On 3/21/2024 2:02 PM, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: As a buyer I have done well on eBay. As a seller all I ever did was waste my time. At sub $20 they aren't worth the effort. It would cost more than that in postage. How about an HP Scanjet IIcx scanner with SCSI interface. Other than historical value probably not much interest there either. bill

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 12:33 PM CAREY SCHUG via cctalk < cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote: It depends, usually less. Sometimes the same or more. Sellam

Why are you paying for postage as an eBay seller? Buyer paying postage is the standard.

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 4:52 PM Ali via cctalk &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote: No, from what I saw, the average price was sub-$20 including shipping. It's easy enough to ship though: a quick wrap in some bubble wrap and throw it in a USPS standard sized Priority Mail box and out it goes. A quick $5-$10 for a few minutes of your time (if you're experienced at it). Sellam

On 3/21/24 19:28, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: I recently paid $5 for a Visara terminal box, paid 45 to have it shipped from Canada.  (free trade agreement Us <-->  Canada, nope).  Anyway, won't second guess on what the buyer wants to pay vs shipping. Also isn't there a scam that Ebay uses to supply underwritten lower shipping costs?  Or is it exclusive to big sellers?  Out of touch with that.  However have seen varying versions of that on different platforms. The guy who sold the terminal made no comment, too his 5iver and sent it along.  And since I have a pile of these terminals, I'm happy to get it. thanks Jim

Here's something operators of older systems might find useful. Allied Telesis CentreCOM 210TS Twisted Pair Transciever IEE 802.3 10 BASE-T (MAU) I have 14 used and another 14 still in the box, never been opened. bill

what am I missing? I thought I put your item in search and found this: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&a… going for $10 and up (not sold) this $10 item I think I have stacks of too. <pre>--Carey</pre>

On 23/03/2024 15:56, Henry Bent via cctalk wrote The first hit on ebay.co.uk is £399, so I sense an arbitrage opportunity :-) It may take a while to sell, but I'm patient ! Antonio -- Antonio Carlini antonio(a)acarlini.com

You can list them for whatever you want, and if you are lucky someone might pay it. On the other hand, the most one has sold for on E-Bay in the past 90 days is $50 so if you want to sell them $20-$25 seems a good price point.... .. and there is one currently listed for $9.99... https://www.ebay.com/itm/326023934007 ... I think I paid around $30 for the last one I bought but it was a while ago... Dave G4UGM

Hmm. I have a drawer full of these and I think they furiously multiply in the dark like little metal network gerbils. Every so often I put one in service when a new machine arrives but I never seem to run out. Allied Telesis/Allied Telesyn kit is good stuff. I have a 10MBit hub from them that's been in continuous service since at least 1998. It won't die. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser(a)floodgap.com -- I've never had but one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it. -- Jeanne Calment ---

Nice. FWIW, 10BaseT transceivers are still made, for example https://www.l-com.com/ethernet-converters-l-com-10baset-to-t-aui-ethernet-t… and https://www.omnitron-systems.com/product-families/flexpoint-unmanaged-media… paul

On 3/25/2024 1:49 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: And, just for yocks I looked for them on the web. Amazing how many people are selling them with bogus specs like 10,000 RPM. :-) bill

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 at 18:05, Mike Stein via cctalk &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote: I believe that Bill was referring to the RZ1DB, which is a 9.1GB Quantum Atlas II. -Henry

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 at 20:14, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote: Why is there no way to read them? If you have a PC with a SCSI card you can easily boot into the Linux or BSD distro of your choice and make a dd (or ddrescue) image of the entire drive, which could then be accessed by whatever means. -Henry

Do you have just part of the RAID set, or enough disks to make a complete one? If the latter then it's a matter of reverse engineering the RAID layout, which is likely to be doable. paul

On 4/4/24 08:05, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: Just to be clear, Bill, these are the 5.25" Bernoulli drives, right? --Chuck

On 4/4/24 09:27, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > Was there any other kind? > Oh yeah, I also have one marketed for use on the Mac.  It says 88M > on the front. Zip, Jaz....all Iomega. The Zips were 100MB, 250MB and 750MB. The Jaz was 1 GB and 2 GB, if memory serves. The 88M sounds like a SyQuest drive--very popular in the 90s with the Mac crowd. Pretty much unknown in the PC world. 44M 88M and 200M, after which SyQuest went toes-up. Chuck

On 4/4/24 09:54, CAREY SCHUG wrote: The EZ 135 was yet a different format, succeeded by the EZ Flyer 230 MB. Lower-priced versions of the cartridge drives I mentioned--and utterly incompatible. Then there was the ill-fated 1GB SyQest SparQ drive, available, AFAIK, only in parallel printer port version (a big mistake). I still have one in original bubble-pack. I don't know if I ever bothered to see if it works. It was pretty clear at that time that SyQuest was in a losing position. --Chuck

Not really sure I want to get rid of them yet, but what do Apple II's go for nowadays? I have an Apple II with 2 Disk II's and a language card. I also have an Apple IIe with three external disk cards and 2 3.5" drives and 3 5.25" drives. It also has a Microsoft Soft Card for running CP/M. And I have the docs and disks. bill

What were the brand new DEC disks? Sent from my iPhone

On 4/4/2024 3:49 PM, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: Well, The SoftCard and the Language Card (why did they call it that?) both go for $100 a piece. The one is a IIe, not a \\e. There are some on eBay now for more than $2000. I wouldn't expect that but I do find it interesting that all the stuff I have is worthless unless someone else is selling it. :-) bill

On Thu, 4 Apr 2024, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: Was that "IIe", "][e", or "//e"? Speculation: The "Language Card" could be populated with a fancy BASIC (what Kurtz and Kemeny called "street BASIC"), OR COULD BE, at least in theory, populated with other languages, hence the name "Language Card". I am not aware of any successful examples of it ever being populated with anything other than BASIC. The "Soft Card" was Microsoft's first significant venture into hardware. It was incredibly successful, and Microsoft's largest revenue source in 1980. At one point, somebody at Apple said that 20% of AppleII owners had one. "The SoftCard was Paul Allen's idea.[5] Its original purpose was to simplify porting Microsoft's computer-language products to the Apple II.[6] The SoftCard was developed by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP). SCP built prototypes,[7] Don Burtis of Burtronix redesigned the card, and California Computer Systems manufactured it for Microsoft.[8] Unsure whether the card would sell, Microsoft first demonstrated it publicly at the West Coast Computer Faire in March 1980.[2][" - Wikipedia It had a Z80, and a copy of CP/M. I suspect that the name "Soft Card" might be due to its intent to open the Apple to CP/M SOFTware, particularly software that Micorsoft had originally written in 8080/Z80. There were rumors that an IBM person had one in a personal Apple, and that that caused IBM, when they went to Microsoft for BASIC, to assume that they could get CP/M (CP/M-86) through Microsoft. When Microsoft sent them to DRI for CP/M, IBM and DRI had a "culture clash" and IBM went back to Microsoft (long story, with some disagreements about details) -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com

On 4/4/2024 2:39 PM, Zane Healy wrote: Not by me. And I created it. Not sure if it was from an 11/44, 11/73 or 11/23 but it dates back to when Mentec gave me a license to run PDP-11 OSes at the University. As a matter of fact, I see where I still have the TK50 and 9-track install tapes. bill