I have a bunch of DFI serial/parallel adapters for sale for $7.50 each
($20 for 3) plus shipping, with docs. They have the Winbond chipset that
includes 16550 UARTS and gives you 2 serial and 2 parallel ports.
Better than an A/B switch if you run more than one printer, or great if
you have a parllel port device like scanner. No more worry about
conflicts. Works great under DOS through Win98. I have one in everyone
of my 8 bit and 16 bit machines and one in my EISA server. This one is
excess and needs a good home
Totally setable to whatever you need. The docs (if you want to look at
them) are available in PDF format at
ftp://ftp.dfiusa.com/multi_io_cards/DIO222/d220830.pdf Full
spcifications are shown. Includes 2 9 pin serial and 2 25 pinprinter
ports, one of each on the card and one of each on an addtional slot
filler, but you can move these to case openings if you desire. Shipping
is minmal, probably $3.25 for a couple of them.
Also have a couple Intel (and other brands) 14,400 baud internal
faxmodems. Windows 95 and 98 see them fine and they work great with Win
3.1 and DOS too. All clean and in great shape. $6 each or 3 for $15 plus
shipping. Again, a light item. These work great for someone with an
occasional need for internet, send/recv faxes or to use free email or
call BBS systems..
These items are for sale to US and APO/FPO addresses only. Shipping to
other countries is not cost effective and is a real pain in many cases.
I use USPS parcel post, insured unless priority is real close to the
same price.
Drop me a direct email if interested. Payment by money order only. Ships
the same or next day as payment is recieved.
These are items I have picked up for other projects and ended up with
way too many, these are not connected with a business and are personal
sales.
At 09:31 AM 1/20/99 -0500, William Donzelli wrote:
>> > What makes some of today's technology fragile is simply the density, or
>> > equivalenty, the lack of redundancy in a given area.
>
>Take a look at the specification for how CDs are formatted. You may be
>suprised to find out that a good chunck (more than just a few percent) is
>dedicated to error correction! That is why you do not hear all of the
>scratches in poorly handled CDs.
Well, hearing an error on an audio CD might be difficult.
If cost is no object, you could have the data pressed to a mastered
CD, as opposed to burning a CD-R at home. The "real" aluminum
mastering process entails a "glass master" that might last longer
than the aluminum foil version. Are there any CD mastering plants
that give you an option of true gold foil, to avoid oxidation?
- John
At 02:56 PM 1/19/99 -0800, you wrote:
>::Meanwhile, no one's ever heard of a Zorba, so I don't know why the two I've
>::heard about sold for over $100.
>
>Okay, I'll bite: what's a Zorba?
Suitcase luggable, CP/M, much like the Kaypro. The company that made the
Zorba was supposedly coming out with another model, but I don't know if
they ever did.
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E-bay: Protectionism or laissez-faire... an old, old debate.
I personally *hate* e-bay for No Good Reason, and choose not to
participate... not the least Bad Reason of which is my own financial
health. I buy enough Stuff via the Net as it is. But that's just Me.
Philsophically... E-bay is Capitalistic and Darwinistic. One can
rail against the concept or embrace it. C'est la Vie.
I spent some years in the Electronic/Aerospace surplus business,
and I have been in thousands of auctions of every type.
It's like This: Ya win some, an' Ya lose some.
I know exactly, precisely how it is to have counted every penny
one has to put on something Really Really desireable, only to be
outdone at the last moment by some schmuck with deeper pockets. And
of course, I've been that schmuck, too.
E-bay is a 'public' forum, ie. access is not restricted. This is a
'private' list (sorta), and is (lightly) regulated; I am violating
those regs right now.
What the crux of Dougs' and Marvin's contretemps [where's all this
Francais coming from...?] is the Morality of providing a 'heads-up'
to this List of an item on e-bay which might be of interest to one
or more listmembers.
