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There's this awesome local store for me that bought a huge collection this last weekend, called AMAZING_HEROES. The guy gave me his box of broken systems, which included these :

Here's some pictures of the broken systems :
5200, Atari 1200 XL, Intellivision, Colecovision x2, TI-994A
[img width=700 height=525]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/Xieflow/Collection3/CIMG0695.jpg[/img]
5 broken 2600s
[img width=700 height=525]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/Xieflow/Collection3/CIMG0697.jpg[/img]

I also bought a 7800 with a handful of games (for $30), and a Fairchild Channel F (for $10), which unfortunately did not have any games. He had some other crazy stuff in stock, like Rubik's Cube for the 2600.

Here's those two systems :
[img width=700 height=525]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/Xieflow/Collection3/CIMG0698.jpg[/img]

Anyone know where I can find good resources on fixing up old systems?

Anyone know where I can find some Fairchild Channel F games?

Nice haul!
If you want to get those systems working, the first thing you should do is take them apart, give them a good cleaning, and then check for loose/broken solder points. That usually cures 90% of broken systems with no moving parts.

Nice haul, dude! Good luck getting those babies working. I'll second what NES_Rules said - take them apart and give them a good cleaning. Heat up a soldering iron and just fiddle around. If you can get those 2600's working, you could make yourself a pretty nice profit. Good luck!

Nice haul and good karma coming your way.

Thanks guys! I went back to that store today and traded a copy of Alundra and Alundra 2, along with some ultra common NES games for a working 5200 and 9 games.

I did some research on the Channel F, and found it had games built in, so I booted that up and played some pong variation.

Before this, I had not really touched the non-mainstream '80s and '70s systems. Pretty awesome stuff. I'm tempted to try a Channel F homebrew.

edit: I went about testing the 2600 systems today. Two of the five systems worked FLAWLESSLY, a third worked poorly, and the other two didn't work at all. Oddly enough, my old "working" system would not work, the signal was just no good.

I think one of the two working systems might be a heavy sixer, but I'm not sure. I was going to check on Atari Age, but that forum is locked down and my account is still activating. Anyone here want to help, here's some pics (next to a standard 2600).

[img width=700 height=525]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/Xieflow/heavysixer/CIMG0700.jpg[/img]
[img width=700 height=525]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/Xieflow/heavysixer/CIMG0699.jpg[/img]
[img width=700 height=525]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/Xieflow/heavysixer/CIMG0704.jpg[/img]

Turns out the broken 5200 works fine, as well. If I had the cables and some games for the Colecovisions and Intellivisions, I would not be surprised if they worked.