> I bought a TI-99/4A for $2, in its original box. As far as I can tell,
> it's a complete system, but there's no software. All of you have one
> of these machines, right? :)
If I remember it didn't come with software other than the embedded basic.
Allison
Tomorrow I will be at the MIT flea market. I have to thin my excesses.
Of interest will be:
memory and some other parts in tubes with old (pre81) date codes. Stuff
like TMS4060, upd411, upd410, 2012...
Motorola 6800D1 board, with docs and extras.
Some s100 boards SEALS, IMS and PT 8k 2102 memory and others. Some Altair
memory S4k and 88-4MCD, altair front pannel logic and 8080 cpu. Many with
docs available. DUAL inc, 68k s100 cpu. compupro s100 motherboard.
S100 box, industrial strength.
Some extra CPM docs and misc books.
Intel MDS800 nearly complete, no disks. I have a non intel multibus disk
controller for it.
Silver reed LQP, complete with docs, daisy wheels, ribbons. Working.
Anadex printer working, with docs. Both serial and parallel.
2 cocos condition unknown.
MISC qbus PDP11 modules including some core planes(operational!). A couple
of BDV11va. Wire wrap modules. H962 diode rom boot board with docs.
Assortment of power supplies. Very complete TRS80 DOCS, CPU, EI, tapes
extras. Including some z80 and trs-80 books.
Floppy drives, St506 drives, external single floppy boxes (al la TRS80).
Fans for use in s100 or other boxes.
Allison
I decided to go to garage sales this morning.
I passed up an IBM 5150 with some sort of monitor for $15 or offer. It
had a single 5.25" drive. I suspect it had been picked over for parts,
since there was another PC there for sale, and the seller said that he
"wanted to upgrade the other PC's memory with chips from this one." I
didn't really want the machine, and I didn't figure it would be worth
shipping.
I bought a TI-99/4A for $2, in its original box. As far as I can tell,
it's a complete system, but there's no software. All of you have one
of these machines, right? :)
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>I had a good weekend. This is what I got:
[snip]
>All for $50. It was at our local Science center, so I decided to be
>generous with my offers. They keep all procedes. Any offers for
>trades/for sale welcome. Any pointers to info on the softcard?
Ain't kidding you had a good weekend!
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At 10:29 AM 6/13/97 -0700, you wrote:
>On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Ward Griffiths and/or Lisa Rogers wrote:
>
>> Wish I had my old MX-80 with the bootleg Graftrax ROM.
>
>I'm just curious, but what's special about the MX-80?
Well... to my mind the thing that made the MX-80 somewhat revolutionary for
its time was the user replacable print head that initially retailed for
about $35.00. Compared against other printers of the time which required a
trip to the shop and an average of $200.00 in repairs for a filed head, I
think it deserves its place of recognition.
-jim
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I frequent two thrift stores in the same town on a regular basis and the
prices, while higher than what you folks on the west cost are used to, were
reasonable. However three weeks ago they started getting in a lot of PC
equipment and the prices on it were ridiculous i.e $70 for a Packard Bell XT
clone with a monochrome monitor and $50 for an IBM 5150 PC with monitor.
While I was amused I wasn't really concerned since I have little interest in
this type of gear.
Now however the madness has infected the old 8 bit equipment. Some examples.
Apple IIc with monitor, 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" external drives $75. Not too bad
you say. Well then how about a C-64 with a 1571 disk drive and power supplies
for $80? The killer was a Coco 1 with manuals for $99 dollars.
Three weeks ago the C-64 and the Coco would have been $12 each and the 1571
about $15. I assume that they have someone new pricing this equipment but I
can't for the life of me figure out the rationale behind these prices.
Needless to say they're not moving much equipment.
Sorry for the rant but I just had to let it out. I did complain to the
cashier who said (sincerely I believe) that she would inform the manager .
Lou
I had a good weekend. This is what I got:
2 UNOPENED boxes of QuickFile II for Apple II
1 Pinpoint Software for Apple II
1 Set of manuals for IBM PC AT
2 Sets of manuals for WordPerfect (In box like PC AT manuals)
1 TI 59 Calculator with printer
1 Apple IIE computer
1 Microsoft Softcard
1 Super Serial II card
4 Disk II drives
2 Diks II interfaces
1 Numeric pad for IIe
1 Apple II Parallel card (By apple)
1 Amiga Monitor, the nice RGB/Composite monitor, Mono
1 Kodac Diconix 150+ printer for Mac
All for $50. It was at our local Science center, so I decided to be
generous with my offers. They keep all procedes. Any offers for
trades/for sale welcome. Any pointers to info on the softcard?
Josh M. Nutzman
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> I frequent two thrift stores in the same town on a regular basis and the
> prices, while higher than what you folks on the west cost are used to, were
> reasonable. However three weeks ago they started getting in a lot of PC
> equipment and the prices on it were ridiculous i.e $70 for a Packard Bell XT
> clone with a monochrome monitor and $50 for an IBM 5150 PC with monitor.
> While I was amused I wasn't really concerned since I have little interest in
> this type of gear.
Could be worse. The University of Utah Property Redistribution Center
seems to have a very odd idea of pricing. One day I went in and saw a
teletype marked $300. Walked out with an HP 9100B calculator for $10.
Somebody there seems to know _some_ things are collectable but has no
idea exactly _what_.
Last time I visited, though, it was all boring PC stuff...
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu
> repairs. I like mine because it has serial inputs - something that's
> getting increasingly hard to find on 99% of the printers in production.
the venerable LA120! It was the last of the printers that could punch 8part
carbon forms. The more common la100RO or LA210 serial and quite solid. I'm
still running a LA100RO I bought new in 84 wide platten and rugged with fair
near letter quality.
other serial printers from DEC:
LA34, LA36, LA38, LA12 corrospondent, LA50, LA75, LN01 with serial option
(that was a 12ppm xerox laser). To mention a few.
Allison
>
> Well... to my mind the thing that made the MX-80 somewhat revolutionary fo
> its time was the user replacable print head that initially retailed for
> about $35.00. Compared against other printers of the time which required
while significant there were other things of note.
It was low cost but not cheap.
It was widely sold.
Many other vendors copied it, it was a defacto standard in itself.
I represented a step up over many printers at twice the cost.
Later version were based on it.
Allison
