At 06:19 PM 8/15/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey, Apple weenies, I just picked up a dignostic ROM for the Mac LC, LCII,
>and CLSII. It includes trouble-shooting docs. $12000 or best offer :-)
>
>-- Doug
Ok $.50 . That's my best offer.
Oh, you said Apple weenies. Well that leaves me out.
Joe
>
>What you have there is a VT103... it has a 4x4 backplane (Q/Q) and a
>more gutsy power supply than a standard VT100. Yes, you can build
>a working pdp-11 into it... One of my 'workhorse' machines when I was
I have some VT100 lookalikes lying around, a VT101 and a VT131.
Any chance that these also can be turned into PDP11's?
>I thought the VDP-40 was that all-in-one computer that
IMSAI came out with in the same timeframe that was so bug-ridden that
most
were returned to IMSAI and hardly any are in existence anymore?
Except for the floppy drive/controller the machine ran ok. I never had
a memory or CPU failure. Unfortunately, the floppy drives didn't work
so well, and the controller seemed to work only during certain phases of
the moon.
Are they rare? Okay, list bargain, I'll part with mine (no, don't thank
me) for a mere $5000 (US or CDN, hey, i'll absorb the arbitrage
difference). Cash of course, small unmarked bills, delivered by courier
overnight.
Jack Peacock
Well, I certainly wasn't disappointed on my first trip to the MIT flea
market this weekend. I went there with childish entusiasm and $200 in my
pocket and left with:
1 Atari 800 - Not working but I can fix it (needs a new 6502 wich I got
tons of)
1 Vic-20 - Working
1 TI99/4A (Cream Colored) - Working
1 Macintosh Portable - Needs some work
1 Osborne 1 - Needs work but I got the technical manual with it
1 Osborne Executive - Powers up but I need a boot disk
1 Kaypro 1 - Powers up, need boot disk
1 Kaypro 2 - Powers up, need boot disk
1 Kaypro 4 - Powers Up and boots (came with Wordstar, Microplan,
Basic-80, and CP/M 2.2)
and $65.00 or so of my original cash.
I also was able to nab a CoCo2 at a local flea for $5
Tony
I got this somewhat neat plotter today made by 3M circa 1984. Its a
portable dealie that can be programmed for different types of bar and pie
charts and plots, plus has text capabilities. It has a keyboard with an
integrated LCD matrix display that slides off the front. It prompts you
for the type of chart you want, then asks you to enter all the data points
in. It then plots it for you. I also got a separate unit that has a
micro-cassette storage drive and a carthridge slot for some type of modem
option.
So anyway, there's a reason why I'm talking about this relatively boring
relic. Last week I was out of town on a project and was going home for
the weekend. On my way to the airport I stopped off at a thrift store.
One of the things I came across was this 3M plotter. It was marked at
$29.99, but this is one of those shops that slashes prices every couple of
days as the thing doesn't sell. I wanted to take it, more so because I
was curious as to what it was, thinking it might be a computer with the
keyboard and micro-cassette storage and all. But I didn't want to spend
$30 on it and I certainly couldn't take it with me on the plane, and
didn't have enough time to grab it, haul it back to the local office, then
high-tail it back to the airport. So I figured when I returned on Monday,
I'd head back to the shop confident it would still be there.
When I got in Monday I missed the store closing by a minute. I came back
in the morning of the next day to find it gone. I asked one of the store
clerks if he knew what happened to it and he said that it was tossed out
the night before. AAGGH!!! I was bummed, only because I thought it might
have been something really neat but didn't have the chance to find out.
Also, I'd failed to write down the model number and thus couldn't do a
useful web search.
I figured one day I would run into one again and would just have to be
patient until then. Well, I would have never thought that day would be so
soon. The best part is the one I got today was cheaper ($7), had a hard
plastic carrying case, came with a (photocopied) manual, and some plotter
paper and pens. And it works (I'm playing with it right now, its actually
really cool, and useful!!) Plus the one I saw last week was on the east
coast, this one was on the west, at a flea market near where my parent's
live that I haven't been to in ages.
So what is the purpose of this long rambling? Uncie Sam's story has a
moral: there's (almost) ALWAYS one more out there, so if you don't get it
the first time, don't fret (and certainly don't pay $12,100 for it).
Serendipity will prevail someday and you'll get one too, but you have to
be out there looking to make it happen.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Hello, all:
Part of the haul this weekend was a DEC RX02 floppy drive and RX211
controller (for my 11/34a). I don't have any data on the controller, so how
do I set it up properly? What are the default settings and what do the
switch positions mean?
Also, the cable that I got seems to have one contuctor broken (the pin-1
designator/red stripe). Is there any magic to the length of the cable? Can I
create a new one of the same length using standard 40-pin IDC connectors and
ribbon cable? Can I shorten it to the break point or should I just patch it?
Any tips here are appreciated.
Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini(a)msn.com>
- ClubWin/CW7
- MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
- Preserver of "classic" computers
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OK, I've spent around 8 hours today going through the pile of PDP-11 stuff
that I got. In doing so I've made a disturbing discovery. Of the 4 RL02
disk packs that contain the media kit for RSX-11M 4.1, 3 of them have red
markers. You know the ones that say don't use if marker is red.
What I want to do is transfer the data off of those packs onto disk images
using one of my MV2's. This isn't a problem as I've done it before, what
concerns me is the safety of doing it since the packs are "Red".
Secondly, can a RL01 be read in a RL02 drive, or will I have to get one of
the RL01's that I got today up and running in order to archive the RL01
packs. I want to get one of them archived ASAP as it has Whitesmith C on
it (and I think Pascal).
None of the RL01's have white/red markers so I've no idea how safe they are.
Zane
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Hello, all:
I made *another* trip to Temple University this weekend, so here's a
rundown on the haul:
- Magazines: the remaining Radio-Electronics and Popular
Electronics issues. I have most issues from mid-1976 to 1982. Byte
Magazine -- 1978 to 1981, scattered issues. I still have to get mid-1981to
1987 (they have to 1993, but Byte
stopped being Byte around 1987 I think). Interface Age -- a handful of
issues. Kilobaud -- a handful of issues. A+ -- random issues.
- some random PC/XT/AT cards (CGA video, floppy cards with a DB37
external port)
- SWTP dual external floppy drive with interface card. This one, plus
two SWTP motherboard units (which I did not take), were under a pile of
new-looking RA81
drives. This is up for trade, since I have no SWTP stuff.
- RX02 and interface card
- Small Houston Instruments flat-bed plotter. Once I get the model#
off of it, I'll be asking for info :-).
I will have go back one more time for the rest of the Byte's :-). After
that, I think that I'm through there.
Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini(a)msn.com>
- ClubWin/CW7
- MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
- Preserver of "classic" computers
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Unfortunatly the subject line describes how a bunch of the PDP-11/03 boards
that I got today came. What is the chance that they are operational?
Zane
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+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
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