It all depends what you want to do with them and your expectations. There are groups of collectors out there who make all sorts of software & hardware for "vintage" computers to do modern/unexpected things, such as Ethernet cards for Apple II or hooking up an old teletype to a Linux box and having it print a Twitter feed.

Sure, old machines aren't practical for modern everyday computing needs, but they still are pretty capable, especially for secondary uses or to hobbyists/collectors.

That makes perfect sense, since Wico WAS a major supplier of parts to the arcade industry before they got into the consumer joystick business.

I still have a pair of the Wico joysticks for the Atari 5200, with mechanical levers to switch between analog operation and pseudo-digital return-to-center operation. They are ideal for that machine.

Awesome score, these old 64's have a large following online. You can now find nearly any program or game ever written for them online.

Im currently building a cassette player emulator adapter for my Vic 20 (will work on the c64 too!). You download games to a usb drive and plug them into the adapter, allowing you to have play anything. Only 20-ish bucks to build :)

http://sweetlilmre.blogspot.com/2014...-c64-tape.html

I know of one with no monitor for $50 at a thrift.

I have the commodore family here.The Commodore color monitors make good VCR monitors.I have a few here.

Easy as pie way to get online, get your butt on telnet. for about 15 bucks :)

https://1200baud.wordpress.com/2012/...-less-than-15/

That things looks VERY white... or was it just the light in the photo?

If it's really that white... I dont think that they were THAT white originally.

Wico (wye-co) made many of the joysticks (and other controls) used in the arcades. They were good stuff that just *never* broke. They were also made in America.

I hated the cheap Atari 2600 style sticks commodore sold which used those stupid steel spring buttons against a circuit board. If the switches didn't fail, the white inner stick/contact pusher failed. The real Atari ones were no better...

I love the original atari joysticks that came with my 2600..... Much better than the plastic pieces of garbage that came with my Atari flashback!! (Which I got rid of,I didnt like any games on it and the games dont LOOK THE SAME on that thing))

For those who like old computers::an Old TRS_80 model4 on Shopgoodwill in CA.

http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions...-25047607.html

Myself---NOT interested.

I have a soft-spot for TRS-80s. I would impulse-buy that Model 4 if it was close and I could pick it up. I doubt goodwill could ship it properly. The last one I bought on ebay ended up smashed.

A friend of mine has a TRS-80 .. I dont think he liked it that much as he always called it "TRASH 80"

Ah man!!

Back in the mid-90's...when I worked for the Tandy Service center--the computer guys called the TRASH 80's ...Too !! (this was during the era of Pentium 1-2, maybe P3 had come out--before I left in late summer of 97.).

ANOTHER vintage computer on the GW site :: This one is an Apple II.
Comes wiht drive and mouse...


http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions...-25136193.html

Sir, I have an 8086 that is both an FTP server, and also used as my IRC client at times. On the internet. Also, it makes a good banking computer, because if anyone broke in, they aren't going to steal it, or the floppy disks the bank data is actually on. Also, I REALLY love those buckling spring keyboards, and a real monochrome screen telling me how poor I really am.

Also, this 8086 has logged enough days on IRC to actually help fight some crimes that happened on a channel I opped when I wasn't looking. Data forwarded to police, arrests made. So, I find that quite useful, and it DID something.