Auctions of note for May 5th, 2006:
There just hasn't been much that's got me excited lately as far as CoCo auctions go. Probably has a lot to do with the pile of stuff I still need to go through and catalog. Hard to get hot about buying new CoCo stuff when the wife is looking at the big piles of it in the CoCo room and giving the evil eye and fondling a shovel and a package of over sized trash bags. Ahem. And the pile just keeps getting bigger!
A quick thank you to several people (you know who you are) who've sent stuff to Project CoCo Rescue. I really do send this stuff back out and there's some happy folks out there right now, gleefully playing with your old CoCo stuff and putting it to good use. They thank you, too. ;) The project is officially closed, alas. I'll still take any CoCo stuff you intend to throw out, and I'll continue to pass it along to others. I just can't afford to pay more than postage for common stuff anymore on account I'm running out of CoCo cash! :) So, if you want to donate it to the cause, by all means drop me an email. If not, PLEASE list it on eBay or post to one of the message boards out there. There's plenty of people that would love to have it!!!
On to the collecting... While things have certainly been slow in the TRS-80 listings, there's been stuff worth considering, particularly if you're looking for things to use with your system and not just to collect. That's been the picture for awhile now, of course. Here's a few items that caught my eye:
eBay: Lot of 7 Tandy Color Computer Games (item 270118018090 end time May-13-07 17:22:44 PDT)
This lot has a couple of CoCo 1/2 titles and five CoCo 3 titles. Fairly used, but include the box and instructions. Pretty nice lot if you want to jump start your collection. All of these are pretty good games, with Sub Battle, Thexder, King's Quest III, Koronis Rift, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Shanghai and Interbank Incident.
eBay: Supersound audio for the Tandy Color Computer 3 (item 250112309877 end time May-11-07 16:34:57 PDT)
This is a CoCo 3 program I'm not familiar with. Appears to be some sort of sounds digitizing system. Includes instructions and original disk. The original is damaged, so a working backup is also included. Looks pretty neat and, obviously, exceedingly rare!
eBay: Vintage TRS-80 plus many extras!!! all in original box. (item 330116970408 end time May-12-07 15:45:04 PDT)
Good looking and mostly complete CoCo 1 system with most of the original fixings, tape drive, and a pair of stubbies in the box. There's some tapes, too, but alas the contents aren't listed. Shipping is a bit (okay exceedingly) steep.
eBay: TRS-80 Color Computer Learning Lab - LN (item 300108290786 end time May-08-07 19:36:50 PDT)
You know, I've never run the tapes on this. Had it for years. Weird. Anyhoo, these don't come looking decent much. This one is not bad at all. Those old Tandy binders yellow pretty bad, destroying the manuals and tapes. This one appears complete, but the pictures aren't the clearest.
eBay: TANDY TRS 80~INTERBANK INCIDENT~ON FLOPPYS~VIDEO GAME (item 170108279633 end time May-09-07 21:59:00 PDT)
Great game, fair but complete copy. Worth playing on your CoCo 1/2.
eBay: TANDY TRS 80 DRAGON FIRE CARTRIDGE~VINTAGE VIDEO GAME (item 170108279018 end time May-09-07 21:51:12 PDT)
Another fun game, this one full of dragon action. Just the pak and the manual, but it's rare enough to warrant a good look.
eBay: TANDY TRS 80~SHAMUS~ON FLOPPY~VIDEO GAME~1983~RARE (item 170108274674 end time May-09-07 21:09:11 PDT)
Another fairly rare OS-9 disk game.
eBay: Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer,printer, manuals, NR (item 140114215503 end time May-09-07 14:57:35 PDT)
And another very nice CoCo 1. This was is appears to be a 26-3002 from 1982. They didn't show the other side of the box, but it appears to be Color BASIC only.
eBay: TANDY COLOR COMPUTER 3 128K STD.TV, VIDEO, RGB NIB (item 260114200944 end time May-07-07 14:24:28 PDT)
Wow. A complete, pretty much brand new CoCo 3. It's not mint (the box has been opened), but it's about as close as you get on eBay. Collector's take note!
eBay: Radio Shack Service Manual for TRS-80 Color Computer (item 120115445044 end time May-08-07 18:54:30 PDT)
Pretty rare service manual (the second one, the first is green) for the 3001/3002. If you own one of these machines this is a Good Thing to have.
