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
This might be a bit off topic, so forgive me if so.
The issue is a 24VAC motor with one connection to 24VAC and the other
gated via two switches. The first switch is a momentary one and the
second is in parallel and connected to the motor. A long enough
momentary depression on the first switch actuates the electric motor
enough to close the second switch, which then stays closed for 1 revolution.
The problem is that a quick enough press and release of the first switch
does not allow the motor to move far enough to close the second switch.
Given the configuration, my general plan was a small one shot timer
circuit that energized when the switch was initially depressed and then
closed a relay in parallel with the first 2 switches, with a time period
that was 1/10 to 1/2 the time of the motor revolution. a quick close and
release of the first switch would start the timer, which would then
close the parallel switch and then open it a short time later, and then
the motor switch, which would still be closed, could signal the end of
the cycle.
But, I thought I'd ask around and see if a simpler option was available.
Jim
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Jim Brain
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www.jbrain.com
Hi,
Has anyone else noticed that the list server is screwing up digest emails,
starting with Volume #115?
Prior to #115, each message would start with:
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 18:49:31 +0000 (WET)
From: ...
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Ident...
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Message-ID: <01SKKMC7X5CG8WYOLI(a)beyondthepale.ie>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN
As of 115, that demarcation has disappeared.
Here's an example from #119, message #6:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Devin D <lyokoboy0(a)gmail.com>
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Cc:
Bcc:
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 12:48:23 -0500
Subject: [cctalk] Guidance on repairing Dec PDP 11 System
Greetings,
Note that that's *NOT* a "forwarded" message (in the normal CCTALK digest
sense), but the start of a new message.
Since most people are *EXTREMELY BAD* at trimming the messages they are
replying to, the lack of proper message demarcation makes reading the
digest quite difficult.
Sadly, the listserver doesn't post the version number of the its code with
each digest (well, as far as I could see), so I can't definitively tie this
to a version change.
Can this be reverted/fixed, please?
thanks,
Stan
Dear all,
I am still trying to declutter enough to empty the storage container,
and have room to move around in my basement. I have decided not to
renew the lease on the storage container on 10 January, so stuff needs
to go by then.
The following stuff will go in the skip if no one comes and collects it
by early January:
D-Scan video printer
DECwriter 2 printing terminal
A device for cleaning DEC RK05 platters, poor condition, mechanicals
corroded, no cleaning pads or fluid - probably display only.
The following stuff will probably also go in the skip:
Teletype 43 (the dot-matrix Teletype - this is rare but boring; probably
rare because boring)
A wide range of other small dot-matrix printers - let me know if you are
interested in anything of that nature, and I'll try and make a list.
The following are available free to anyone prepared to collect:
IBM System/23 Datamaster - complete with (yet another!) dot matrix
printer. I have some software for this as well.
ACT Sirius 1. A fairly complete system including some software
(Wordstar and some accounting packages). I may need help disentangling
Sirius stuff from Apricot stuff, since the same ACT logo often appears
on both.
The following are available, but I'd like to be offered a non-negative
amount of money:
Apple II systems. Four system units (I think they are two //e, one ][
plus and one ][ Europlus, but I can check. Some disk drives. I should
be able to find a monitor or two. Quite a lot of manyals, plug-in
cards, probably some software disks - but I may need help sorting out
Apple II disks from others. Some of the plug-in cards are prototyping
cards, and I think one has been set up to talk to some analogue gaming
paddles.
Research Machines 380Z. (One of the people who collected other stuff
from me has expressed an interest in this, and his prior interest will
be taken into account in considering offers.) I have a system box (I
haven't yet looked inside) with diskette drives on the front; I also
have a GIPB (IEEE-488) card and a rather nice I/O prototyping card - it
is pre-populated with three PIO chips and one other large chip, all in
wire-wrappable sockets, and lots of space for a homebrew interface.
A Victor V86P laptop. I know nothing about this machine, but it has the
Sirius logo on it (I think the Sirius 1 was sold under the Victor brand
in some places, so this figures)
As before, please reply to declutter(a)axeside.co.uk, whether or not you
reply here. If I get interest in some of the machines, I'm happy to
look more closely at them and try to answer queries. In general, I'd
prefer people to come and collect stuff, but for the smaller items (e.g.
the Victor laptop) I'd be happy to discuss shipping. Collecting stuff
yourself is a more reliable way of getting the parts you need (e.g.
cables), and of finding other stuff that I don't mind getting rid of.
As regards the systems for which I want money, I do not guarantee to
accept the highest offer; as I said, I have already had interest in the
380Z and this will be taken into account.
Finally, I am trying to contact Anthony Sibley. We started making
arrangements for him to collect some stuff, and then I stopped getting
replies to my e-mails. Either he is not receiving them or I am not
receiving his replies. Please get in touch, or your TU16 will go
elsewhere, maybe even in the skip.
Philip.
I have two Power General FLU4-150 power supplies, apparently set up to
be used in some kind of a server. They have an extra board that
includes some Schottky diodes, presumably so they can be used in
parallel without a failing one damaging a working one.
I don't know the precise model numbers, but they provide +/- 5v and +/-
12v.
One (or maybe both) would fit in a Postal Service medium flat-rate box.
Yours for the price of a PDF shipping label.
I also have five power supplies that appear to have come from Dell
servers. I don't know their specs. They have a weird connector that
actually has a Molex number (that I have forgotten).
Let me know if you might want any of the Dell power supplies and I'll
work out which box would be needed for shipping.
If you can't use them for their originally-intended purposes, maybe you
can convert them to lab-bench supplies.
Van Snyder
