Seen on Usenet. If you can adopt these fine machines, contact the
original author directly. Thanks!
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From: "Erie Patsellis" <eriep(a)map.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: free to good home- 2 MVII (western mass)
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 08:37:25 -0500
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due to change in living situation, I have 2 MVII's available, just email
me
to pick them up.
erie
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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!..."
[doug on qx10]
:It sounds like a nice little CP/M box with bank-switched memory
:that can also run VALDOCS (whatever that is).
yes. shame about VALDOCS really. it seems to have killed forth's
reputation for all time. it was reputedly an integrated package written
in forth - unfortunately, it seems, the people who wrote it were less
than competent. for some reason it has an awful reputation, as slow,
buggy, etc.
never used or seen it - even in magazine reviews (not for the want of
trying either) - hence the vagueness. please, someone furnish further
details...? did epson ever release the source?
(hmm. other things written in forth were more successful - vp-planner
springs to mind, since it was so successful lotus killed it...)
-- Communa (together) we remember... we'll see you falling
you know soft spoken changes nothing to sing within her...
Net-Tamer V 1.08X - Test Drive
I've spotted one, owner has original boxes, packaging.
And the technical manuals - condition excellent.
Is this a computer worth salvaging? I'd likely have to pay around US$65
He also has a AT&T 3B1 in great shape, but doesn't know what its worth.
Any comments on these two appreciated.
Cheers
A
How much?
>
>Check out http://home1.gte.net/okay/for_sale.htm
>This equipment has been in my closet since I got my first PC in '87
>I wan't to sell as a package.
>Gary
>
>
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NEC APC
that reminds me. we always fancied an nec apc... but what we wanted even
more than that was a samurai s16. anyone else remember these? also 8"
disks, 8088 running at around 4MHz, 128k basic ram, design that looked
very apc-ish and quite lisa-ish also (there were a number of machines
with that styling. immediately we can think of the lisa, nec apc, ncr
decision mate/v, samurai s16. any more...?)
the last we heard of the s16, some firm was flogging it off for 400 quid
a throw or thereabouts, in response to the amstrad el cheapo pc.
-- Communa (together) we remember... we'll see you falling
you know soft spoken changes nothing to sing within her...
Net-Tamer V 1.08X - Test Drive
[tony duell]
:Didn't they? There's at least one PC-jr in the UK in operational
:condition, although without the original PSU, so I can't comment
:whether there was ever an IBM 240V transformer unit for them. Mind
:you, the technical manual only lists a 115V model.
some of them must have leaked across the atlantic, even in some official
capacity, but they were certainly never sold here. they were axed in the
us before they could be introduced here. given how long britain had to
wait for the ibm pc (and the resultant popularity of the sirius) it
isn't really all that surprising...
we also seem to remember personal computer world reviewing a model that
they described as "the pcjr done right", which was called something like
the jx and was only available in japan, and used 3.5" disks years before
anything else did. are we remembering correctly...?
-- Communa (together) we remember... we'll see you falling
you know soft spoken changes nothing to sing within her...
Net-Tamer V 1.08X - Test Drive
At 09:37 PM 2/26/98, you wrote:
>Awww! And all I've been able to get this week is a HP-97, HP-9815 with
>various interfaces and a HP 9871 printer and a Commodore Pet 2083 with
>MODEM, dual disk drive, printer and tractor feed attachment with all the
>docs and software.
Geez, where do you guys keep all these computers??? My wife would kill me,
and my daughter of 19 months would tear them up. This is one reason why I
collect GRiD laptops. They are the last word in durability, and are small
compared to desktop systems and others.
(BTW, All I did this week was get Red Hat 5.0 setup and running on both my
home and work machines, not that I'm trying to go off topic or anything...)
That's the dog I programmed. SNES.
A
-----Original Message-----
From: kroma <kroma(a)worldnet.att.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, March 02, 1998 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: 16 bit 6502?! No, you don't want it... trust me!
>
>
>>Having spent 2 years programming the 65816, believe me you DON'T want to
>>play with a 16 bit 6502!!!! The memories, the memories.... There was a
>>processor dog if ever I saw one. Interpretation of opcodes was dependant
>on
>>the mode the processor was set to, and so if you branched to a section of
>>code when you were in the wrong mode, results were... screwy.
>>
><snip>
>
>(Getting off topic a bit)
>I believe Nintendo did pretty good with it in their second generation
>system, the "Super Nintendo."
>
> -- Kirk
>
>
>
>Having spent 2 years programming the 65816, believe me you DON'T want to
>play with a 16 bit 6502!!!! The memories, the memories.... There was a
>processor dog if ever I saw one. Interpretation of opcodes was dependant
on
>the mode the processor was set to, and so if you branched to a section of
>code when you were in the wrong mode, results were... screwy.
>
<snip>
(Getting off topic a bit)
I believe Nintendo did pretty good with it in their second generation
system, the "Super Nintendo."
-- Kirk
