test-drb December 1999

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by Innfogra＠aol.com

In a message dated 12/7/1999 11:18:18 AM Pacific Standard Time, flo(a)rdel.co.uk writes: > I was recently told about radio rallies. > How do you find out where they are held? Go to a ham radio store. Ask. They should have flyers around. Paxton

25 years

Looking for...

by mgregory＠vantageresearch.com

-----Original Message----- From: David Vohs <netsurfer_x1(a)hotmail.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Monday, December 06, 1999 4:53 PM Subject: Looking for... >I am looking for the following items. (Get ready, this is going to be a >pretty varied list!) > >----Pictures of Computers---- >Commodore Hyperion (looks like a Dynalogic Hyperion, & could be the same >thing?) Do you mean a ComTerm Hyperion? AFAIK, Comterm was the Canadian company that manufactured the Hyperion for a while, not Commodore. Commodore didn't get into the PC clone business until the PC-10 (unless you count the A1000 Sidecar). Regards, Mark

25 years

Nostalgic note [Was: Re: Amiga 500, 2000 serial ports: The same?]

by mgregory＠vantageresearch.com

-----Original Message----- From: Owen Robertson <mrdos(a)swbell.net> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 12:18 PM Subject: Re: Nostalgic note [Was: Re: Amiga 500, 2000 serial ports: The same?] >>BUT, how many of those users left *AFTER* the Gateway/Amiga, Inc. made the >>*BIG* announcement :^( From where I'm sitting thier announcement of a >>NextGen Amiga did more to kill the platform than anything. >> >>Of course I'm *REAL* tempted to go into that brand new Gateway store a >>couple miles from me and tell them I want to buy an Amiga 1200. > > >What exactly did Gateway do to Amiga? > > They bought the rights to the Amiga hardware and software from a defunct predecessor, made grandiose announcements (about new products, porting the OS, and reviving the line), got everybody's hopes up, and then dropped the whole thing because it was too little too late and/or uneconomic to serve the declining base of Amiga users. Same thing that Amiga International, Escom, and several others have done since Commodore went bankrupt. Gateway just hurts more because they were: A) the most recent B) rich enough to be a credible hope C) possibly the last, best hope. I can't imagine another major company bidding on the rights to the Amiga after so many others have failed. A sad end to a nice OS that still multi-tasks better than most. Mark (A1000, A500, A3000, A1200) Gregory

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Amiga 1000 Keyboard

by mrdos＠swbell.net

Does anyone know where I could get a keyboard for an Amiga 1000? Thanks, Owen

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Nostalgic note [Was: Re: Amiga 500, 2000 serial ports: The same?]

by mrdos＠swbell.net

>BUT, how many of those users left *AFTER* the Gateway/Amiga, Inc. made the >*BIG* announcement :^( From where I'm sitting thier announcement of a >NextGen Amiga did more to kill the platform than anything. > >Of course I'm *REAL* tempted to go into that brand new Gateway store a >couple miles from me and tell them I want to buy an Amiga 1200. What exactly did Gateway do to Amiga?

25 years

Adopt a scrapper and paper tape punches.

by mrdos＠swbell.net

>I like the idea... my only question is, Where does one find such a >scrapper? Is it as simple as checking the Yellow Pages under Scrapper >or metal recovery? How do you know they deal with computers without >calling? I'd hate to get off to a bad start with one... That's what I did. I called around and eventually someone told me where all the computers go around here (Fort Worth). I called the man and he was very nice. Told me to come on by. Just be very polite, and ask him when the best time to stop by would be. Look in the Yellow Pages under Metal Recycling and Junk Dealers. Sometimes local surplus places will have things too.

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Intel Intellec 8 computer?????

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<> Prompt48, small box with keypad two sockets and display. It could progra <> 8748, and do a passable in circuit emulation using the romless part. < <Yep, that was the name. They had Prompt series for most <of the single chip controllers and I think they had them <for the 8085 but I don't recall if the 8086 had one. Nope 8080, 8085, 8086 they had the SDK-8x. The SDKs were minimal systems with rom, keypad and display and a breadboard area. The difference between them and the PROMPT-48 was the PROMPT was in the Intel Blue case where the SDKs were bare board kits. Of all my SBCs I have no SDKs even though I've built several of each! I was that the other house from '79 through 83 (NEC) as product enigneer for micros. < By the way, I have a Prompt2920. I'm still looking <for any i2920 parts if anyone out there has one <( not to be confused with 2900 bit slice parts ). Ah, the signal processor chips. Likely the only one you'll find is the 2910 (I think was the number) uLAW codec. Allison

