Post by bicostp » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:50 pm

Dude! That's newer than the Space Shuttle computers! :P

Non PC junkies- an 8088 was one of the earliest PC processors made, next to the 8086. It ran at 2 megahertz tops. Since then we have had (in ascending order) the 286, 386, 386 SX, 486 SX, 486, pentiums 1, pro, 2, 3, and 4. Note: this list is incomplete and does not cover any processors besides Intel.

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Post by vb_master » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:55 pm

What computers do they use in the space shuttles anyways?

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Post by Dark Savant0 » Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:06 pm

PC's without windows. Which is why they only crash with human error or divine intervention. :lol:

Do they use a flavor of UNIX, or some other archaic OS?

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Post by bicostp » Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:10 pm

I think Columbia used the 8086, Discovery has the 8088, and I think the rest have/had the z80. (Not sure, just a guess.) Or they could all have one of those processors. At any rate, you couldn't give any pcs using those processors away to homeless bums in the Bronx, they're so bad.

All of those PCs ran early versions of DOS or CP/M, possibly Unix.
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Post by Dark Savant0 » Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:12 pm

Forgot my "FINDS"
Sealed SNES's, all 3 american versions, 10 bucks each, NIB.
40 SEALED NIB snes games. 20 for all. Included like all FF games.
An assortment of nes games, about 100 for 10 bucks.
A 20 inch Monitor. TFT, Black, NIB. 40 bucks.
Someones hard drive. 20 gb, but it had like every rap song ever made, even underground crap. Amounted to about 15 gbs. 15 bucks.

Do I know how to pick em or what?

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