My tuppence: If I find a nice juicy PDP-11 system for sale, I will
either buy it myself, and crow about it here afterwards, or pass on it
and announce it here for others to consider. Then, IMHO, the same
situation obtains: someone will be successful and the others will be
dissappointed. C'est la Vie X2. I see no difference if the Item is
languishing on a lonely loading dock or represented on a public
auction forum.
Private Note to Doug and Marv: Could you please patch this up
prior to TRW Saturday (the 30th)??? I'm buying lunch for everyone
in the group (after the T-hunt) and I'd like to eat peacefully...
----> ;} <-----
Cheerz
John
I don't know if it's on topic but I got back my bid report from Berman and
some folks have asked me to record the prices so here they are: (Berman ==
www.berman.com)
A pallet of four NeXT cubes w/Monitors and drives $325
A pallet of Tektronix plugins $297
An SGI Crimson Server $210
A Sun 4/330 (Dual CPU) Server $60
A set of three SparcStation IIs $501
A complete Mac IIci (printer, monitor the works) $70
Cheers,
--Chuck
ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
> > I found two Corvus Systems PC Bus Transporter cards that fit 8 bit ISA
> > slot. I don't need them. Anyone can have them for the cost of shipping.
>
> If anyone ends up with these, I spent a bit of time hacking around on
> Transputers (including making a hand-wired transputer board) and I have a
> shelf of docs for them.
Tony is probably realizing his case of classiccmp aphasia right now,
but Transporter != Transputer. The Corvus Transporter cards are
Omninet interfaces, and if they have CPUs on them they are probably
8-bit 680x.
-Frank McConnell
I found a box of old computer stuff today. I didn't think it was much till
I cleaned it up and looked at it. Boy, appearances can be deceiving!
Here's what I got:
Qume Sprint 9/45 and 9/55 terminal service manual, operator's
instruction manual and intefacing information.
THREE BRAND NEW WordStar 3.0 packages with disks and manuals in the
original MicroPro binders.
THREE BRAND NEW SuperSort 1.6 packages with disks and manuals in the
original MicroPro binders.
One BRAND NEW CalcStar 1.2 package with disk and manual in the original
MicroPro binder.
THREE BRAND NEW SpellStar 1.2 packages with disks and manuals in the
original plastic bag from MicroPro.
THREE BRAND NEW MailMerge 3.0 packages with disks and manuals in the
original plastic bag from MicroPro.
One brand new package of WorkSheet Wizard with disk and manual in the
original plastic bag. The docs for this one state that it's for a North
Star Advantage.
The manuals HINT that all of this is for a CPM system. All the disks
are hard sectored 5 1/4" disk with 11 index/sector holes.
Q: What system other than North Star used hard sectored 10 sector disks?
Joe
In a message dated 1/21/99 1:23:18 PM EST, jpero(a)cgocable.net writes:
> I just finally got around to borrow a TTL monitor and tried out the RT
> 6151. It did boot off the disk but one thing I have problem with this
> is rapidly blinking "99" even the keyboard lock is in unlocked
> position. That happened when booting off the diskette I have here.
>
> Checked the microswitch all the way to the motherboard connector
> end. It's ok!
>
> Thanks!
somewhere in command central i have a list of all the checkpoint codes for the
RT but i cannot find it right now. 99 means missing boot files IIRC.
david
>I hate to bring this up again, but has anyone seen the present bid compared
to the
>start bid, and where the high bidder is from, Association for Computing
Machinery
>(acm.org)?? I must have missed the original thread on this but it seems a
bit high
>for a :kind of beat up and working condition unknown" machine. How "rare"
are the
>PDP-8's Seems I see a lot of traffic about them here, they can't be *that*
rare.
I'm joebar(a)acm.org. I know, I'm stupid, but it was just sort of an
impulse kind of thing.
I don't know what the start bid was, but I just somehow entered a
bid a little higher than the reserve. I was thinking, "how much did I
spend last year on that dumb P5-166 box", and used that as a
figure, given that the PDP-8 undoubtably has greater long term
value than the P5-166. (Isn't rationalization wonderful? :-)
- Joe