Not too bad actually. :)
Folks are buying, though, and seeing a lot of new people I haven't seen bidding before. Software and paks are going strong and pulling in some record prices. Loads of CoCo 2s selling as well! Some sales of note:
eBay: Tandy TRS-80 TRS80 Cassette Recorder Cable 26-1207 NOS (item 110121071330 end time May-05-07 17:29:09 PDT)
Holy crap! This tape deck cable and, in another auction, a CoCo serial cable, sold for nearly US$55.00!!! Now where are all those extra cable I have laying about here... I need some cash!
eBay: TANDY TRS 80 GRAPHIC PAK CARTRIDGE AND BOOK~'82~RARE (item 170106092452 end time May-02-07 22:51:35 PDT)
This very nice looking Graphic Pak and manual (no original packaging) went for a whopping US$17.00!
eBay: TANDY TRS 80~PEGASUS~ON FLOPPY~VIDEO GAME~1985~RARE (item 170106089801 end time May-02-07 22:18:44 PDT)
Pegasus and The Phantom Riders, great and rare game, excellent condition floppy package, complete, US$15.50. Bumped up the price guide a bit, but too few copies recorded to get a good accurate read.
eBay: TANDY TRS 80 ROBOT BATTLE ~ADV. IN PROGRAMMING~'81~RARE (item 170106080397 end time May-02-07 21:29:26 PDT)
Darn rare game by itself. Even rarer complete in package. Sold for about US$10.50. This is the first price guide capture.
eBay: Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer Software SPIDERCIDE (item 320107737024 end time May-01-07 21:37:31 PDT)
Super rare in any condition, this was a still shrinked copy of the Spiderside pak. I didn't bid on this because, well, I'm an idiot. Sold for about US$26.00.
eBay: Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer Software POLTERGEIST (item 320107737000 end time May-01-07 21:37:27 PDT)
Still shrinked Poltergiest pak. See, above idiot excuse. Sold for US$7.50.
eBay: TRS 80/Radio Shack/Tandy - 56 carts-manuals-some new (item 270113224835 end time Apr-30-07 19:12:59 PDT)
WOOO! Probably the biggest dollar auction for the CoCo I've seen in a long time. Big fat lot of 56 paks went for US$196.33. Dang.
eBay: 31 5.25" Floppy Disks with Tandy Color Computer Stuff (item 110119984023 end time Apr-30-07 18:16:51 PDT)
This grab bag of CoCo disks (no identifications) went for a solid $31.00. Hope they got something good!
eBay: VINTAGE Tandy TRS 80 Color Computer 2 LOADED NO RESERVE (item 130104018628 end time Apr-28-07 13:59:17 PDT)
Gorgeous and complete CoCo 2 lot. Went for a very nice $104.00. Seller made a great sale, and the seller got a darn good looking (and handy) CoCo 2 setup. Hope he gets a ton of enjoyment out of it.
eBay: tandy trs-80 touch pad mint in box (item 300104705737 end time Apr-28-07 08:42:03 PDT)
Pretty much brand new one. I think these got a bit over valued, so I chopped the price guide listing down considerably after this one and another didn't sell several times in a row. This one went for US$15.50.
eBay: TC^3 SCSI Controller and drive system - Color Computer (item 110117265941 end time Apr-26-07 16:38:08 PDT)
Okay, and we'll finish up with this Cloud-9 TC^3 SCSI setup. This isn't vintage equipment, but it was still fun to see it come up for sale. This one went with Jaz drive and 4X CD ROM drive plus the controller for US$80.00. Great deal considering the controller alone sells for $75.00 new (without the real time clock, which isn't mentioned in the auction).
Final note, I'll going to try (for awhile anyhow) to switch posting the CoCo Collector more regularly on Tuesdays nights instead of Sunday and as things pop up. I'll post hot single items as they come up, but most of it will be on the one night. I'm hoping this switch will a) give it some freakin regularity (and hey, when you're my age, being regular is great), and 2) let me update the price guide more consistently. Might as well have a go at it, right?! :)
Angel's Luck,
Capt.
