Some rare and awesome Gottlieb history!

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Not gonna type it all again, but something arrived in the mail today that is pretty cool if you're a fan of Gottlieb and/or Tim Skelly games!

check it out over at coinopspace.com!

http://www.coinopspace.com/profiles/blogs/some-awesome-arcade-gaming

The complete original 80's Gottlieb/Mylstar developers workstation used by Tim Skelly and David Thiel to create Reactor! Doesn't get much rarer than this :)

/brian
 
I was nodding all through that read-through, thinking to myself - "Well, would you just look at that."


Who would have thought that was still around?
 
very cool indeed.

I was lucky enough, and maybe Brian was as well, to have Tim Skelly send me
the actual print out of the Reactor code that he wrote. Well, it was a copy of the code
but Tim broke it up into different sections and had them bound.
 
Wow, very cool indeed. Start making new sounds with that sound turtle ASAP! :)

Just goes to show there is still stuff floating out there somewhere.
 
That reminds me, what ever happened to the guy that bought the Vid Kids development system?

ken
 
That's cool.. That looks like a nice full height MFM drive... Have not seen one of those since back in the day. :) My original MFM drive is the only one I don't still own... I'm sick I tell you. :rolleyes:
 
Seagate themselves are going to do data recovery on that drive so who knows what treasures will be on there!
 
If I get time this weekend, I'll check in my pile of "that was going to be thrown out, but I'm too lazy" computer junk. I think I still have a couple of those Seagates. I don't remember if they were 10MB or 20MB drives, but IIRC that Winchester cage will run them. God knows what is on them.....probably not pron, I don't think I started collecting that until I got a 40MB drive...;)

ken
 
I hope all this stuff works truly an awesome find. I would be paranoid as hell working with stuff this rare. The first thing I would want to do is back up any custom programed chips since everything is basically irreplaceable.
 
Man that is AWESOME! Can't wait to here what you find on there!
 
Cool stuff indeed! :cool: I take it there was no paper documentation? Ugh. Hopefully there's some decent files on the HD that will help. At least the hardware isn't wirewrap!!!
 
Check it out

Jeff lives pretty close to me. When he gets further along I will have to stop by his place and check this stuff out for myself.
 
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