I had an absolute blinder of a weekend. Total finds from one market and one
boot sale were:
Boxed BBC Master 128
Boxed Grandstand 3600 pong
Boxed Spectrum +2A (not a Currys or Dixons pack)
Boxed Acetronic MPU1000 pong with mint quality boxed games
Boxed Amstrad 6128+ with boxed monitor
Commodore 128
Part boxed Dragon32 (handy, I'd just found a PSU the day before :)
and the jewel in the pile
Unused boxed Commodore P500 with manual and video lead. It's still in its
Commodore bag, although one of the polys has had some damage. I'm quite
chuffed with that to say the least, particularly since the serial number is
only #00161!
Last weekend I got my paws on:
Grandstand-badged Fairchild Channel F II
Boxed Grandstand 5000 pong
Boxed almost unused Grandstand SD070 pong
Unopened Colecovision Expansion #1
Boxed Astro Wars tabletop
2 Boxed Atari 2600s with a stack of carts
Half a dozen Vic-20 carts
a Super Famicom clone called the Micro Genius IQ501
and a battered Issue 2 Spectrum in a DK'Tronics keyboard enclosure.
Pix are on http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk as always, although yesterday's
stuff won't be uploaded till tonight.
a
Hello everyone, id like to announce a new project im starting, The
ClassicMag project. The goal of this project is to preserve classic
computing and gaming magazines for extinction. Most of us classic collectors
love to have magazines for the systems we collect as, in the past the
provided an immense resource for reviews, news, insights and programs. The
goal of this project will be to preserve old out of print magazine issues in
a PDF format. These will be scanned complete issues with advertisements let
in, as they are as interesting and have just as much nostalgia value. Our
web site is currently up at http://www.classicmag.net there's not a lot
there as of yet but with everyone's help I hope to fill it soon. I've got a
tremendous amount of space to be able to host these files. What I'm looking
for is help from the community, if you have old issues, anything to do with
computers or video gaming, please consider scanning them in getting them to
us. If you can't put them in pdf form, no problem we can work out a way for
you to get them images to us and we will get them in pdf form. I have a
small list of magazines on the site now for some different systems, if you
know of any I don't have listed please email with the details. I want this
to be as complete as possible. I'm going to try and stay with mags published
before 1995. I don't want to run into a lot of copyright issues. As always
if a mag is on our site and the publisher, if there still around, wishes it
not be there we will take it down, but hope they consider this project
worthwhile and let us keep them there.
I believe this will be a great resource for everyone to be able to get a
hold of some mags that are gone, but not forgotten. If you want to help with
this project please email me at
jim(a)classicmag.net . I look forward to hearing from people.
Thanks
Jim Oaks
http://www.classicmag.net
Smart. And $48 doesn't seem like a bad price for that amount of kit!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Ford [mailto:mikeford@socal.rr.com]
> Sent: 10 August 2000 20:49
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: RE: Apple IIc+ boot disk for DOS3.3
>
>
> >> also a Apple Color RGB monitor that worked specifically with
> >> the Apple IIgs and I think the IIc/c+.
> >
> >Ta for that - I need to find one of those for the museum
> then :) It just
> >looks like a Mac monitor in some of the ][GS pix I've seen.
>
> Here is an ad with pics and a model number, note there may be
> more than one
> model number of IIgs compatible color monitor.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=399648903
>
>
The specific one for the c and c+ was the cute little 12" one wasn't it?
Came with a funky stand to hover it over the machine. I'll get one
eventually; I've always been surprised where most of my Apple stuff comes
from!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Hildebrand [mailto:ghldbrd@ccp.com]
> Sent: 10 August 2000 20:41
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Apple IIc+ boot disk for DOS3.3
>
>
> Hello Adrian
>
> On 10-Aug-00, you wrote:
>
> > Mike typed thusly:
> >
> >> There was
> >> also a Apple Color RGB monitor that worked specifically with
> >> the Apple IIgs and I think the IIc/c+.
> >
> > Ta for that - I need to find one of those for the museum
> then :) It just
> > looks like a Mac monitor in some of the ][GS pix I've seen.
>
> I got the official apple monitor with my IIc+, and it is
> composite vidoe
> only . . .
>
> Regards
> --
> Gary Hildebrand
> Box 6184
> St. Joseph, MO 64506-0184
>
> 816-662-2612
> or
>
> ghldbrd(a)ccp.com
>
A few weeks ago our local car boot sale started up again for the summer. After
a couple of weeks of singularly unhackish sales, I finally struck...
Yesterday I spent a total of L29 and one pair of trousers, and got:
Four books (two on electronics, one on geography, and "Magnetic Amplifiers and
Saturable Reactors" by M G Say)
A BBC Master in the compact case, complete with 3.25 inch dual disk drive and
Microvitec Cub monitor
And the real find: New (I'm told never used), in original box, a Penman.
Fun....
Philip.
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--- Sellam Ismail wrote:
> Sorry to litter the list with a video game question, but I just picked up an
> Action Max game system which is complete minus the instructions, and I'm
> wondering where you plug in the RCA cables on the VCR. Anyone familiar with
> this thing?
I've got one in my collection and was wondering the same thing when I got
it (a couple years ago :)
--- end of quote ---
As far as I can tell, the RCA's simply go to the VCR audio-out jacks so the video's sound can go through the console (and you can then adjust the volume and stereo using the console's controls). Seems to work fine this way, but I probably need to mess with the TV brightness some more...it's finicky about sensing the gun even when I hold the barrel 3 inches from the screen. Also had to take the gun apart and file down all the little plastic boogers (from where it came out of the mold) so the trigger wouldn't stick.
-- MB
At the weekend I got a MicroVax 3300 and a VaxStation II.
Badly the keyboard and monitor are lost but I believe a DEC Rainbow100 is a good terminal .
Or - I use OS/2 with a lot of comports- is there a terminalprogramm for os/2 with a good VT100 emulation ?
So I'll try to give the a new live but with VMS I believe I have no understood.
There is no diskdrive connected to the 2 vaxes but I have a lot of tapes, all (It looks so because there are so
much) manuals and some cd's.
I must look what I got and make a survey . First I make a hardware summary looking what modules , drives
and ports are there.
If someone can give me a shoot where to start I will be glad .
Fritz Chwolka
/collecting old computers just for fun\
Hey,
Someone saw my Lisa page and emailed me the following. I told him I'm pass it on to the list. Any ideas for this fellow? (I will fwd, or email him directly: adamg(a)trideja.com, Adam Goolevitch.)
Thanks,
-- MB
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>Hi, I have an Apple Lisa 2/10. I am having a problem with the internal
>Widget drive. When the drive is spinning, it makes a horrible noise -
>like the bearings are shot or something? It it is a rattly-grindy sound.
>Any ideas as to how to fix this?
The Retro Computing Society of Rhode Island will be holding a big flea
market to help us make room in our crowded millspace in Providence, Rhode
Island. It will be held during our September Open House on the 16th of the
month (third Saturday), from roughly 11am to 4pm. If you are going to be
around, stop by for a selection of very nicely priced computers - many
classic micros (sorry, no Altairs or Imsais!), terminals, printers, maybe
a workstation or two, cables, books, all sorts of things you never knew
you needed to have. Conditions vary from working and good to dead and
(half) buried.
Proceeds will of course go to various RCS/RI projects (electrical
upgrade, shelves, rent).
For directions, see our sight at www.osfn.org/rcs.
And of course, there will be the usual amount of RCS/RI fun and geekiness.
Show up early, Merle.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org
