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On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, C. Boyer wrote:
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> wife & I move into our new home.
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> Has a nice BIG basement....unfinished....1950sq ft.......hmmm!
>
> Cliff Boyer
> Computer collector with small but growing collection!
>
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Hi Scott,
I think I'd be interested in the xerox and the Amstrad.
Are they spoken for yet?
Where are you located? I'm in NH.
Thanks,
Jon
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>Hello All:
>
>I was lucky enough to buy the old building downtown where I have stored
>and worked on all my old machines over the past three years, but
>renovation is starting soon and some of this stuff has to GO! I wondered
>if any of you are interested in any of this stuff:
>
>LOTS of PCJr parts (most new in the box)
>Several complete working Juniors, one with expanded RAM, 2nd story 3.5"
>720K floppy, and Ramdrive. Some really interesting software for these,
>original M'soft Flight Simulator, Lotus 123 (on cartridge rom for pete's
>sake), even an accounting software package. and others!
>
>1 Amstrad PC640 w/software (and a lot of spare parts and monitors for
>same).
>
>1 Apple IIe ( w/ 2 floppies, monitor, just a few pieces of software, a
>couple of original manuals w/disks)
>1 Amdek Apple color monitor (one RCA Video-in jack)
>
>LOTS of PC XT's (doesn't everyone want one of these?)
>
>1 Xerox 16/4 with COMPLETE documentation, machine boots and runs fine
>from floppy, but HDD fails to pass initialization (think it needs a new
>controller card).
>
>MUCHOS basic Commodore stuff, no fancy REU's or anything, but several
>complete working systems with matching floppy drives, C64, C64c, Vic20.
>Also C128, C16, piece of a Colt 286. Also 1 non-working PET 2001.
>Printer interface for C64.
>
>2 Hewlett Packard things (I think I promised these to a listmember in
>Florida, if you are reading this, please get in touch, as I have
>forgotten your name!)
>
>Anyway, if you can use any of this stuff, please contact me. I don't
>expect to get rich off the sales and I'd rather another collector get it
>than dumpsterize it. I live in Eastern NC so factor that into the
>shipping. I will try to make a more complete inventory of this stuff and
>put it on my website if there is enough interest in it.
>
>Kirk Scott
>scottk5(a)ibm.net
>
Hm, up to this point I thought it was all National's idea.
< Did the 8X305 belong to SMS also? Or was the enhanced
< chip a National invention?
Nope, Signetics improved it under cross license to SMS.
< That's a Harvard archetcture, right?
To the rest of us up here it's Hahvad. ;)
Allison
> On 24 Aug 98 at 21:02, Uncle Roger wrote:
>
> > At 11:45 AM 8/24/98 PDT, you wrote:
> > >Today I saw an Atari 5?0ST and an 800XL. As I understand,
> the ST ran
> > >GEM. Is this an interesting computer at all? What about the XL? Was
> > >this one of the BASIC computers?
> >
> > 520ST does indeed run GEM; it's about equivalent to a Mac
> Plus or so.
>
> Not to start a flame-war or anything but I have a 4 meg Mac+
> and there's no
> way it is the equivalent of an ST. The only thing they had in
> common was the
> 68000 processor. In productivity applications, games, music
> programs, graphics,
> and ease of use it is vastly superior. The proper comparison
> would be the
> Amiga, which excelled in graphics versus the ST which
> excelled in music. Their
> capabilities IMHO exceeded the later 386 and with the various
> add-ons is
> still my machine of choice when not on the net. It's just a
> pleasure to use.
I'd like to chime in here. The Amiga was a great machine for Graphics,
Video, AND music during it's time (which is still ongoing). It was very
easy to attach a midi interface and there were alot of really killer
sequencers available. Plus, the Amiga bore the MOD music file format!
Must unsubscribe for a week or so while my
wife & I move into our new home.
Has a nice BIG basement....unfinished....1950sq ft.......hmmm!
Cliff Boyer
Computer collector with small but growing collection!
Hey, how about Soviet military parades? Best of both worlds!
>
>At 05:34 PM 8/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>Myself, I prefer dancing and singing to celebrate things. What
happened
>>to dressing up in costumes and building floats and giving away free
stuff
>>like candy or food?
>>
>>Ah well...
>
>Blame the lawyers and the liabililty laws... (from a one time float
>builder and one who remembers when it was actually fun to be in a
parade)
>
>-jim
>
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I was going to suggest that but since I've never used them, I was
afraid someone might like them. Why the Altair, though?
How about we all pitch in and build a nuclear-powered electromagnetic
mass driver to hurl the ENIAC into space (inadvertentley destroying
an oncoming alien fleet and being the saviours of the world)?
>
>< > Here's a question: what _obsolete_ computer would you choose for
this
>< > miracle machine, assuming you have unlimited power?
><
>< I'd get out my best documentary camera, place an Altair on the
catapult
>< and then film you guys trying to catch it. :-)
>
>I'd want to be the one pulling the catapult release. ;)
>
>But, before I did that one it would be a TI99/4a... nice cpu hobbled by
a
>really bad design.
>
>Allison
>
>
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Anthony Clifton wrote:
> It never ceases to amaze me that, when offered an opportunity to
> celebrate in a positive manner, groups of people will choose to smash,
> burn and destroy things instead. If it were some kind of demonstration
> against a particular company for some kind of social violations, it least
> smashing a computer made by that company would have some kind of symbolic
> purpose (albeit still a negative one). But to just smash something for
> the hell of it.
>
> I think there's a song about smashing a "perfectly good guitar."
>
> Myself, I prefer dancing and singing to celebrate things. What
> happened to dressing up in costumes and building floats and giving away
> free stuff like candy or food?
I was hoping not to get drawn into this somewhat strange thread, but...
I agree with Anthony. (Why is smashing pottery always such a popular
sideshow at the fair?) I have noticed a similar trend in other areas,
such as sponsored events to raise money for charity. People always want
to be sponsored to do something useless like walking 1000 miles or
jumping out of an aeroplane (airplane). If it's a worthwhile cause they
are supporting, I'll go ahead and sponsor them, but why can't we have
sponsored events like "Pick up all the litter in the neighbourhood -
sponsorship per bag collected"? The worst thing is, no-one would
sponsor people to do something useful because "Aren't the council
supposed to be doing it anyway? Why am I paying council tax? [Rant,
Rant]"
Sad, but that's human nature for you.
Philip.
