I was offered the following system:
>The other machine is an A.B.DICK Magna-writer. This is a 8085 based
>machine with 64K of ram, two internal 250K floppy drives and a built-in
>monochrome monitor. This is a monster. I would bet that with the keyboard
>it weighs over 70 lbs. It was working well also, last time I checked.
>There is also a matching Diablo 630 daisywheel printer that goes along
>with the system."
Should I jump for it? It's near me, outside Madison, WI.
- John
--- allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote:
> H19 or Z19 (kit or assembled) terminals and they are VT52 compatables.
As has been mentioned here extensively, I've been restoring an H-11. It
includes an H19 that I haven't even turned on yet. If I run into trouble,
does anyone have docs I could get a copy of?
Thanks,
-ethan
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I picked up a couple of Zenith Data Systems Terminals this
weekend. I can't find any indication of a model number anywhere
on them. They look sort of like the Heath H-89 system (I think
that's the one) but without the built in disk drive. Any one tell me
what model this is? I can get a pic up on the web if that would help
you out.
Thanks.
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I have everything but cards, power supply and the rack itself up for grabs -
rackmount cage and backplane, two hard drive shelves, 1.2 GB (!) CDC HD, the CPU
meter plate, the four fans, screws, etc.... I am in SoCal, and due to the size
pickup might be the way to go. I got these for cheap, and am passing that on to
whomever may be interested. Email me if you are interested in these before they
go to eBay....
Joe
I have unearthed a box full of late 1970s PCB's for an NEC phone system, called "Patrician" I believe. Lot's of interesting things plugged into them. Free for the shipping, which will probably be $5.00 by UPS ground if you're in CA.
Wayne
My main concern with the eBay auction algorithm is that it is
time-limited, rather than bid-limited.... the aution closes after a
fixed span **no matter what the bidding activity is**.
'Normal' auctions close when **no further bids are recieved** in an
agreed-upon span.
I have bought and sold hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of
aerospace and industrial surplus at auctions large and small,
sealed-bid and open-floor, honestly run and 'otherwise'. The reason
I dislike the eBay model is that the item most often goes to the
fastest/luckiest bidder (sniper)... and that's totally wacked, IMHO.
I am not going to join the "capitalism vs. overvaluation" debate.
I'm a captialist *and* a collector... that's internal conflict
enough.
I wonder how much tweaking would be involved on the part of eBay's
logicians to convert it over to the more familiar "going, going,
gone!" type of format.
What do You All think??
Cheers
John
As the weekend progressed, I kept digging. Under a PDP-8/L I found an MM-11
box with five MM-11 backplanes (for the 4K sets), a peripheral backplane
(KM-11?) a PSU, several UNIBUS jumpers, missing only the fans and bracket.
Presumably now, I could assemble several MM11 sets and test them from
some other PDP-11, say an 11/34, which happens to be nearby. Hopefully,
additional digging will uncover the 11/20 cpu chassis. I did locate the
box with the CPU boards and all the core drivers. The box had apparently
gotten wet and some of the cut leads on the back of the board have rusted
a little. I'll need to figure out how to get that stuff off before I power
anything up.
Another gem I thought I'd lost was my TVT-6 - a T.V. Typewriter I bought and
assembled as a kid with lots of intentions of doing something interesting with
it. I never even applied power. Looking back on the shape that board is in,
I must say that I've gotten *much* better at soldering. :-)
Perhaps I'll attach it to my SYM-1.
-ethan
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>I picked up a couple of Zenith Data Systems Terminals this
>weekend. I can't find any indication of a model number anywhere
>on them. They look sort of like the Heath H-89 system (I think
>that's the one) but without the built in disk drive. Any one tell me
>what model this is?
Sounds like the venerable Z-19 to me.
I always thought of the H-89 as a Z-19 with a built in computer, not
the other way around :-).
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> >So where was this quake for us less informed types?
> >
> >--Chuck
>
> A 7.0 about 30 miles N of Joshua Tree (that is, about 90 miles
> ENE of downtown LA). See
>
Natural disasters are not unique to the left coast. This weekend, Huricane
Irene visited South Florida and endangered some of my collection. Although
there was very wind damage, there is a trememdous amount of rain associated
with the storm.
I got about 6" of water in my garage but was able to get almost everything
off the floor before the flooding began. Luckly I was home when it started
getting deep.
Steve Robertson - <steverob(a)hotoffice.com>
