On to Ebay

Did I ever mention this was going to be easy? I thought not! What an experience. I spent hours yesterday trying to get my find posted on Ebay and get a post done here. I used to be very active in Ebay, but after the sports card craze ended, not so much. I used to say " something well learned , never forgotten", but today I may be more in the "practice makes perfect" mold. I had a terrible time getting my pictured ready to post on Ebay. I will have to do some more work today to see what I have to do to speed up the process. They uploaded in the wrong format and couldn't be accepted, so I had to reformat them and resubmit in order to have them posted in my auction. Then to my chagrin when I tried to post my blog I got a message that the post had timed out. The message indicated everything was slow because of extreme internet traffic and to hit the back button and then try again. Trust me, you can't imagine what I felt when I hit the back button only to discover that I had failed to hit the save button before I hit the publish button and my whole entry had vanished. To say the least, it was depression time again. I decided that "enough was enough" and to wait til morning to try again. So here goes!
As I left you at the end of my last post, I indicated that I had found two little treasures that fit into my $3 budget. The first was a Roger Staubach Monday Night Football Computerized Game. To bill this game as a computerized game is being very generous by today's standards. It is computerized gaming in it's infant and most primitive stage. My research indicates that the game was produced by Aurora in 1972. Obviously in 1972 computerized gaming was in it's developmental stage and this is one of the earlier attempts to use computer knowledge for entertainment. It uses a very basic concept of light passing under a perforated grid and depending on the settings the opposing players use, light will pass through the grid and stop play when the right combination of settings is passed over. The thing that comes to mind is the old punch out computerized voting machines. You all remember Florida's "hanging chad" infamy. These chads seem to be all properly in place. The box is in good condition and all of the pieces are intact and in good condition. there is even an instructional manual in the box. For a 35 year old game it is in great condition. The little light bulb does need to be replaced, but otherwise it is ready to go. When I saw it I was taken by it because at one time I was very active in the sports memorabilia hobby and had not seen one of these items, but I see there are two others posted on Ebay at this time. I think it will be a great piece for a Dallas Cowboy collector, a Roger Staubach collector, or an early gaming collector. It is in good enough shape it could even be a nice Christmas gift for the young Cowboy fan, although I'm sure it pails in comparison to todays games. It does however require a basic knowledge of football and would require some matching of football wits and looks like it could be fun. So maybe it would be a better gift for the "old" Cowboy fan who has almost everything. Whatever, it is listed on Ebay for a $5 starting price with no reserve. If you would like to view the auction go to http://www.ebay.com/ and search item #260316712048 or simply go to the bottom of this blog and enter the item # in the Ebay search box. Things seem so much easier after a good nights sleep. I have posted my pictures here for you to see. Don't hesitate to go to Ebay and place your bid to help this process along.
Today I will be posting the second item that I found. After it is posted on EbayI will be returning here to give you the background on this neat little find and tell you as Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of the story".