So, there's been a development...
I originally spotted and purchased my half-a-copy of Computer Baseball from Bob Cunningham at As Found Arcade Machines. When I purchased it, Bob mentioned that he had sold another, NIB example to a regular customer a while back, that they had in turn gotten from the Time Travel Warehouse in Canada sometime back.
Anyways, I had reached out to Bob to see if he might be willing to put me in touch with his other customer, in hopes they might be willing to take some pictures of the wiring and components in the lower cabinet. Bob told me his customer and friend Darren Carter, who, incidentally was the founder of Contours Express, a ladies-only gym chain, and had
a truly EPIC game collection, had a brain tumor, and wouldn't be able to help. I told him I was very sorry to hear that, and put aside my project for a while in favor of working on some stuff I knew I could fix, and would likely have a place in my game room.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago. I got a message from Bob telling me his friend had passed, and that his widow would likely be selling off his collection, including the new, never played, but no longer in the box, Computer Baseball. I asked him to keep me in the loop.
Sure enough, it went up for sale today, and now I'm the owner of one and a half MCI Computer Baseball games
It'll likely be a few weeks before it gets here, and there's no guarantee that one works either, but I'm hoping I can get one, if not two working games out of this situation. Bob told me they had unboxed and assembled the game at Darren's house, and he had wanted his tech to look it over before they plugged it in. So, its still very much a new, never been played game. I ran into a couple of dirty, high resistance pins in the one that I have that caused some minor issues, so it'll get a very thorough going over before I let the angry pixies in through the line cord.
Anyway, I'm pretty jazzed about this development, and the possibility of getting this project back on track!