I plan to be at the MIT FLEA sunday the 16th, with loads of goodies for
older systems and a stack of vax 3100s.
Also over the weekend I scored a pair of compupro boxes one with 8085/8088
and the other 68000 based.
Also a heath HW207 8" disk (dual drive)
pragmatic designs 20mb sa4000 style disk
Hard disks mfm
software, software, software and manuals.
enough Compupro boards to build another three systems
A few intergrand disk boxen
some DD DS 8" drives
8" 2S Media!
A few Telvideo 9xx series terminals.
If people need DOCs for compupro boards (ANY!!!) I have docs for them
and a few others.
Also I have a line on a ANADEX wide platen (15") printer that has
serial/parallel interface. I have to many already. It's a nice one if
you need something that takes wide paper. Not shipable (cheaply that
is, as it would have to be crated to assure "arrive alive".) It's not
that heavy but large.
Allison
No, I'm not talking about Ebay prices.
Instead I thought you might be interested
in seeing an original Altair Price list
>from July,1976. Here's the link to a jpeg of it...
http://home.att.net/~rwood54741/25.jpg
We have heard that the 680 was a failure
because the 16k memory card for it cost more than
the computer. Take a look at this list and you
will see it in black and white. The 680 computer kit
cost $466 ($625 assembled). The 16K memory card cost
a staggering $685 as a kit and $865 assembled. That
is a whopping $43 per 1k of memory.
Bob Wood
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At 02:13 AM 8/7/98 -0500, you wrote:
>With all of the billionaires overbidding on ebay, Altairs are coming out
>of the woodwork! This should be interesting. Two are for sale (one from
>our own jimw), both have a "reserve", and one has a starting bid of $2500
>which has already been met!
They don't call it E-Pay for nothing!
Joe
Hmmmm, now this sounds ponentially very cool! According to the Field Guide
this is a "Dilog ST-506 emulation of four RL01/02". Any one have info on
this, and will it work in a system that has actually RL02 drives attached?
It would make it a lot easier to get data on to the Hard Drive if I can
just copy it from a RL02 to a fake RL02.
What kind of Hard Drives will work with it?
Is there any kind of setup for it? There is a funky 20-pin connecter
marked J3 that might be for jumpers or a ribbon cable though I don't really
want to try to attach a ribbon cable to it, as it's rather wierdly attached.
Does it have any kind of boot ROMs? Any idea on how well it would co-exist
with a DQ606?
How well do Boards with Boot ROMs co-exist with systems with another set of
Boot ROMs? I'm threatening to throw the DQ606 in the 11/23 that I'm
working on, so I can access the rack of drives that go with the controller.
Well, I'm off to work on archiving some RX-50 floppies prior to actually
trying to use them. Hopefully they're readable! So this should be a break
in my steady stream of questions :^)
Zane
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At 08:46 PM 8/9/98 -0700, Sam Ismail wrote:
>Yeah, its still pretty contemporary in fact. MKS is still alive and
>kicking as far as I know. Did you do a web search?
Uhh, what's the web??? :) Didn't think about doing a search, because of the
age of the disks (1990). Will see what I find.
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- john higginbotham ____________________________
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- limbo limbo.netpath.net -
Looking for some manuals for MKS Toolkit.
It was a set of Unix utils packaged with a Korn shell that all ran under
it's own command shell.
Anyone ever hear of it?
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- john higginbotham ____________________________
- webmaster www.pntprinting.com -
- limbo limbo.netpath.net -
Sometimes I see an EMM.SYS file on older DOS disks, but I can't recall
which DOS disks. (Maybe IBM, or DR, or something else...
At 08:21 PM 8/9/98 -0500, Russ Blakeman wrote:
>Someone I know has just acquired a motherboard, XT type aftermarket,
>with 768k onboard ram. I'm fairly sure the system is going to need a
>special driver to access the memory over DOS's 640k. Anyone have such an
>animal and can attach it to email or know of a commercial program that
>will handle the job?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Russ Blakeman
> RB Custom Services / Rt. 1 Box 62E / Harned, KY USA 40144
> Phone: (502) 756-1749 Data/Fax:(502) 756-6991
> Email: rhblake(a)bbtel.com or rhblake(a)bigfoot.com
> Website: http://members.tripod.com/~RHBLAKE/
> ICQ UIN #1714857
> AOL Instant Messenger "RHBLAKEMAN"
> * Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers*
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>
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- john higginbotham ____________________________
- webmaster www.pntprinting.com -
- limbo limbo.netpath.net -
If anyone has that driver could they send it to me, too? I have a Tandy
1000TL 286 XT w/768K RAM, and no way to access it. Maybe the driver will
work in it, too. Maybe it won't - but it's worth a shot :-)
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(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
ICQ#-1730318
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> From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake(a)bbtel.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
> Subject: EMS/XMS memory driver needed
> Date: Sunday, August 09, 1998 9:21 PM
>
> Someone I know has just acquired a motherboard, XT type aftermarket,
> with 768k onboard ram. I'm fairly sure the system is going to need a
> special driver to access the memory over DOS's 640k. Anyone have such an
> animal and can attach it to email or know of a commercial program that
> will handle the job?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Russ Blakeman
> RB Custom Services / Rt. 1 Box 62E / Harned, KY USA 40144
> Phone: (502) 756-1749 Data/Fax:(502) 756-6991
> Email: rhblake(a)bbtel.com or rhblake(a)bigfoot.com
> Website: http://members.tripod.com/~RHBLAKE/
> ICQ UIN #1714857
> AOL Instant Messenger "RHBLAKEMAN"
> * Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers*
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
OK, gang, last chance! I have a pair of printwheels compatible with either
the Diablo/Xerox 635 series printers or the Xerox 60 series MemoryWriters.
They are NOT compatible with the MemoryWriter 600 series.
I have one each, Courier 10 and Courier 12. Whoever wants them, they're
yours for the cost of postage ($3.00 USPS Priority Mail).
Let me know. If I don't hear anything by Tuesday night this week (the
11th), they're going in the trash.
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