test-drb March 1998

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by MPritchard＠EnsembleStudios.com

I had a working CMB 8032, and one day a couple years ago, saw an ad in the paper "Wanted: CBM 8032". A couple in their 70's placed it. The wife is a writer, and not a computer user, and only knew how to use her CBM 8032 which was 15 years old and failing. I brought my 8032 (which I had set up in my office, after it fell from a high shelf and put a dent in the hood of my car) to them, swapped it out, swapped roms (mine had some sort of add-on board) and tore-down, cleaned, and re-assemble the keyboard for them. and off they went. I think they did have all the manuals and stuff for the computer, disk drives, and printers. alas, I don't have any PET computers anymore. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ethan Dicks [SMTP:erd@infinet.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 1998 3:28 PM > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers > Subject: Re: Vacation Finds... > > > > > Have been on vacation since Friday and still have a couple days to > > go... From the thrift store outlook in the area things are > improving > > again (I guess people are starting their pre-spring cleaning) > > > > What I passed up on... > > PET 8032, 4040 dual drive. > > Agggggh! I'd *love* to replace my long-lost 8032. It was one of the > item > burgled from my house a while back, along with an Amiga 500 and a rare > A500 > to 8-bit ISA adapter from Canada called "The Wedge". I _really_ wish > I > had that... it was built for a WX-1 MFM controller (or a DTC 5160 RLL > controller), but would work perfectly for an 8-bit Ethernet card. > > Anyway, rambling aside, where are you on vacation and is the PET still > there? > > -ethan > > ObBIO: 31, Male, collect 1802/6502/68000/PDP-8/PDP-11/VAX/SPARC. > Started > with the PET and Elf in 1977. Have spare Apple ][, C-64, Amiga and > SunSPARC > parts/systems for trade. My rarest find is probably my tiny > collection of > 4004 CPUs and support chips. >

26 years, 10 months

Calc wars, other calc stuff, my own previous post (uVAX/GPX)

by cchi＠lle.rochester.edu

Hello all... me again. I apologize for writing twice in one day, but I've requested "Digest mode" and am finding several topics I can respond to. I should've waited before sending the previous message, but will now be aware of this and will cover ALL current topics of my interest in this ONE note, to save you all the pain of seeing SEVERAL messages from me. (If you'd RATHER have several separate messages, someone just say so...) 1) Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> quotes a message quoted by someone else, in which the original author says that "... it's the HP25 that I still prefer..." Original author, whoever you are, I wanted to let you know that I have a set of original manuals and -- if I can still FIND it -- the AC adapter, left over when my own HP25 was stolen from me one day in high school -- circa 1978... If you're interested in these items, e-mail me. 2) At a Hamfest last spring I acquired a TI calculator -- I forget the model number right off; I wasn't expecting to talk about this today, but it's the programmable one that reads-and-writes those magnetic cards -- along with programming manual(s) and the external PRINTER, not to mention a fistful of the magcards. The only trouble is, instructions stored in program memory randomly get altered, i.e. the memory is no longer reli- able (hmm, just like ME!). Is it "just old," and there nothing that can be done? Or can it be repaired? Much obliged, for any info anyone can provide. 3) At that same Hamfest last spring, some guy found out I was "into" calcu- lators, HP in particular (notwithstanding that TI-whatever I'd just bought), and talked my ear off about some "latest and greatest" HP calculator that "did it all," allowing you to mix "ordinary" calculator statements, BASIC, and C syntax "all on one program line," among many other things. I have forgotten the model number, so if anyone recognizes this description and can TELL me the model number, and of course where to find out more about the thing, I'd really appreciate it. 4) My HP-33C battery doesn't hold a charge anymore; please advise. Joe Rig- don...? 5) Re: that uVAX stuff I mentioned in my PREVIOUS message: I'd be MOST inter- ested in anyone who could trade "my" stuff in London, for "his" set of the "same" stuff in the US! I can provide a more detailed itemization of what I have. Chris Chiesa

26 years, 10 months

CLASSICCMP partial digest 346

by cchi＠lle.rochester.edu

Hi. I'm new. But enough chatter. I see Bruce Lane <kyrrin(a)jps.net> is interested in uVAX II GPX video boards... That brings to mind the set of VCB02 boards-cables-and-keyboards which I've got "stranded" in London after a failed attempt to get them to Rochester, NY, from mid-Scotland "on the cheap." I'd love to hear from anybody who a) can get them from London to Rochester (or even just to the USA) cheap or free, or b) is IN or NEAR London and has an interest in them and something to trade which is already IN the USA... I know this is a long shot, but hey, I had to make a grand, if weird, entrance... Chris Chiesa cchi(a)lle.rochester.edu

26 years, 10 months

Found a Apple IIGS UPgrade

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 98-03-06 02:26:00 EST, you write: << In a message dated 3/6/98 1:00:49 AM Central Standard Time, dastar(a)wco.com writes: << I believe there was an upgrade kit that came out a short while after the //gs was introduced that allowed one to upgrade their //e to a //gs. >> >> yes, and the upgrade cost $500. i have a magazine article about it. david

26 years, 10 months

8080A disassemblers (MSDOS based)

by adavie＠mad.scientist.com

>> Well I don't know of a dos based 8080 disassembler but... There are >> several dos based programs that can emulate a 8080/z80 and run a any of >> the existing 8080 disassemblers. I have found several 8080A disassemblers. They are relatively easy to find using search engines such as AltaVista - but I will be happy to forward URLs to anyone who has trouble. THere are several sites with loads of disassemblers and assemblers for all platforms. Cheers A

