test-drb December 1997

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by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Slow begining but a few finds Friday and Saturday. My biggest find was a Wang laptop with carrying case (black), 14.5 lbs, 512k ram, NICAD battery (dead), 10mb HD, full size keyboard, full size supertwist LCD screen, RS-232 port, SCSI port for external floppy drives, MS-DOS 3.2 and DOS reloaded, builtin modem, uses NEC V30 CPU, 8 Mhz clock rate. It's missing the ext drives 3.5 and 5 1/4 and 18V power supply. This unit has a builtin printer also. Other finds - Socrates infra-red keyboard do not have a base unit here to test it with; 2 Mac Plus keyboards; Apple Personal LaserWriter NT $5 not tested yet; Hitachi external CD-ROM drive (free) not tested yet; Laser128 with power brick not tested yet; a Amiga 500 with mouse, ext 3.5 FD, and power brick not tested yet cost was .80 cents for all of it; HP Thinkjet model 2225C not tested yet; a Zenith luggable model ZFA-138-42 not tested yet $5; about 30 different manuals for many different products like Kennedy model 1600 tape unit;VTech video painter; and last a Apple personal modem model A9M0334. Well that's it for the week, will take a day off Sunday. Still trying to setup the warehouse deal for BIG load of systems. - John Keep computing !!

26 years, 7 months

GRiDCASE 3 info

by higginbo＠netpath.net

Hello. First post to this list: I am looking for any and all info for the GRiD GRiDCASE 3 laptop. I know all the specs, but I need info for the GRiD-OS and any software and it's availability for the GRiD-OS. As it stands now, I have MS-DOS 2.11 ROM installed, GRiD-OS ROM internal daughter card with various apps installed, and an optional ROM that includes a VT100 terminal. I would really like to find out how to format a disk under GRiD-OS, and any other system commands I can use besides the built-in menu. I have no external (floppy) software for the GRiD-OS, but if anyone has it, I'd pay for copies. Also, if anyone is looking for specs and info for GRiD laptops, please checkout this page I am slowly putting together: http://limbo.netpath.net/hw/GRiD - John Higginbotham - limbo.netpath.net

26 years, 7 months

Portable Collection

by Zeus334＠aol.com

--Original So anyway, I sorta feel like I could not add another machine and still have a collection of portables that covers the important ones, plus a bunch that were kinda weird or personally significant. --- Well, an interesting one was the Apricot portable, which I have no experience with. I heard it had voice command, and ran off an 8088.

26 years, 7 months

Seeking classics for collection

by agammuto＠cybersoft.com

Greetings- I'm new to this list. Anybody willing to sell or know a source for: IMSAI 8080, OSI Challenger, or KIM?

26 years, 7 months

Hot Dog! I got my 11/34 today!

by rcini＠email.msn.com

Today, my father and I drove to Philadelphia to pick-up an 11/34 system. It has been used by the Univ. of Pennsylvania psychology department since its original installation date. It was only decommissioned two months ago because its "user" retired. I haven't taken a complete inventory yet, but here's the haul: 11/34 processor, expansion box and two RK05s in a 6' rack (It's even configured as shown on the cover of the 11/34 hardware book), engineering diagrams, manuals, programming books, 4 disk packs, replacement drive heads, air filters, one spare RK05, and loads of spare boards. I'll start inventorying this week. Also, I have to tear the rack down in order to move it to the basement (it's in my garage now). At 450 lbs., it was too heavy to move downstairs. I'll probably remove the RK05s to move it. Then, I have to drop a 120v/30a line into the shop. More to come... Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini(a)msn.com> (remove nospam_ to use) ClubWin! Charter Member (6) MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking ============================================

26 years, 7 months

???

by higginbo＠netpath.net

Is this a list? Hoping this won't show up to a bunch of subscribers... Want to see if I can join the list, and all I have is this obscure e-mail address reference... Didn't mean to piss anyone off if I did by posting this message through the "wrong" channels... Prease Excuse. - John Higginbotham - limbo.netpath.net

26 years, 7 months

Advice wanted for cleaning edge connectors, IC sockets, etc.

