17 Jul
2024
17 Jul
'24
3:49 a.m.
What else does this apply to? I believe I have a near complete set of the CLOAD-80
cassette magazine for the TRS-80, and a few issues of at least one wanna-be imitation.
Were there floppy disk "magazines" for first gen IBM-PC?
I have years of saved logs from connecting to ward and randy's CBBS as well as several
TRS-80 BBSes. Printed and on 5.25" floppies. I was trying to recover the floppies,
but got distracted, and stopped working on that. (aside: I should think 100% accurate OCR
should be possible for dot matrix printouts, but have never seen such a program)
the IEEE had a (short lived?) professional journal on personal computers, I think, and
these would have been available on paper or microfiche as they were printed.
Hardware: so I should not be sending my 8086, 80286 and 80386 computers to be recycled?
Other things I've never noticed on ebay might be super valuable rather than worthless?
like a big board (Z-80 CP/M system)
an early Canon inkjet printer where you could swap out the print head for a scanner head?
(I bought the scanner head after I had stopped using the printer, and bought a real
scanner before getting around to installing the replaceable one)
I've never seen networking stuff being sold (as retro), only cisco 2500 and newer for
people going for certifications, am I just looking in the wrong places? I have four AGS-1
routers (before variable submitting) though IIRC I figured out 3 were plus and one not,
and various software levels, I bought them hoping to mix and match for a super system, but
some boards did not get recognized in other systems). And a few IBM and other routers
from that vintage. such as 10 megabit fiber, FDDI, CDDI, token ring.
aside: I've seen references to ONE megabit unshield twisted pair (I assume the old 4
prong phone cords), does ANY museum have that, working or not?
--Carey