Speaking of Osbornes, I recently ran across an Osborne 4 (I didn't
even know they went that high), in a nice blue and white molded plastic
case. The keyboard (kinda small) flipped open on hinges to reveal a
9"display, and couple drives (I think there were two), and given the
portables of the time it was reatively light! Was able to attempt a
power-up but no display... Bummer at $15 It almost went for the VFC 2.0
sale booth.. :)
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Did some updating to the PET FAQ, some notes on how to program sound.
including a table of the notes you can produce, a listing of the
extremely small but useful tape2disk program, etc. Next probably will
be PET memory maps (all three ROMs, orogonal upgrade and 4.0); I have
been attempting this the lazy route of scanning them in, but the books I
have all use such small point sizes that the OCR program has problems
translating. I will try to use a copier to enlarge them someday soon.
I have cleared space on one of my desks (my brother is now a proud
owner of a complete Amiga 500 system, which of course, I will still have
access to) to set up a PET after a few years without easy access to
one. This PET (32k upgrade ROMs) needs some work as one program keeps
locking it up, I suspect it may be one of the 6520s... It also needs to
have the RAM checked (anyone know a source for 4116-4s?) Once I get
comfortable working with this one I'll switch and see about getting the
SuperPET running and also the original PET (which I really want to get
to, as I now have an EPROM programmer to read the ROMs with.)
Another recent arrival is a package from DigiKey of 10-12/24 edgeboard
connectors, for making a PET joystick adaptor, a mini-networking project
I've been thinking about, and I may try this 'PET composite Video
Adapter' I have plans for to see if it actually does not work as Enrico
has warned me...
The PET shares space with a VIC-20 (also recently set-up) and maybe if
I can squeeze it in, a Plus/4 too.. Then I would have a large portion
of the Commodore 8-bit models runnable (C128, C-64,
Plus/4, VIC-20, PET). Some of my plans would be to refine my disk
collections and work up some menus and utilites for each of the machines
(including some sort of standardized compression/archive utility).
I am anxiously awaiting the new year as many more families upgrade
their older systems to something more contemporary and take their older
ones to yard sales, flea markets, and thrift shops (or maybe call me to
take them off their hands.)... ;)
Larry Anderson
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Found this on Usenet. Can anyone help this fellow out? I know I've got
at least one spare MicroVAX II CPU, possibly an 11/73...
Please reply directly to the author. Thanks! Attachment follows.
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From: aceware(a)iinet.net.au (Tony Epton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: WTB: 11/73 cpu chips or cards or repair. Ditto MicroVax II
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 20:52:13 GMT
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We have four 11/73 cpu cards in our museum collection which will run
the ODT but cannot execute any instructions. We suspect the CPU chips.
Can anyone source the cpu chips or the entire board at a reasonable
price or service the boards at a reasonable price.
Ditto MicroVax II cpu boards.
Thanks
Tony Epton
President
Australian Computer Museum Association (WA Branch)
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kyrrin2 {at} wiz<ards> d[o]t n=e=t
"...No matter how hard we may wish otherwise, our science can only describe
an object, event, or living creature, in our own human terms. It cannot possibly
define any of them!..."
It looks like I may have a line on a couple (maybe three) of PDP-8/E CPUs,
and while I intend to pickup one of them for my collection, it may make
the deal easier if I take more than one (perhaps all) of them.
So... anyone out there looking for a PDP-8/E to call their own?
At the moment, I'm trying to gauge interest. Prices have not been
finalized yet, and they are on the East Coast, so shipping will be a
consideration as well.
If you are interested, please drop me a note (please don't reply to the
list) and indicate what one would be worth to you, and what options you
want (need) to have...
At present, it appears that all of the available units will have at least
16k of core, and EAE.
The units are reported to be in good condition, recently removed from
service. CPU chassis (box) only, (to save on shipping) none of the 6
foot 'corporate' racks... (unless someone *really* wants one)
-jim
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The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw
Computer Garage Fax - (503) 646-0174
I'm getting ready to kill the other account (dseagrav(a)tek-star.net).
If you want to mail me, please mail me here (dseagrav(a)toad.xkl.com).
The tek-star account will be active for a little longer, maybe a week.
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Thanks. I owe you one. Now.... if I could only get the ROM. (I don't
currenlty own one; but they're really cool. When I got my hands on one;
they were old and outdated, at a friends house. At the time, I had no
respects for classics.)
Bye,
Tim D. Hotze
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From: kroma <kroma(a)worldnet.att.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 5:21 PM
Subject: Apple //gs emulator
>
>
>
>>Does anyone know 'bout an emulator for a IIGS? (For x86)
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>There is XGS. Its available at http://www.jurai.org/~funaho/emulators/XGS/
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> -- Kirk
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>
At 10:48 PM 12/16/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Any tips to find out if this already does have or not:
>hardware upgrades, etc? Because I can not open it up on site and
>does not have anything, no boot disk, no power cord. Just that.
I don't know, I'm afraid. (I think, though, that it uses a standard IEC
line cord? Or is my memory gone?)
>All I do is letting you know if anyone is interested in this Osborne.
If I were lucky enough to be going to Canada any time soon, I buy it off
you, but I already have several, and can't really justify the shipping
costs. (Especially right now. 8^( )
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roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
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Having just received the donation of a Wang 2200 mini for the Windsor
Science Centre, (no documentation of course,) am wondering if anyone can
give me any information on it?
We also received a Kim-1, but lots of info on that.
Thanks
Charlie Fox
