Author: Shalroth (wwwcache-c.lmu.ac.uk)
Date: 09-05-2001 16:58
I've revived many a system just by opening it up and cleaning the components with ethanol/propanone. Socketed chips can sometimes be pushed in again to make a system work!! As for resale value...I found an ICL One-Per-Desk at a 'Car Boot Sale' (reoughlt equivalent to a 'Yard Sale' or a 'Boot Fair'? I don't speak American) for GBP1.50, and it sold for almost GBP150. Yes, that 100 times what I paid for it. It took some Propanone, a toothbrush, some cotton buds (is that what you would call a q-tip?) and some glass polish for the monitor, but I got it reconditioned and it was snapped up by a collector on eBay (there was quite a fight for it in fact).
I'm not saying an Atari will fetch that much, but people will buy them. Boxes seem to be important, and a game with a manual will het about 3x what it would without the manual.
Good luck with your new pursuit...you may want to branch off from your folks and specialise in retro videogames and computers! It's fun and satisfying, I do a lot of that stuff in the UK...
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