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I came across these copies of the well known "THE book" by atari. It is a guide for servicing game pcb's and monitors for those who do not know it. A must have for every arcade collector.

They are like brand new and available for 20 euro a piece. I have only 8 left. Sold out means sold out.





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Re: FS: THE BOOK by Atari, a guide to electronic game operation and servicing
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2010, 11:44:23 AM »
Sorry, could you scannerize the guide for those not interested in "the real thing" ?

thanx
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Re: FS: THE BOOK by Atari, a guide to electronic game operation and servicing
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2010, 11:58:47 AM »
it's already available, for example here: http://pdf.textfiles.com/technical/atari_thebook.pdf
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Re: FS: THE BOOK by Atari, a guide to electronic game operation and servicing
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2010, 12:31:58 PM »
Oh, thanks Ully: googling i didn't found that link!
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Re: FS: THE BOOK by Atari, a guide to electronic game operation and servicing
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2010, 08:08:10 PM »
Are these originals (NOS) or reprints?

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Re: FS: THE BOOK by Atari, a guide to electronic game operation and servicing
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2010, 08:13:16 PM »
They are re-prints. The cover is different. Still nice to have a printed version.

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Re: FS: THE BOOK by Atari, a guide to electronic game operation and servicing
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2010, 10:32:37 PM »
They are re-prints. The cover is different.

Yeah, and the originals were not bound like a book and instead came as loose leafs in a binder...

Still nice to have a printed version.

Makes no sense to me to pay that much for an inofficial reprint that I could print out by myself from the pdf.
And to me it looks like those books were also printed from that pdf...?