hello have been trying to find out about this piece of hardware for some
time and eventually tracked this site
i have in my posssession a virtually new ft60 and have some of the software
but no board --- as an ex service engineer that is now blind I cant bear to
throw it away someone talk to me and its theirs for the postage
david yerbury
I have two core memory boards that I took out of an 11/34 back around 1982 or so, worked when took them out, don't have driver board, lost that. Will trade for coco-3 or IDE drive (working) around 540mb or so. (haha)
Paul T. Barton
paulb(a)nuvision3d.com
Doug Spence <ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
>> I'll bet a doughnut there are at least two Sidecar sites on the net,
>> given the known rabidity of Amiga enthusiasts.
>
>Very possible, though I've so far not found them. There seems to be some
>product for the named "SideCar" though, because Alta Vista keeps coughing
>up links to articles on it.
Hmm. Guess that means I might owe you a doughnut. Did you try posting
questions to the Amigoid newsgroups? I'll check my basement archives, too.
>I wish I had ordered something from IAM when they had their "boing logo"
>promotion, but I had recently purchased DiskSalv at a computer show, and
>already had the "Deathbed Vigil" video and T-shirt, and I wasn't
>interested in any of their other products at the time. It would've been
>nice to get the logos, though. (They were scoured from the garages of
>various ex-Commodore engineers.)
I attended the first "Amiga wake" party when Amiga Corp. closed in
Los Gatos. They had one of those "black box" wirewrap Amigas there.
I will continue to deny that I had anything to do with
the rescue of the Amiga sign from the lawn of the old office. :-)
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
Holy Cow... I guess the repair price this fellow got quoted was truly
astronomical!
Anyway... if you've got a VAXen of the type he's looking for, and you
want to get a good price for it and have it go to a good home to boot (pun
intended, of course), get in touch with the original author of the message
attached here...
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From: michaXrostock(a)t-online.de (Dr. Michael Storck)
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Hi from Rostock, Germany
My old DecStation 5000 / 200 got hardware -problems.
Having it repaired is rather expensive with digital in germany.
As I still have data on two rz 55 / rz 56 disks I am looking for a
DecStation 5000 / 240 or 5000 / 260 system 2ndhand,
with a sytem 2 user license of ultrix 4.3 or 4.4
I would need only the system box (with hard disk built in ) as my
Dec (well rather Sony) 19" monitor is still well and alive ...
Shipping from US / CAN via UPS or DHL ...
Willing to pay about $ 500 (depending on type of sys and size of hard
disk)
Mike Storck
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"...No matter how hard we may wish otherwise, our science can only describe
an object, event, or living creature, in our own human terms. It cannot possibly
define any of them!..."
I recently got a "Baby Blue CPU Plus" card by Microlog Inc. It's a CP/M
Card for PC's, and has a 4.77mhz Z80B with 64K RAM (available to DOS too).
Also "accepts several popular CP/M 5.25-in soft-sectored disk formats".
It's a full-length 8-bit ISA card, and has no docs or software, but the
original box has the installation info (including limited dip-switch
settings) printed on the back.
Anyway, anyone have a manual or software I could get a copy of? Thanks in
advance!
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On Mar 22, 7:16, Doug Spence wrote:
> Subject: Re: Kaypro: 81-149C vs. 81-232
>
> Well, I've repeated what I did the other night. I plugged the Kaypro II
> into the Kaypro 2's drives, and vice versa. Just the ribbon cable, not
> the power. Whichever machine was plugged into the Kaypro II's drives was
> able to boot, the machine plugged into the 2's drives just sits there with
> the bootup message and eventually beeps and says "I cannot read your disk"
> (or similar).
I don't know much about Kaypros, but is it possible that one of the sets of
drives is 40-track and the other is 80-track? Or that one set is single-sided
and the other is double-sided? When you start up the machine and it tries to
boot, does a light come on, on the disk drive (which would indicate that the
drive is being accessed)?
> Anyway, the only other thing I could try is to make drive B in the 2 think
> that it's drive A, to see if I can boot from there. Does anyone know how
> these drives decide which one's A and which one is B? And can I switch
> their identities without removing the drives from the metal housing? I
> don't have the proper screwdriver to remove the drives.
Usually there's a set of jumpers, or sometimes a small DIL switch pack, which
select one of four disk addresses. They may be labelled DS0, DS1, DS2, DS3 or
perhaps D1, D2, D3, D4. D0=A and D1=B. You just need to switch the jumper
settings. Even if they're not labeled, you should find that all but one of the
jumpers (the drive select jumper) in one drive match the jumpers in the other
drive (of the ame pair).
If you open up the drive case and tell us what the make and model number of the
actual drive mechanism is, someone can probably tell you the jumper settings
and whether the drive is 40/80 or SS/DS.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
I had these posted in late February and had to "cold shoulder" a few
people since there were some people that said they definitely wanted
them. Those same people have not contacted me in some time and I'm
posting these again as I need to get them out of my way soon or they
will get new homes in the landfill....
Have three older terminals, condition unknown but in good physical
shape.
Digital VT100, no keyboard
Digital VT220, no keyboard
Visual 102 with keyboard
I'm going to ask $5 for each plus shipping to more or less cover the
time involved in packing and running these to the shipper, but otherwise
they're here and awaiting some interested foster home to contact me
about them. Neither weighs a lot but due to the glass crt they aren't
featherwight either.
I also have for $10 each plus shipping three Hewlett Packard 700/44
terminals in great physical and electrical shape. They emulate quite a
few different things and come with like new keyboards as well and have
both a current loop and a 25 pin serial connection in the back.
If the people that said they wanted them are still reading the posts in
this area and still want them they need to contact me immediately. I'm
sure the Digitals are wanted irregardless of condition for parts or
collectability. The HP's are great dumb terminals for those of you
running minis and mainframes that otherwise have no human interface and
possibly even for automated data aquisition and test racks.
If I don't get a firm response by the middle of April (say tax deadline)
they go away for good. It's too much of a problem to have them in much
needed space here to mess with them. Those interested should let me know
what they want and their zip code to calculate shipping, either by UPS
or USPS. I can only take a money order or cashier's check for the amount
due and shipping, in advance of shipping.
COntact me directly. I'm in the process of finishing my new shop and
these are a definite nuisance to have to walk around since I personally
have no use for them
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RB Custom Services / Rt. 1 Box 62E / Harned, KY USA 40144
Phone: (502) 756-1749 Data/Fax:(502) 756-6991
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* Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers*
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Here us a URL that can provide you with MANY pinouts:
The Hardware Book:
http://www.blackdown.org/~hwb/hwb.html
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Got this off the Web site this morning, it's an interesting question. Reply
to poster with a copy, please.
>name=guy brutel
>addr=brutel(a)wxs.nl
>I am looking for a program that reads /writes on a
DOS-PC the 5 1/4 diskettes of my old Osborne 1.
Where to find such conversion programmes? Program sources that could be
adapted?
>Thanks!
TIA,
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Kip Crosby engine(a)chac.org
http://www.chac.org/index.html
Computer History Association of California