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Busting CRTs (was Re: Gold price was: Re: ebay feedback)

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- John B <dylanb(a)sympatico.ca> wrote: > >I just did that accidentally to a Mac SE. :-( I was trying to remove a > >cable from the innards and my hand slipped and wacked the board on the > >back of the CRT and skewed it far enough to bust that little tit. > > Do you know how many of those week lost at Queens Park?? One guy in my > department nailed CRTs 2 in one week... You never forget that "hissing" > sound that comes out of the unit... then the expression on the person > working on it. That was me. I heard this unmistakable noise and just sat there, a victim of my own carelessness. > The SEs also had those bad hard drives... the Principal > Secretary actually had a large screw driver next to his SE... Every time the > drive wouldn't spin up he would beat the crap out of it. Apple came down and > they agreed to replace all the flaky hard drives free immediately. I still have a Quantum PD1800S that has stiction. I paid $1100 for it new and they didn't consider it to be a warrantable problem. I'll never buy from them again. -ethan ===== Infinet has been sold. The domain is going away in February. Please send all replies to erd(a)iname.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com

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Free NCR tower in Miami FL.

by steverob＠hotoffice.com

On Monday, December 06, 1999 2:41 PM, Bill Yakowenko [SMTP:yakowenk@cs.unc.edu] wrote: > I've got a line on an NCR tower in Miami FL. If you are > interested in picking up or paying shipping, let me know. > Please e-mail to me directly, as I've temporarily unsubscribed > (can't handle the volume). > > Cheers, > Bill. I have conversed via email with the owner and he tells me there may be two available soon. He says one is a "NCR 400" and the other is a "NCR 450". Both have non-functional tape drives (don't know the problem) and are running SCO Unix. One of the systems has an accounting package on it but, apparently that's the only software. Does anyone know anything about these machines? If they are common PC's types, I won't bother but, if there is something unique about them, I might grab em'. Thanks for any info, Steve Robertson <steverob(a)hotoffice.com>

25 years

Busting CRTs (was Re: Gold price was: Re: ebay feedback)

by dylanb＠sympatico.ca

-----Original Message----- From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 1:36 PM Subject: Re: Busting CRTs (was Re: Gold price was: Re: ebay feedback) > > >--- John B <dylanb(a)sympatico.ca> wrote: > >> >I just did that accidentally to a Mac SE. :-( I was trying to remove a >> >cable from the innards and my hand slipped and wacked the board on the >> >back of the CRT and skewed it far enough to bust that little tit. >> >> Do you know how many of those week lost at Queens Park?? One guy in my >> department nailed CRTs 2 in one week... You never forget that "hissing" >> sound that comes out of the unit... then the expression on the person >> working on it. > >That was me. I heard this unmistakable noise and just sat there, a victim >of my own carelessness. > >> The SEs also had those bad hard drives... the Principal >> Secretary actually had a large screw driver next to his SE... Every time the >> drive wouldn't spin up he would beat the crap out of it. Apple came down and >> they agreed to replace all the flaky hard drives free immediately. > >I still have a Quantum PD1800S that has stiction. I paid $1100 for it new >and they didn't consider it to be a warrantable problem. I'll never buy from >them again. > Hmmm... Not a warranty problem?? They certainly changed their minds when I called them. It would not look good publicly for Quantum showing the Premier of Ontario beating the hell out of one to start it up. This brings back really funny memories. Every so often I'd get called out to in the hallway (did not do tech support but people still asked for help)... for help because someone had an unhappy SE. It would shock them to watch me come up to their Mac and punch it really hard. [you *had* to see their faces.]. Then. hear the drive spin up and walk away. Those quantum drives were awful. As back up policies were rarely adhered to it was my job to pull the drives apart and get the data out at any cost.... One day one the ministries lost some serious data to a dead quantum.. I took a new one off the shelf and used some of its parts to make the old one work (were talking replacing the motor). A rep and engineer from quantum came by to see what I was doing.... They weren't going to replace the new drive that I had cannibalized until they were told we had enough of their broken garbage.. john > >-ethan > > >===== >Infinet has been sold. The domain is going away in February. >Please send all replies to > > erd(a)iname.com >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. >Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com >

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test-drb December 1999