Okay, a few folks said they were interested in seeing some posting going on here again, so let's see if the works. I'll start with an explanation of my absence; in short other hobbies, life, recovery.
Other hobbies: Each year I put up Christmas lights. Everybody does right? Well, no. And certainly not everyone goes as far as I do, though some make my display look like a Light-Bright on steroids. No, I usually put up 15-20,000 lights each year and sync them to music. This starts sometime in August and runs thru December. Which is why my last post was in August 2008. Usually, I pick back up in January. Last year I didn't....
Life: Spending time with my wife and kids during and after the holidays. Nuff said...
Recovery: On February 2nd, 2009, I was stopped at a traffic light when some asshat who was not paying attention rear ended me. I was in a 1995 Ford Thunderbird. He was in a GMC 2500 series pickup. I was standing still. He was going about 50mph. I remember the initial impact, and my car hitting the van in front of me. I don't remember anything else until I was out of my car walking around. Physically, I hurt like hell, but, with no apparent major injuries, I turned down the ride in the meat-wagon and waited until the FHP trooper was done and my wife took me to the hospital. Talk about a bunch more ass hats. If your guts aren't dragging and your brains aren't oozing out of your head, there's nothing wrong with you.
In the weeks after I had numerous problems, both physicality and mentally - I hurt like hell everywhere and my memory was non-existent, I had trouble finding words to complete sentences, my eyes were VERY sensitive to light (still are), I had mood swings worse that Carrie and Sybil combined, and was not getting more than 2 hours sleep per night. When I say my memory was bad, I mean I forgot complete conversations, forgot entire nights, forgot how to do parts of my job. We began to look my symptoms and look over pictures of my car. We discovered three distinct impact marks from the truck's tire on my rear bumper and trunk - I had been bounced around like a pinball between him and the minivan in front of me.
After numerous MRI's and other tests, I was finally diagnosed wither herniated discs in my back and neck, torn rotator cuff in my left and right shoulders, and 'post concussion syndrome', or in other words, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. While I'm not back to 100%, at this stage I;m probably as far back physically as I'll come. We have seen improvements in the head symptoms and hopefully those will continue. However, many people whom I have talked to who are familiar with this type of injury tell me I'll be battling it on and off for the rest of my life...
Anyway, on to the eVil Bay stuff...
KPSURPLUS is back with a CoCo2 that looks like it's been rode hard and put away wet... and the price is ridiculous at $69.00 for being sold 'as parts.'
If you have a Model III in need of a picture tube this may work for you. Tho the seller says he is trying to 'build his rating back up' and that usually scares me...
Here's a CoCo Orechestra 90 for a very reasonable price at $7.95 right now. I'd be interested if I didn't already have one...
And we have a much better example of a CoCo2 with Manuals here than the KPRIPOFF above. Shipping cost is fair, the price is a little high at $49.00.
Not in as good shape as the one right above, but, far better than KP's, this CoCo2 with Bustout is priced fair and shipping is also where one would expect.
Don't know who this guy is, but, um no.... CoCO disk drive and controller...
There are some others that are still more than 4 days out right now. I'll try to catch up on them tomorrow.
Later,
MCCM
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