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<"tuner wash" would be bad for the connectors, PC board, plastic IC <sockets, silk screening, solder mask, etc. I considered rubbing <alcohol, but I don't know what the effect of that would be either. I <checked the FAQs that I know of, and about all I came up with was <someone's technique of "giving the circuit board a good scrubbing" <with dish soap and swinging it on the end of a string to dry it. As <this technique strikes me as possibly dangerous, to myself, the Remove the front panel circuit board. Insure any dress items like the front pannel overlay are not on it and put it in the dish washer with the usual cleaner (any dishes too). This will do a very good job and is not caustic. It dry it well, if it come out with water in the switches don't panic. Put it in an oven set real low (you want 140 degrees) and bake it dry. Lubricate the switches with a contact leaner that has some low residue lubricant in it. Drying is a no rush thing. FYI soap with plenty of clean water rinse is the least damaging thing you can use. I've done this many, many times (whole production runs!) using this approach. Any switches once dries that are failed/flaky can be replaced easily as they are common parts. Allison

26 years, 7 months

Portable Collection

by sinasohn＠ricochet.net

At 02:36 PM 12/5/97 -0800, you wrote: >Hmm. Just thinking about portables in my own collection.... > >Convergent Workslate Yep, definitely very cool. Gotta add it to my wish list. (Hey, christmas is coming! 8^) >Gavilan I know the name, but little else. I'd love to hear more when you get through all the docs & such. >HP 110 (Portable) >HP Portable Plus Y'know, I donated a couple of these to CHAC back when I thought I could get away without actually collecting computers myself... But I'm an HP lover too, so these go on the wish list... (P.S., do you know about the 918DX offer?) >HP Integral PC > - Unix in ROM Oh yeah. Saw yours at the VCF. <drool, drool, lust, lust> I *definitely* want one of these. >Osborne 3 > - Somebody please tell me I don't have the *only* one in the world! >Osborne 4 (Vixen) > - Hey, if you're interested in collecting the whole set.... I wouldn't mind having the whole set at all. 8^) Thanks! --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/

26 years, 7 months

Spoiled by geezers

by sinasohn＠ricochet.net

At 04:36 PM 12/5/97 EST, you wrote: >What exactly is a PX-8? BTW, I have a Mac Portable, which I got because it The PX-8 is a small laptop, kinda similar to the HX-20 or the m100/NEC/m10 crowd, but more in the same class as the NEC Starlet. It's a CP/M machine with an 8(?) line flip-up display and built-in micro-cassette drive. >wasn't working. After connecting the battery directly to the AC power for a >few seconds, it worked. The battery is dead now, though. I use another AC The Mac Portable is an odd critter. It seems it runs off the battery, and the power supply is only there to charge the battery. I'm learning a lot about them right now, in fact. My current idea is to make a doohickey that will feed power in from an external power source to the battery contacts so you don't need the regular power supply at all. Basically, if you don't have a working battery (or something to fool the mac portable into thinking you do) then it won't work. The battery is a 6v lead-acid battery. >adapter for the battery, as well as the normal one. That thing eats power! Why >your battery is alive and mine died, god only knows. The PX-8 runs (iirc -- I only got mine on Wednesday and spent yesterday at a funeral so I haven't played with it much) on AA batteries. It has no floppy or hard drive, and the small LCD screen probably doesn't use much juice. Hence, all you need power for is the RAM and CPU/electronics. --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/

26 years, 7 months

Panasonic HHC

by ddales＠cts.com

I have an HHC in perfect working order and was just wondering what it might be worth to a collector. Just curious, Dave Dales Ddales(a)cts.com San Diego, CA

26 years, 7 months

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