26 years, 10 months

Mac 512k complete set FS/Trade

by rhblake＠bbtel.com

In addition to the previous Apple/mac items message, I also have the following fine machine for sale or trade: --MAC 512k system which includes cpu/monitor unit with original 400k internal floppy, enhanced keyboard, mouse, printer, manuals, software and applicable cables. The unit was owned by a friend of mine since new and only needs a repair or replace of the floppy drive as it's getting old and sometimes doesn't read the disk, does other times. Great condition otherwise. Entire set $75.00 plus shipping or will consider trades (as mentioned in previous) or other PC compatible parts. I'll also include text on upgrading RAM to 1mb using common DRAMs piggybacked. Contact me if interested by direct reply... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Russ Blakeman RB Custom Services / Rt. 1 Box 62E / Harned, KY USA 40144 Phone: (502) 756-1749 / Data/Fax:(502) 756-6991 Email: rhblake(a)bbtel.com or rhblake(a)bigfoot.com Website: http://members.tripod.com/~RHBLAKE/ * Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers* --------------------------------------------------------------------

26 years, 10 months

Apple Items FS

by rhblake＠bbtel.com

To update everyone, the Vector 3 has a new home and is on it's way there. I have the following Apple components for sale but will trade as well. You have to pay shipping though either way. * Apple ImageWriter II color dot matrix printer with good color ribbon and mini-din to 25 pin sub-d male adapter cable. The printer itself has a female mini-din connector. $40.00 plus shipping * Apple 5.25" external floppy drive set. Two drives that chain together, marked Drive 1 and Drive 2. Excellent condition. $25.00 plus shipping * SIMMS - 30 pin 1 mb non parity for Apple and Macs that utilize 30 pin SIMMs, not SIPPs or DRAMs. I have 8 of these. Seimens type with 5 large chips and two small chips. $8.00 for the set or even swap for 8 PC compatible 1mb 30 pin type. Items I might trade for: -CDROM drives, internal or external. IDE, SCSI or proprietary. Proprietary drives MUST include applicable adapter card. All should have any available manuals and software if possible. -Sound cards. MCA, ISA, VLB, etc. 8 bit or 16. Again, it would be best to have any available software or manuals if possible. -SIMM memory - 30 or 72 pin parity or non-parity, but MUST be useful in PC's and compatibles. I have no use for the Apple/mac types (hence the sale of the above). -486 motherboards, with processor. EMAIL directly to me for more info... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Russ Blakeman RB Custom Services / Rt. 1 Box 62E / Harned, KY USA 40144 Phone: (502) 756-1749 / Data/Fax:(502) 756-6991 Email: rhblake(a)bbtel.com or rhblake(a)bigfoot.com Website: http://members.tripod.com/~RHBLAKE/ * Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers* --------------------------------------------------------------------

26 years, 10 months

I'm back! Now, who...?

by kyrrin＠jps.net

OK, I'm back from JPS Internet. Neat service! Now... based on the latest digest I got, it appears that someone (I'm not clear just who it is) has some MicroVAX II GPX video boards, cable, and mouse available for trade. Please get in touch with me if these are still available. The cable alone is worth the effort for me to obtain. Thanks! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Sysop, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fidonet 1:343/272) (Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin(a)jps.net) "Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."

26 years, 10 months

Sorcerer

by dcoward＠pressstart.com

Sam Ismail said: >It seems that a lot of you blokes down under have Sorcerers. Were they >marketed a lot more "down there" than they were in the US? They are not >very common over here. I remember the first time I saw a Sorcerer. It was August or September 1979. I was just out of the Navy, working at TODD shipyards in Seattle. I was downtown and there in the front window of a computer store was a Sorcerer run a hi-res demo of liquid flowing out of a bottle. Very impressive, I wanted one. But I couldn't afford the $700-$800 I seem to remember it costing (Divorce). Well, today I have three. Two of them have their own cardboard briefcases. But I sure would like to find a copy of that demo. ========================================= Doug Coward dcoward(a)pressstart.com Senior Software Engineer Press Start Inc. Sunnyvale,CA Curator Museum of Personal Computing Machinery http://www.best.com/~dcoward/museum =========================================

26 years, 10 months

Info needed on Microbee, System 80, Pencil II, TI 99/4

by scott＠isd.canberra.edu.au

I need some information on some old micros I have in my collection. They are all Australian models apart from the TI, although some of them made it overseas. Pencil II --------- The sticker on the base says this machine was made by Soundic Electronics, although I believe it may have been distributed by Hanimex. I need information on the power supply. I have been told it's 9.9V DC 1A and 17.7V DC 500mA, but I need the pinouts for the 3-pin DIN socket the supply is meant to connect to. Microbee -------- I believe the DIN socket at the rear right-hand corner is a combined power supply, cassette in/out and composite video out socket. Can anyone tell me the pinouts? System 80 --------- Originally this had an RF modulator, but the one I have has been very heavily hacked. Can someone give me the pinouts for the video DIN socket? TI 99/4 ------- Note that this is the 99/4, *not* the 99/4a. Can someone tell me the power supply requirements and pinouts? It is *not* the same as the 99/4a. I *think* it may need +5, -5 and +12, but I'm not sure. Thanks in advance, | Scott McLauchlan |"Sometimes the need to mess with their heads | | Client Services Division | outweighs the millstone of humiliation." | | University of Canberra |___________Fox_Mulder_"The_X-Files:_Squeeze"_| | scott(a)cts.canberra.edu.au | http://www.canberra.edu.au/~scott/home.html |

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