Dear Colleagues,
I am the information systems coordinator of a large social service
agency in Boston that owns a System 36 that we no longer use.
In addition to the system itself, we have a printer, software, manuals,
and several workstations.
Can you give us some assistance in donating or recycling our
equipment?
Many thanks!
Best regards from Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Information Systems
Family Service of Greater Boston
34 1/2 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
617-523-6400, ext. 5506 (voice)
617-523-3034 (fax)
fsgb(a)fsgb.org (internet)
deborah909(a)aol.com (internet)
Holepunching them doesn't work. I tried. Format resets the drive about 8
times and says Device Error. Attempting to boot from one says Controller
Failure. I know the device works, I use it for the 3 RX02s I do have.
Oh well.
BTW, anyone know where I can get an RL02 pack cheap?
> You folks are all young sprouts... when I was in H.S. (1938) our AV
>equipment was a wind up phonograph (disks, not cylinders,) and a lantern
>slide projector. Once someone from Bell Telephone brought in a movie
>projector and showed films! Calculations? they were done with a pencil on
>"foolscap". And no, I didn't have Socrates for a teacher.
I went through HS on a slide rule. Someone brought in an electromechanical
calculator to my math class, and I fell in love with it. <sigh>
ps Where did "Foolscap" get its name? E-mail me... (extremely off-topic)
manney(a)nwohio.com
Of the Seimens FDD 100-5 drives on my Osborne I, drive A is worn and
tempermental. I am trying to switch A and B. There are no obvious jumpers,
and cable connections are identical to both drives.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks
Charlie Fox
Just got this, if anybody is interested then follow up directly to him.
------- Forwarded Message
From: leelouden(a)webtv.net (Lee Louden)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 16:44:01 -0700
To: collector(a)heydon.org
Subject: TRS-80 Model II
I have, and am currently using the above mentioned. It is a complete
system with original desk and matching printer stand. The original
system without extra software sold for 10k. I am the original owner and
have taken good care of it . This is the 8" floppy drive system with a
triple expansion bay, modem and daisey wheel printer. Any interest?
------- End of Forwarded Message
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Kevan
Old Computer Collector: http://staff.motiv.co.uk/~kevan/
Well I been at again and found some good ones, list to follow. We've got a
big Hamfest and computer sale this weekend in St. Paul (MN) and I hope to
find a few things there got my ticket already. Well on to the list:
1. SOROC IQ120 for $5, this is the first monitor I purchased back 1978 for
my Nortstar that I got for $3200 wow now a get them for 1 to 5 dollars.
2. Amstrad pc-20 with all the manuals but no monitor for free.
3. CPT SRS45 tower with monitor but no KB $5.00
4. IBM 3864-2 type II for free
5. Mac SE with 1 mbyte ram, 800k FD and 20sc HD for $5
6. Data General One with power brick and it works $5
7. Zenith ZF-158-42 for $5
8. Laser Pal 386sx with KB, no monitor, manuals and software disk $5
9. IBM type 3476 monitor for $5
10. two boxes full of manuals and old software for free
11. Sun model 4/20FM-8 monitor for $5
12. Sun 3/110c-B cpu chip taken out but got the case and some boards for $5
13. Apple MAC II no KB or monitor for $5
14. 2 Sum mice and two KB a type 5c and a type with cables for free
15. MT1000 controller that works for free
16. Sun 3/260HM-8 case only all the boards were gone for $5
17. SPARCstation IPC with HD taken and memory all gone and unit taken apart
so the guy gave it to me for free.
That's the short list the first three days of this week and I have picked up
over 35 items but the wife is starting to ask questions. I've had to rent
another storage unit to hold my collection. I'm working with two different
groups right now trying to get a building to house a museum and hope to get
some State and federal help with the funds. Keep computing !!
Today I went to 3 thrift stores from Hopkins to Bloomington to St. Paul and
found a few items. Sun 3/160S-4 seems to be all there will try to fire it
up this weekend, another Sun 4/20FM-8 monitor, Apple language cards, tape
and HD rack for Sun 160, Apple IIc Plus with the 3.5 FD and built-in power
supply will test this weekend this is my second one of these I got the first
in St. Louis MO this past summer at a flea market, I got some other items
but have not written them down yet it was too cold at the storage unit so I
just unloaded the car and left. The highest price item was $10, the other
were either $5 or free. Good hunting to all
Roger Merchberger wrote:
> 1) I have a couple co-processors -- make me an offer.
Yes please! I need a 387SX in a 68 pin plcc to go in the bottom of a
Compaq LTE Lite 20. $15?
> 2) I saw several emulators, but the only one I found that actually worked
> well, the file was called "FRANKE87" and was German in origin. It actually
> fooled AutoCad 10 into believing there was a co-processor chip on my 386SX
> and actually did speed up FP instructions (measured with CheckIt).
Emulator doesn't interest me - I'm not likely to run much serious stuff
on my PC anyway...
> I may have a copy of it somewhere, but that's no guarantee, as my 386 has
> been sold for a coupla years now, and my P150+ doesn't need it. ;-)
You've got a WHAT? Go and wash your mouth out with soap and water and
don't ever mention the word P*****m on this list again! ;-) (At least,
not until it's ten years old)
Seriously, though, I found when looking around last year (when I
got the Compaq laptops) that most of the electronics catalogues
_didn't_ contain the 80387 any more. I must search the net...
Philip.
I hit some of the same places except garage sales. Just look out for
private thrift and talk with the manager must are willing to work with if
you take it by the load and not try to pick out just the ones you want. I
can get real low prices by working it that way, must times they don't have
that much. I talk to people at the goodwills that I meet there and give them
one of my cards my wife made. These cards id me as a Computer Collector and
gives my home phone and e-mail address. These cards have gotten me alot of
free items. Well good luck and Keep Computing !!
At 10:54 AM 10/23/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I suspect this question would be a good addition to an FAQ...
>
>Where do you tend to go to find classic computer equipment? Around here
(Delaware) I hit garage sales (pretty slim pickin's), swap meets, Salvation
Army and Goodwill. A local chemical company has a surplus disposition
center that parcels out a limited number of PC and Mac systems. In
addition, there's a twice-weekly Goodwill that has occasionally yielded
something useful.
>
>Any other suggestions?
>
>-- Tony
>
>
