I'm cleaning out my garage and while I'm not quite ready to get rid
of the Whizzer, the Flexowriter, or the blacksmith's vise, I have decided to
pass Doctor Pong on to a new owner. No, this is not some kindly old G.P. that
lives in my garage, but a rare specimen of a product that didn't quite make it.
The idea was to package PONG (the original coin-op product) in a small cabinet
with a start button instead of a coin switch. Doctors were supposed to buy the
things and put it in their waiting rooms to entertain those patients who still
had use of their eyes and hands. Why a doctor who hadn't even paid for his
Reader's Digest subscription since 1956 would spend a couple hundred bucks on
such a thing is beyond me but let's get on with it.

	This thing is about the size of an industrial grade breadbox and of
"contemporary styling" (roughly contemporary with the AMC Gremlin) finished in
imitation woodgrain and black. If you remember Star Trek episode "Is there in
truth no beauty?", about the Medusan ambassador and the blind lady... well,
picture the ambassador's box and you have the general idea. 

	I don't have the original monitor (never did), but it used a 12" B/W
Motorola, and I will throw in one of those, scavenged from one of the old test
jigs. Two problems, you may need to cobble some brackets and the monitor I have
has developed problems related to sweep (I haven't fired it up in so long I
don't remember whether it was horizontal or vertical). That's about it for the
bad news, as the logic board worked last time I hooked it up to a working
monitor. Anyway, it probably could be put in near-mint condition in an evening
by someone used to working on TVs (a group which does not include me).

	I just know that someone out there NEEDS this priceless reminder of our
heritage, and so it shall be truly priceless! First VaxMail reply takes it,
FOB the parking lot.
				Mike

	The Doctor Pong is gone (long live Doctor Pong).
	On a more practical note, does anybody need an aluminum-frame
sliding window, approx 48"h by 60"w, including one 30" wide screen.
It would make a great patio door for dwarfs (or playhouse) and is
hereby offered at the same price as the Doctor...
	How about a 1949 Indian 30-50 scout? gonna hafta charge for it,
but... oh well, just when I thought I was on a roll...
					Mike