[S] My whole tangle - nearly-working MB-6582; nearly-working TIA; kit for second 6582; many extras, read on for details

[emerson]

First, let me get this out of the way:  I am not interested in splitting this up;  I'm mostly only interested in shipping to the US though that's not a complete dealbreaker, given the right person.

 

I'm downsizing, can't really tinker with little fiddly electronic-y things any more, and so a bunch of these old MIDIBox projects that I nearly finished need to go.  In this collection:

-- Nearly-working MB-6582.  This is a complete unit, panels, knobs, case, display, etc, containing eight SIDs, seven actual MOS of various flavors, one ARMSID.  It is in principle complete, but it needs debugging.  It powers up, the matrix lights flicker in an interesting pattern, the display fills up, and then nothing else.  It's almost working.  Someone wiser in the ways of these things could pull it across the finish line pretty easily, I think.  Was modded to take a simple wallwart power supply, which is included.  I believe all of the SIDs work but cannot completely guarantee that.

-- Nearly-working MIDIBox TIA.  Also a complete unit, populated board, chip, Atari cartridge shell to house it, cables, almost ready to go.  This one again, nearly works but doesn't finish initializing.  Debugging in these forums a couple years ago lead to the hypothesis that the RAM chips are sketchy or poorly-soldered.  My surface-mount soldering skills are bad, so this is certainly possible.  It also just needs a little debugging and some work by someone better at this than me.  I do not have the power supply to drive this but I believe it takes a very standard one.

-- Boards and (most?) parts for a second MB-6582.  I'm not quite sure how I got here, but I have all or nearly all of the innards (apart from SIDs) for a second MB-6582, including circuit boards, LCD display, and components.  No knobs, case, panels.  I can take a more exact inventory of this if someone's interested.

-- C64 power supply, believed working.  (NB: this is NOT for the near-finished MB-6582, but for the hypothetical one still to be built.  The complete one is modded to use a wallwart.)

-- A few MIDIBox modules/boards, working -- 2xCore, 1xSID (no SID), 1xOPL (not fully tested ever).

-- About a dozen loose PICs of varying types.

-- PicKit 3

-- Edirol USB MIDI adapter + 2 MIDI cables

-- Two extra MOS SID chips, PROBABLY BAD.  I don't remember for sure but the only reason I would have set these aside in the first place and bought the ARMSID is if I couldn't get these to work.  Maybe someone else would have better luck with them.

-- Some ribbon cable and ends for connecting the smaller boards;  extra components of various types.  I can inventory these if someone's interested but there's no real treasure here, just the rest of my bits drawer.

 

I can take more pictures of this stuff as needed.

 

Looking around, I see people selling complete sometimes-flaky 6582s on Reverb for $900-ish.  I'm thinking in aggregate I'd like to start at about $1500 + shipping for this whole collection.

 

Like I mention at the top, I am not interested in splitting this up into little dribs and drabs and getting stuck holding the wee bits at the end;  I'm wanting someone who's excited about jumping into this universe to take the whole thing.  I'm in the US and mostly interested in shipping only to the US, but convince me and I might risk it.

 

A little sad to see this stuff go, but it's been sitting idle for years and I'm not going to be able to use or work on it any further, so hopefully there's someone out there who's perfect for this collection.

 

Following this thread, but also DM me if you are interested.