For all you Amiga fanatics, I ran across an Amiga store in Dnever (well,
Aurora, actually). It's called The Computer Room, and they can be found at
<http://www.computerroom.com/> or at 2760 S. Havana St., Aurora, CO,
1-303-696-8973.
They also had a machine in there in a very purple case. (Not disgusting
Barney purple, but really cool fast purple.)
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At 08:27 PM 8/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
>That's Magnavox Odyssey. Is it just the Odyssey, or Odyssey2? If you got
>a plain Odyssey (circa 1972) then you've got yourself quite a find.
Yep, Magnavox. Left the brain home this trip. 8^) (Or fried it driving
24 hours straight.) And it was an Odyssey 2. Actually ended up with 2 of
them, one with permanently connected joysticks and one with a Dx-9
connected joysticks. And no, I don't collect video games. (In spite of
having the Atari Pong, Atari Pinball (on loan), 2 Odysseys, 2 TV Fun's,
Atari 2600, Atari Lynx, Atari Jaguar...)
>> "TV (that is, two (2)) game consoles, and an Atari Pong game in the box.
>
>Atari Pong is cool.
I thought so. 8^) The first part of that should have been 'two [APF] "TV
Fun" game consoles', btw.
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Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/
At 10:45 AM 8/3/98 -0500, you wrote:
>(I was once appalled by the brisk cash gathered by a "reviewer"
>of books for a newsletter for librarians, who'd turn a bagful
>of new books into cash each week at the nearest used book store,
>after dismissing each with barely a paragraph "review".)
Heck, I've got a brother (not my fault) who gets stuff for free just by
passing out a business card for a fake magazine along with a heaping
helping of BS. Unfortunately, I once made the mistake of saying he could
use my fax to receive something, now I get all kinds of junk fax addressed
to him or various pseudonyms he's made up.
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Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/
At 07:49 PM 7/31/98 +1700, you wrote:
>A few years ago, I heard a rumor bandied about somewhere on Usenet that
>BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, a rail system running around some of the
>San Francisco Bay) was, even to this day, controlled by pdp8/e systems.
Well, it is computer controlled, and being 25 years old or so... That
would be around the right era, I think?
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Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/
Well, all I can say is if you're going to Denver from San Francisco, (or
vice-versa,) fly. We spent 24 hours getting there, with only food/bathroom
stops, and a 1/2hr nap somewhere in Nevada. 8^)
Anyway, We went to the Mile High Flea Market which turned up a Magnavox
Odyssey 2 (+ 7 games) and 2 APF TV Fun machines. (And some Fisher-Price
cars/people.)
Then we hit a number of thrift shops where we found 2 different versions of
a VTL/VTech learning computer, ca. 1980+ (I already had one, the oldest of
the three.) We also came up with another Odyssey 2, an Alphie II (learning
toy in the shape of a robot), and an Atari Pong game in the box.
We passed up an NEC APC (vt-100 like machine, with 2 8" floppies,) a
Commodore PC-20 III, Franklin Ace 1000, and a few others at the ARC about
10000 E. Colfax, and an Amstrad PCW 8256 at the ARC on Florida and S.
Broadway. The keyboard and main unit were there, but separated, I reunited
them and told the guy to keep them together.
The last one we stopped at, on the way out of town was on W. 74th(?) near
Wadsworth. There we left behind an apollo monitor (labelled "Domain") and
a PCjr Monitor. What we did get was an IBM 5155(? The suitcase one) and a
TI ProLite laptop, with powersupply and "drive box" (additional disk drive
that attaches to the back.)
The former was marked at $12.99 and the latter was $24.99. I took them up
to pay and asked the gal if she could reduce the price on the TI (it never
hurts to ask!). She called the guy from the furniture department
(computers are furniture, btw) and asked him. He looked at what I had,
crossed out the price on the TI and wrote "2pc" on both computers. I got
'em both for $12.99.
We also got, over the course of the week, about a dozen pairs of tap shoes,
but not much Donald Duck stuff.
Anyway, if you're in the area, you should keep any eye on the ARC stores.
They seem to get a lot of stuff, and regularly have 1/2 price or even $.99
sales.
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Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/
I had some trouble with my email today and 20 messages were deleted. If
anybody on the list sent me any email and didn't receive a reply please
resend.
Tom Owad
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< I'm just curious -- I always like to know more about how hardware works
< this case doesn't work). Could the drive have some sort of "intelligenc
< is trapping you? I put "intelligence" in quotes because these things ne
< actually intelligent.
No. it's a matter of media format. the FD55-B was designed for 40 track
two sided and works well for that. RX50 however is 80tracks 1 sided.
While the 1/2 side this is a us it or not thing the 40/80 track thing is
actually a mechanical design of the drive.
The FD55-b works for a lot of formats but DEC was always non-standard
with the rx50.
Allison
Here is a web page that lists auctions of former U.S. military equipment
(nothing *that* fancy, but there are CPUs, monitors, printers, copiers, etc in
there.) Lists by lots as well as by areas.
Here's the URL:
http://www.drms.com/
If anyone actually goes to one of these or wins a bid, let us know what you
get and/or what it's like, ok?
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