Sorry, this is going out to a lot of people that it doesn't apply to, but
as was pointed out earlier today a lot of the people on this list seem to
be in the Portland area.
I know a guy that is currently trying to get rid of quite a few VT320's,
and probably a few others (sorry, no VT520's). He's not on the Internet,
but if you want I can put you in touch with him. As I said this is for the
Portland area.
Zane
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This guy has a working IDE interface for the Commodore-64/128. It will
accept up to an 8gb hard drive, and ATAPI CD-ROM support is in the works.
Price is $89US plus shipping. Access time is about 60 times faster than the
1541 floppy, about 25k/sec. It would be worth getting just to see it work!
Here's the address:
http://sgi.felk.cvut.cz/~vorlicek/Ide/c64ide.html
-John Higginbotham-
-limbo.netpath.net-
>> It's been a reasonable week for me, computerwise. Other than being
>> offered a mainframe, which was fu
>
>What kind? And what is "fu" (except what I think it is)?
Sorry. Fu was meant to be fun. I was offered a digital camera (or
something similar) this week, which included a bonus VAX to run it. Out
of my league, though. There is another mainframe I was offered a couple
of weeks ago where they didn't know the brand, but I am thinking of going
around to see it and work out if I can save it anyway, at least until a
more appropriate owner comes along. The third, which I was refering to,
was an AWA 5280 (I believe that was the number). I figure it may well be
just a mini or something, but I know nothing about this and he did say
Mainframe. :)
Adam.
>At 11:26 PM 2/7/98 +0930, you wrote:
>
>>Someone here has a couple of 64 GS's - I had only heard of them in
>>passing before, and thus don't know their interest. I looked on the web
>
>Now I've heard of Apple II GS, but no C-64GS.
It's a seriously cut down Commodore, apparantly. Intended as a
cartridge-based games machine. From the little I know it had no keyboard
and special joysticks with two fire buttons, the second of which replaced
the space bar from the keyboard. But I think it could use standard C64
carts.
Adam/
Don't forget to try re-inking if you can't find one.
manney
> Does any one know what type of printer ribbon can fit onto an original
adam
> (Colecovision)printer (ginerec one I thought Was a deablo hytype but it
wont
> fit.
> And where to get one from I live in Castlegar, British Columbia Canada.
>
> Thanx for your help
>
> Chris
>
I have to comment on a few things that have recently been posted here.
One is the addition of 37 books to a vintage library. How many books
do you people have? One would need a bill gates-type house to store all
of these old computers and books! I live in an apartment, and envy
people
who can- I am trying to sort out a few tens of manuals!
Incidentally, I have finally gotten permission to take old stuff from
a supply room in my school. I picked up Ventura Publisher 1.0, DOS 3.3
(I had an un-shrinkwrapping ceremony for that), and the PC XT manuals.
And, there is lots more stuff. Harvard Graphics, printer manuals, that
System/34 I mention every few weeks... What was the first publishing
program anyway? Also, how many different home/small office computers
have
been made, do you suppose? Now, it's just Intel and Mac :(
Lastly, I wanted to know if there was any place where I could actually
sit down at an old machine and play with it for half an hour, just to
get
the feel for it. P.S. How big was the IBM 370?
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Alright, this may be a REALLY stupid idea, but it sounds like fun.
First, how many people on the list are in Portland, OR? Sure seems like
there are a lot.
Second, who in PDX would be interested in seeing a new classic computers
users group? Not a dozen groups of C64 and TI-99 fans, but a UG for ALL of
the old computers, wether it be an old mainframe/minicomputer or a funny
looking micro. Well? What do you think? Would it be worth it?
That's all for now, from my strange mind... But be careful, I might pounce
at any time! :->
-JR http://members.tripod.com/~jrollins/index.html - Computers
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