test-drb December 1998

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by pctech＠davidbowie.com

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.

25 years, 7 months

disk drive database

by roblwill＠usaor.net

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 >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- >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] > >

25 years, 7 months

disk drive database

by roblwill＠usaor.net

> >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>

25 years, 7 months

ebay - Minivac 601, 1st pers. digital computer 1960s

by altair8800＠hotmail.com

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 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

25 years, 7 months

Apple 2 GS cartridge drive (was: re: dec 3100 100mb scsi)

by roblwill＠usaor.net

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? >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >

25 years, 7 months

SOL feeding frenzy?

by kurtkilg＠geocities.com

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 > ---------------------------------------------------- Max Eskin | kurtkilgor(a)bigfoot.com | AOL: kurtkilgor

25 years, 7 months

dec 3100 100mb scsi

by jim＠calico.litterbox.com

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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

25 years, 7 months

Digital Group system

by eric＠brouhaha.com

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

25 years, 7 months

the Canonical List of Commodore Products

by dcoward＠pressstart.com

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 =========================================

25 years, 7 months

Filetypes (was Re: Xerox)

by jfoust＠threedee.com

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

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test-drb December 1998