I have alot of spare parts around the office and i would like to trade for a Commodore 64 or TRS 80 or other old computers i have some old FP 72pin memory simms 4megs and a bunch of 486 and pentium boards and processors.
if interested e-mail me.
It may possibly be that the server that you're connecting to (ISP) is having
some problems.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)ncal.verio.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, December 17, 1998 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: disk drive database
>On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Jason Willgruber wrote:
>
>> I think a few words will sum up the whole situation: U/B error
(User/Browser
>> error).
>
>That's a silly assumption, young Jason. I still can't access the site
>from ANY browser. I think it depends on where you're coming from, or how
>you are getting there. I still haven't heard back from the webmaster
>regarding my query.
>
>Sellam Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>Always being hassled by the man.
>
> Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0
> See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
> [Last web site update: 12/07/98]
>
>
>
>I just went in with no problems. Is it possible a filter has been
installed
>to reject your site(s)?
>
What browser were you using? I was using IE. It's possible that there's
something messed up that makes it not work with Netscape.
--
-Jason Willgruber
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
ICQ#: 1730318
<http://members.tripod.com/general_1>
From: Doug Yowza <yowza(a)yowza.com>
Wait a minute. Who's high bidder right now? Why it's Dealer Bob. Hi,
Bob. I thought you were only into Altairs :-)
Doug
When I was in high school a friend and I saw one of these.
He was so inspired by this thing's ability to
play tic, tac, toe that he built a similar
device from my pinball machine parts and entered
it into the local Science Fair.
The Minivac is interesting to me because (being an old
man) my tinkering began with electro-mechanical technology.
I could look at this stuff and "see" how it works.
I found it very difficult to make the transition to
solid state and digital technology. After so many years
of relays and blade switches, I just could not "see" what
was happening inside those IC packages. For that reason
I walked away from it. I now wish I had approached it differently.
As for my "Dealer Bob" status, afraid I still have most
of the Altairs. I have only sold duplicate items and
not even all of the duplicates. Still have both of my
Attaches. Have become way too attached to the stuff.
Bob Wood
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The Apple 2 GS could have a hard drive in it? I never knew that. My school
used to have about 10 of them, and they all ran off of quad-floppy drives,
and some sort of cartridge drive that was used to transfer files to a PC
(You would just pull the cartridge from the Apple, bit it in the drive
connected to the IBM, and run whatever you wanted. I can't remember much
about it (about 6 yrs ago). Does anyone have any info on a drive like this?
It was a black drive that was about the size of a Disk ][, had about a 3/4"
cable running to the back of the computer, and a grounded power cord. The
drive itself weighed about 5-10 lbs, and the cartridge weighed about 2 lbs
(it was metal).
--
-Jason Willgruber
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
ICQ#: 1730318
<http://members.tripod.com/general_1>
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Strickland <jim(a)calico.litterbox.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, December 17, 1998 1:20 PM
Subject: dec 3100 100mb scsi
>Hey gang. Thought you would want to know that Alltronics has 5 dec 3100
>100mb 3.5 inch half height drives for sale for 24.95 each. They had 7, but
>I just bought 2. One for a Mac SE30, one which will wind up either in the
>vaxstation Tim Shoppa is putting together for me, or in my Apple 2 GS,
which
>in turn will donate its disk to the aforementioned vax. (the GS's disk is
>230 megs. Far more than is really useful for it.)
>--
>Jim Strickland
>jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Vote Meadocrat! Bill and Opus in 2000 - Who ELSE is there?
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 jfoust(a)threedee.com wrote:
> What do you think you can wipe out, and how?
I simply thought of a sentence that could be used as the marker for the
start of something. I might as well have used Kennedy's statement about
sending a man to the moon.
> Hobby? Who said it was a hobby? There are obviously some people
> on this list who have made it their life's work.
Quick show of hands here; how many of the people who have done this are
running a for-profit organization? Mind you, there's nothing wrong with
doing that; it's just that as the original poster said, it is no longer
possible to assume that the purpose of these collections is academic. All
of them are, AFAIK, but in a decade, I'm sure we can expect to see XTs
with documentation sealed in clear polished plastic (tony cringes). They
will be repainted to the original color (or, better yet, the limited
edition blue and gold colors) and sold for thousands.
> - John
>
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Max Eskin | kurtkilgor(a)bigfoot.com | AOL: kurtkilgor
Hey gang. Thought you would want to know that Alltronics has 5 dec 3100
100mb 3.5 inch half height drives for sale for 24.95 each. They had 7, but
I just bought 2. One for a Mac SE30, one which will wind up either in the
vaxstation Tim Shoppa is putting together for me, or in my Apple 2 GS, which
in turn will donate its disk to the aforementioned vax. (the GS's disk is
230 megs. Far more than is really useful for it.)
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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Vote Meadocrat! Bill and Opus in 2000 - Who ELSE is there?
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My Digital Group system has arrived. I haven't had a chance to do anything
with it yet, but it looks nice and was very well packaged. As expected, I
received no documentation or software. Sam has offered to let me use the
documentation and software he will be getting with his system, and that
will be very helpful.
However, my system has the Phideck digital cassette drives rather than
disk drives, so I need to get either:
PHIMON or other software that uses the Phidecks
or
a Digital Group disk controller
Of course, any other Digital Group (or Peripheral Vision) goodies that
might be available for sale or trade would interest me as well.
I've updated my Digital Group web page a bit more; I've started scanning
their early advertisments. One of my friends in Colorado has a fairly
complete set of their catalogs, so I should be able to get them on line
as well.
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/the_digital_group/
Cheers,
Eric
Jim Brain said:
>Calculator Series:
>* 202 electric, 1 digit display with slider indiciator,
> black case, white keypad, black,white,red keys SN B-63768
WW
>* 208 mechanical tape calc with red/black ribbon.
MI
>* Blue LEDs, basic math, cream color, blue/red butons.
TA
>* Scientific calc, made in England, 44 extra keys
BD
>* 401 paper readout, darkgreen/bluegreen
DV
There are a few calculators that I didn't see on your list:
301
X-24
SR-6120R
F4146R
C112
US*5M
US*10
see http://www.best.com/~dcoward/museum/mccommod.htm
And maybe you can help me with information on a PET 2001
I have. It has the chicklet keyboard and built-in cassette
deck, but in a redesigned case and a Friden name plate on
the bottom (Yes, I know they were out of business by 1977).
What do you know about re-badged PETs?
=========================================
Doug Coward
Press Start Inc.
Sunnyvale,CA
=========================================
At 10:19 AM 12/17/98 -0800, Sam Ismail wrote:
>On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, John Foust wrote:
>
>> Amiga trivia time: I and a friend liberated the Amiga Corp. sign from
>> the lawn, too. It lived in his garage in San Jose for a while, then
>> moved to Topeka, and then back to Sacramento.
>
>Oooh, cool! Any chance of this being exhibited at VCF 3.0?
Offhand, I'd guess it's at <http://www.play.com/about/museum.html> today.
- John
