This thread is becoming awesome!!
OK I've been holding off. Since I'm the great procrastinator, I've been
avoiding catalogueing what I've got.
Synapsis is I've got 40 to 50 computers, heavy into Atari and PS2
Many monitors that I'm weeding out to keep the unique ones like the
Radius Portrait for Apples or historic like the IBM 5151and 5153.
Vic-20, C-64 ,C-64c, C128
Mac Plus, Apple II, IIPlus , IIe
CoCo 1 and CoCo 2
TI 4/99
TRS80 model II with 3 physically huge 8 meg HDDs
Phillips Micom 2000 dedicated WP with an 8" Shugart
and a Qume daisy wheel printer that has a power supply big enough
to power a small villiage.
Epson QX-10 which I'm only missing a monitor to activate.
Phillips XT Luggable with pop-up floppies. The nicest design I've seen yet for
a luggable.
Kaypro 2X that I haven't got running yet, but soon.
DEC Rainbow, one of my first garbage finds that after 4 years I finally have
the all hardware for. Last week a local store anti'd up a BC002 cable.
Wang PC002 no means of I/O , but I'm sure it will turn up.
NEC Prospeed 286 laptop
Numerous other MSDOS boxes
I think what especially interests me are the external hacks. Like the
Intel Inboard 386 board.in a 5150, or the hardcard drives. I have a good
proportion of the Atari and C64 add-ons. I have an X1541 cable for a C64. The
adapter on my CoCo 2 that I still haven't explored its use. A Videomate to use
my old boxes as TV's long before the new TV cards for Windoze. Of course you
could do the same with a VCR and a composite video. Quickshot remote control
Joysticks Some graphics tablets.
These were all attempts to respond to a burgeoning home-computer market that
were developed in response to consaumer wants. Many of these small but
highly innovative companies quickly disappeared. The boards switches were
not easily evident unless you had the documentataion So if the board cloned
the IBM docunentation you're home-free but if it was a board that had
anomilies, you're on your own. That to me is one of the values of this m-l .
Having access to true hardware hackers like Tony Duell and Allison and others.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
Hi Tony and all,
At 01:07 PM 7/19/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Greetings...
>
>I'm got a partially faultly Sirius (aka Victor 9000?) on the bench at the
>moment, and it appears to have (at least) a sound fault.
>
>Alas there are 2 chips in the sound circuitry that I can't find any data
>on :
>
>Harris CI55516-9 (16 pin DIL, maybe a codec or similar)
>Spague (?) ULN3701Z (5 pin TO220, audio amplifier).
>
Pin 1. audio input.(+)
Pin 2. Feedback.(-)
Pin 3. ground
Pin 4. out
Pin 5. Vcc
Uses the same circuit as National LM 383.
-Dave
Hi Richard and all
At 08:41 AM 7/19/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello, all:
>
> While going through the old Popular Electronics magazines that I
>recently got, I found two article series that I would like to have complete,
>but I'm missing two issues...bummer.
>
> Does anyone have the following and would be willing to mail me a copy:
>
> 1. Popular Electronics, March 1977, Part 3 of the "Build the
>Cosmac Elf" construction article.
>
I have this one, it is 5 pages. The memory used is 8 2102 ram's.
Don't have the first 2, August, 1976 or September 1976, however.
-Dave
I also want to brag that I got a Compaq Lite-25 486. This is not a
classic, and I am about to go to Compaq's site to research it. A
question: does anyone know what their power connector pinout is? It's
a weird little three-pin thing like the compaq monitor power
interface. Does anyone have plugs or know where to get them?
>That's not terribly amazing.
>
>Its basically a Compaq 286 portable. Probably from around the 1986 or
>1987 timeframe.
>
>What did you pay for it? That's what its worth (to you).
>
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i did some bartering a while back and got a mitsubishi 286 laptop circa 1987 i
think. it boots up to some post errors which i can get past by hitting F1.
it's a phoenix bios, and i've tried every key combination thats's known to
access the cmos setup, all to no avail. it appears to have a hard drive, but
am unable to access it. i've web searched everywhere, but cannot find any
support contact for this machine. i ended up round filing a mitsubishi 386dx
machine last year because i couldnt find any info on it. i didnt even get any
replies in comp.sys.laptops about this laptop. help anyone?
david
I've a number of Transputer boards dating from the late
eighties which fit into PCs. Whilst I can use any one
single board, I've been unable to install more than one
board as I've no information on the jumper and dip switch
settings. Of course, some boards may not be capable of being
anything other than the root transputer. Anyone
have, or know where I can find such information on the following
boards:
Transtech TMB04
Sundance ST101
Gemini GM8101
Microway Monoputer2
Thanks,
Doug.
I can't find who was originally asking to locate some copies of OS/2. I
just pulled down a copy of Warp (requires Windows already installed).
