I've been working on a machine since early October that has seen a very
rough life. My inventory found it to be an IV/70 that was upgraded with an
IV/90 expansion chassis, an NP80 peripheral controller and a Wangco tape
system that I only received the the formatter for. I've been trying to
document most of the work so far on the vcfed forum and have a massive
payload of board and cable photos & board slot arrangements. There was also
boards for additional communication, disk and printing options I did not
receive and by backwards chance whie I do not have a terminal display I DO
have a keyboard, so that suddenly makes a keyboard-less terminal
considerably more desireable to me. I've sent a copy of the images off to Al
and to Gil Carrick over at the MITA but if anyone here wants a copy I can
send them a compressed file. It's 720mb in total. He has also supplied me
with some extra information and offered to loan a few items to assist in
testing but he has software and card stacks I currently cannot image and are
currently not imaged anywhere else that I have found. At this point I've
nailed down power supply and capacitor issues and am still working with
cabling and very, very little documentation, so I'm starting to run into
problems finding solutions for a number of problems regarding damaged
components and the IV/90 interconnect. I don't have the original IV/70
boardset for debugging.
Sellam, it was alluded that one point you also had a system. Is that still
the case? Does anyone have any additional information that can be grouped
together while I'm working to get this machine running again?
-John
This eBay seller reached out to me and said they had 4 of these things + a disk controller that they’re trying to get rid of ASAP, ignore the list price and message them. I am not affiliated, had just previously messaged them inquiring if they had NonStop media for it and they do. I don’t have the means to go get these things so figured I’d post here so hopefully they don’t end up scrapped.
[https://www.ebay.com/itm/255471320134](https://www.ebay.com/itm/25547132013…
Commodore 64's generally sell for between $75-$200 these days on eBay.
Finding good, working ones (working SID, VIC-II, etc.) with clean cases
that don't have broken edges or inner tabs is getting harder.
The C128D is a much different story. Those were not produced in nearly the
numbers of the C64. I only came across one in all my days of collecting
(that used to be in my collection).
Sellam
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 2:02 PM John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com> wrote:
> At 03:30 PM 12/12/2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
> >$700 for a C64? Egads, you've been watching too much bad cable TV.
>
> Hmm, not really. My memory was a little off... it was a C-128D
> system from my warehouse that sold a year ago for almost $700.
>
> - John
>
>
At 03:30 PM 12/12/2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
>$700 for a C64? Egads, you've been watching too much bad cable TV.
Hmm, not really. My memory was a little off... it was a C-128D
system from my warehouse that sold a year ago for almost $700.
- John
At 09:53 AM 12/12/2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
>No wonder the prices on vintage computer stuff has been going through the
>roof on eBay over the past couple years.
If you spent $1,000 on a Commodore 64 system in 1985,
that's about $2,800 in today's dollars, courtesy of inflation.
A working C-64 system might go for $700 on eBay today? But people
were giving them away not long ago. It's the bathtub curve.
I have a bunch of old Amiga posters up there now. I thought they'd
fetch nice prices but they've seen little interest so far.
I have other R@RE items I'll list. Who knows how they'll do.
I have a NewTek Digiview digitizer that is the populated circuit board.
The chips have not been sanded to remove their numbers, nor is
it potted in epoxy like all the retail production units.
I saw a recent sale of a Digiview-labelled parallel port gender-changer
that went for $30. Go figure. I have at least one.
At 10:06 AM 12/12/2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
>Holy crap, someone actually paid $810 for it?
They paid almost another $200 on top for the eBay global shipping program
and custom duties, too, as I had said I'll only ship to the USA.
- John
Hi all,
After some discussion on reddit about russian PDP-11 clones, i made the (perhaps erronous) claim that the PDP series in general was cloned by the Soviets.
I’m aware that there was a lot of QBUS/LSI PDP-11 clones, and depite poor documentation, there is significant evidence of PDP-8 clones. Also, depite not strictly a “PDP”, the VAX series was also cloned.