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There just hasn't been much that's got me excited lately as far as CoCo auctions go. Probably has a lot to do with the pile of stuff I still need to go through and catalog. Hard to get hot about buying new CoCo stuff when the wife is looking at the big piles of it in the CoCo room and giving the evil eye and fondling a shovel and a package of over sized trash bags. Ahem. And the pile just keeps getting bigger!
A quick thank you to several people (you know who you are) who've sent stuff to Project CoCo Rescue. I really do send this stuff back out and there's some happy folks out there right now, gleefully playing with your old CoCo stuff and putting it to good use. They thank you, too. ;) The project is officially closed, alas. I'll still take any CoCo stuff you intend to throw out, and I'll continue to pass it along to others. I just can't afford to pay more than postage for common stuff anymore on account I'm running out of CoCo cash! :) So, if you want to donate it to the cause, by all means drop me an email. If not, PLEASE list it on eBay or post to one of the message boards out there. There's plenty of people that would love to have it!!!
On to the collecting... While things have certainly been slow in the TRS-80 listings, there's been stuff worth considering, particularly if you're looking for things to use with your system and not just to collect. That's been the picture for awhile now, of course. Here's a few items that caught my eye:
eBay: Lot of 7 Tandy Color Computer Games (item 270118018090 end time May-13-07 17:22:44 PDT)
This lot has a couple of CoCo 1/2 titles and five CoCo 3 titles. Fairly used, but include the box and instructions. Pretty nice lot if you want to jump start your collection. All of these are pretty good games, with Sub Battle, Thexder, King's Quest III, Koronis Rift, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Shanghai and Interbank Incident.
eBay: Supersound audio for the Tandy Color Computer 3 (item 250112309877 end time May-11-07 16:34:57 PDT)
This is a CoCo 3 program I'm not familiar with. Appears to be some sort of sounds digitizing system. Includes instructions and original disk. The original is damaged, so a working backup is also included. Looks pretty neat and, obviously, exceedingly rare!
eBay: Vintage TRS-80 plus many extras!!! all in original box. (item 330116970408 end time May-12-07 15:45:04 PDT)
Good looking and mostly complete CoCo 1 system with most of the original fixings, tape drive, and a pair of stubbies in the box. There's some tapes, too, but alas the contents aren't listed. Shipping is a bit (okay exceedingly) steep.
eBay: TRS-80 Color Computer Learning Lab - LN (item 300108290786 end time May-08-07 19:36:50 PDT)
You know, I've never run the tapes on this. Had it for years. Weird. Anyhoo, these don't come looking decent much. This one is not bad at all. Those old Tandy binders yellow pretty bad, destroying the manuals and tapes. This one appears complete, but the pictures aren't the clearest.
eBay: TANDY TRS 80~INTERBANK INCIDENT~ON FLOPPYS~VIDEO GAME (item 170108279633 end time May-09-07 21:59:00 PDT)
Great game, fair but complete copy. Worth playing on your CoCo 1/2.
eBay: TANDY TRS 80 DRAGON FIRE CARTRIDGE~VINTAGE VIDEO GAME (item 170108279018 end time May-09-07 21:51:12 PDT)
Another fun game, this one full of dragon action. Just the pak and the manual, but it's rare enough to warrant a good look.
eBay: TANDY TRS 80~SHAMUS~ON FLOPPY~VIDEO GAME~1983~RARE (item 170108274674 end time May-09-07 21:09:11 PDT)
Another fairly rare OS-9 disk game.
eBay: Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer,printer, manuals, NR (item 140114215503 end time May-09-07 14:57:35 PDT)
And another very nice CoCo 1. This was is appears to be a 26-3002 from 1982. They didn't show the other side of the box, but it appears to be Color BASIC only.
eBay: TANDY COLOR COMPUTER 3 128K STD.TV, VIDEO, RGB NIB (item 260114200944 end time May-07-07 14:24:28 PDT)
Wow. A complete, pretty much brand new CoCo 3. It's not mint (the box has been opened), but it's about as close as you get on eBay. Collector's take note!
eBay: Radio Shack Service Manual for TRS-80 Color Computer (item 120115445044 end time May-08-07 18:54:30 PDT)
Pretty rare service manual (the second one, the first is green) for the 3001/3002. If you own one of these machines this is a Good Thing to have.