The software comprises 2 floppies to install and 1 CD with the OS/2 v3
system and a "bonus" CD with IBM Works, Online access and 'more'.
The CDs are still shrink wrapped. I can't verify that it's original but
I know that where I picked them up would have no reason to re-wrap them.
I have no burning desire to let these go but if the people who
originally asked, or anyone else, REALLY needs it, I'll send them for
6.00 (six bucks) plus shipping.
Unfortunately for everyone, I ran OS/2 v3 for a while when it came out.
It turned a marginal machine into a hummer on the internet. It was
probably an excellent OS, just not too popular.
Please contact me direct at:
mallison(a)konnections.com
Thanks,
Mike
Muchas Gracias to Allison and Megan and Tony (O My!) for your help
with RT-11... the machine is running as I type this, and displaying
a directory... all entries no later than 1979... just about the
time I was spending long nights trying to figure out the Cromemco
Z2H that I had pieced together... all I had was the monitor and 16K
of RAM.. so I never shut it off for weeks... and a GE Terminet for
a console, so at the end of a session the room was swimming in roll
paper covered with hex....
Now to get the 2nd RK05 running.... THEN to figure out how to
make the RL02s peacefully co-exist in the system... THEN to install
one of my old classic modems, and write to my list friends from the
DEC system.... THEN....
But first things first.
Thanks again!!
Cheers
John
I picked up a nice, small, 9-track tape drive made by Qualstar for use
with IBM PCs. The fellow I got it from said he had the ISA adapter and
software and manuals "somewhere in a box". Of course, he can't find
them, and it's the adapter and software that I'm really after, since
Pertec-interface 9-track drives are fairly common.
(I'd like to think this isn't the old "promise the important stuff to
have someone haul away the big stuff" ploy, but it's happened to me
several times now!)
Pehaps someone out there has one, or knows the whereabouts of an
ISA Pertec adapter, probably made by Qualstar, Chi Corporation, or
Overland Data. Software and docs to go with it are almost mandatory,
and anything that runs under DOS/Windows or any flavor of PC Unix is
OK.
Thanks,
Dave
Sam:
could you please tell me what isbn number and the publisher was on the
"Computer power for small business" book though I could try and track it
down in some used book syores around here.
thanx
Chris
At 10:25 AM 06/02/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>I added another 37 volumes to my vintage computer library yesterday.
>
>By far the most valuable from a historical standpoint is the book
>_Computer Power for the Small Business_ from 1979. It is a buyer's guide
>for microcomputers of the mid- to late -0's era. Talk about a treasure.
>This book has pictures and decriptions of many computers I've never even
>heard of.
>
>It contains information on systems we know much of, such as the Atari's,
>Apple, PETs, Radio Shack, etc. But it also has blurbs on systems that
>I've not seen mentioned anywhere else (at least not in a way that is
>looking back on these systems with a historical perspective) like the RCA
>Cosmac VIP, the Sol-20, Exidy Sorcerer, Heathkit H-8 and H-11, Intecolor
>8031.
>
>The best part is the descriptions of systems I've never knew about before.
>Has anyone ever heard of an Outpost computer? Its a fully integrated
>package with keyboard, display and 5.25" drive, but its almost three feet
>wide, with the two 5.25" drive bays to the side of the display! How about
>the PeCos One from APF Electronics. I have a pong machine made by APF but
>who would've thought they once made computers? How about The Renaissance
>Machine (aka Compucolor II)? There's also mention of the Teal SHC-8000,
>which is sort of like a pet with display, keyboard and cassette player in
>one unit.
>
>It then has a listing with about 40 different system descriptions,
>including CPU, memory, external storage, input (ie. keyboard, lightpen),
>output (ie. display, printer) and basic cost. There's also the company
>address which is extremely valuable for research.
>
>Here's an interesting tidbit. Apparently Data General made a line of
>computers dubbed "The Digital Group". According to this entry in the
>table, they were systems based on the Z-80, 8080A, 9080A, 6800 and 6502
>processors; they had 2K of main memory; they used cassettes for storage.
>Can anyone verify this?
>
>I also got another similar book entitled _The Peter McWilliams Personal
>Computer Buying Guide_ circa 1985. I haven't had a chance to go through
>it in much detail but it is basically more nice descriptions of early- to
>mid-80's computers, again some of which I've never heard of. I'll do a
>review later.
>
>In my travels I also picked up a Victor 800 electric adding machine. I
>don't collect adding machines and only rare grab them for specific
>reasons. In this case, this is the same Victor as the Victor 9000
>computer. I knew right away because the 'o' in the "Victor" emblem was
>that striped-circle that is telling of a Victor product (plus it had a
>Scott's Valley, CA address on the back).
>
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