However, i’m curious whether anyone has any evidence of either the 18-bit or 36-bit PDP machines being cloned? I imagine that given the rather lacklustre success of the 18-bit series, that there would have been less demand for an 18-bit PDP machine in the Soviet Union, but i find it quite hard to believe that no attempt to clone the PDP-6 and PDP-10 machines would have been attempted.
Does anyone here have any information on such clones?
Cheers,
Josh Rice
At 01:20 AM 12/12/2022, John Herron via cctalk wrote:
>I haven't found the episode yet but this is their website with what I
>assume is the poster.
>https://gspawn.com/products/apple-computer-poster-map-of-silicon-valley-in-….
>They are asking $799.00.
That is a similar style, but not my poster. Mine was landscape, larger,
not branded by Apple. I can't read the copyright in the lower left.
My listing is still up: https://www.ebay.com/itm/334649989332
- John
I watched the correct episode but posted the wrong link.
Here is the link to the SF episode ==>
https://play.history.com/shows/pawn-stars-do-america/season-1/episode-3
Sellam
On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 5:00 PM ED SHARPE <couryhouse(a)aol.com> wrote:
> I said
> Sf. You have link for Seattle. Try the sf one!
>
>
> Sent from the all new AOL app for Android
> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aol.mobile.aolapp>
>
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 5:45 PM, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
> <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> I found the episode ==>
> https://play.history.com/shows/pawn-stars-do-america/season-1/episode-4
>
> I watched through the entire insidious thing. Unfortunately, the Silicon
> Valley poster never comes up.
>
> However, there is a Apple ][+ that they buy for $700 (lol) at timemark
> 1:55, and at 17:21 some jabronis bring in some mini stand-up arcade games
> and then they eventually end up in their warehouse full of pinball
> machines.
>
> What an obnoxious show. It's just Antiques Roadshow but with bad dialogue
> and annoying personalities.
>
> Regardless, if you can remember which episode the poster was in, I'd
> still like to watch that.
>
> Sellam
>
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 12:19 PM ED SHARPE <couryhouse(a)aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Sellam, Yes the episode was there special held in San Francisco in the
> > pawn stars do America series that aired a week or so before the list
> > member was selling these? Ed#
> >
> > Sent from the all new AOL app for Android
> > <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aol.mobile.aolapp>
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 12:40 PM, Sellam Abraham
> > <sellam.ismail(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ed,
> >
> > Do you remember the episode?
> >
> > Sellam
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 10:37 AM ED SHARPE via cctalk <
> > cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> > Having a good hi Def scan would indeed be nice.
> > Having this thing show up on pawn stars probably helped kick the price
> > up.Ed#
> >
> > Sent from the all new AOL app for Android
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 6:18 PM, Don R via cctalk<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
> >
> > wrote: I’m surprised no one has scanned one for upload to archive.org.
> > Would that reduce its auction value? ;)
> >
> > Don Resor
> >
> > Sent from someone's iPhone
> >
> > > On Dec 10, 2022, at 5:01 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk <
> > cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 5:59 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
> > > cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >>> On 12/10/22 18:27, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Well, she went for $810 to a map dealer in London, and he had to pay
> > >>> about another $200 for the eBay global shipping program and duties.
> > >>>
> > >>> I asked one of the other losing bidders about what I had here and why
> > it
> > >>> was popular... he said "Dealers are collecting them and
> > >>> trying to sell them at various price points. So far sales
> > >>> have been pretty minimal at anything over $1000. The
> > >>> exception is that some libraries are starting to collect
> > >>> them with an eye on the future."
> > >>>
> > >>> I'll see if I can stitch a good scan before I ship it out.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> I wonder what my Unix Wizard poster is worth? (not that I would ever
> > >> part with it!!)
> > >>
> > >
> > > Last I priced mine, they were going for 100-200 USD. But there aren't
> > many
> > > for sale ...
> > >
> > > Warner
> > >
> > >>
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
I have an HP R/382 workstation with a defective SCSI hard drive. I'd prefer to replace it with a RaSCSI instead of another ancient and failure-prone rotating hard drive. Unfortunately, I my R/382 can't find the RaSCSI virtual drive to initialize it. Has anyone successfully used an RaSCSI in an HP workstation? If so, how did you do it?
Thanks for your insights!
Stan