Not too bad actually. :)
Folks are buying, though, and seeing a lot of new people I haven't seen bidding before. Software and paks are going strong and pulling in some record prices. Loads of CoCo 2s selling as well! Some sales of note:
eBay: Tandy TRS-80 TRS80 Cassette Recorder Cable 26-1207 NOS (item 110121071330 end time May-05-07 17:29:09 PDT)
Holy crap! This tape deck cable and, in another auction, a CoCo serial cable, sold for nearly US$55.00!!! Now where are all those extra cable I have laying about here... I need some cash!
eBay: TANDY TRS 80 GRAPHIC PAK CARTRIDGE AND BOOK~'82~RARE (item 170106092452 end time May-02-07 22:51:35 PDT)
This very nice looking Graphic Pak and manual (no original packaging) went for a whopping US$17.00!
eBay: TANDY TRS 80~PEGASUS~ON FLOPPY~VIDEO GAME~1985~RARE (item 170106089801 end time May-02-07 22:18:44 PDT)
Pegasus and The Phantom Riders, great and rare game, excellent condition floppy package, complete, US$15.50. Bumped up the price guide a bit, but too few copies recorded to get a good accurate read.
eBay: TANDY TRS 80 ROBOT BATTLE ~ADV. IN PROGRAMMING~'81~RARE (item 170106080397 end time May-02-07 21:29:26 PDT)
Darn rare game by itself. Even rarer complete in package. Sold for about US$10.50. This is the first price guide capture.
eBay: Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer Software SPIDERCIDE (item 320107737024 end time May-01-07 21:37:31 PDT)
Super rare in any condition, this was a still shrinked copy of the Spiderside pak. I didn't bid on this because, well, I'm an idiot. Sold for about US$26.00.
eBay: Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer Software POLTERGEIST (item 320107737000 end time May-01-07 21:37:27 PDT)
Still shrinked Poltergiest pak. See, above idiot excuse. Sold for US$7.50.
eBay: TRS 80/Radio Shack/Tandy - 56 carts-manuals-some new (item 270113224835 end time Apr-30-07 19:12:59 PDT)
WOOO! Probably the biggest dollar auction for the CoCo I've seen in a long time. Big fat lot of 56 paks went for US$196.33. Dang.
eBay: 31 5.25" Floppy Disks with Tandy Color Computer Stuff (item 110119984023 end time Apr-30-07 18:16:51 PDT)
This grab bag of CoCo disks (no identifications) went for a solid $31.00. Hope they got something good!
eBay: VINTAGE Tandy TRS 80 Color Computer 2 LOADED NO RESERVE (item 130104018628 end time Apr-28-07 13:59:17 PDT)
Gorgeous and complete CoCo 2 lot. Went for a very nice $104.00. Seller made a great sale, and the seller got a darn good looking (and handy) CoCo 2 setup. Hope he gets a ton of enjoyment out of it.
eBay: tandy trs-80 touch pad mint in box (item 300104705737 end time Apr-28-07 08:42:03 PDT)
Pretty much brand new one. I think these got a bit over valued, so I chopped the price guide listing down considerably after this one and another didn't sell several times in a row. This one went for US$15.50.
eBay: TC^3 SCSI Controller and drive system - Color Computer (item 110117265941 end time Apr-26-07 16:38:08 PDT)
Okay, and we'll finish up with this Cloud-9 TC^3 SCSI setup. This isn't vintage equipment, but it was still fun to see it come up for sale. This one went with Jaz drive and 4X CD ROM drive plus the controller for US$80.00. Great deal considering the controller alone sells for $75.00 new (without the real time clock, which isn't mentioned in the auction).
Final note, I'll going to try (for awhile anyhow) to switch posting the CoCo Collector more regularly on Tuesdays nights instead of Sunday and as things pop up. I'll post hot single items as they come up, but most of it will be on the one night. I'm hoping this switch will a) give it some freakin regularity (and hey, when you're my age, being regular is great), and 2) let me update the price guide more consistently. Might as well have a go at it, right?! :)
Angel's Luck,
Capt.
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