From: Claude.W <claudew(a)videotron.ca>
>
>A fast 16 bit CPU but a weird way of accessing memory made the thing
really
>slow IIRC
It had the potential of being a significant first 16 bitter. The muxing
of the bus
down to 8bits and really cost in speed.
>I think it was a costly & painfull venture for TI...
Ti was infamous for that.
>I am still looking for the expansion box / floppies for these...these
are
>rarer because so expensive back then...
Yes, but there was an aftermarket that was significant historically.
>I have accumulated too many and some will go in garbage at next
>inventory/cleaning...Ill keep the "inbox" ones...
NOTE: the video chip is extinct and same for a few other bits like the
GROMS so even if you strip them for the boards there are people
that might want them just for that.
Allison
>
>My 2 cents...
>
>Claude
>Canuk Computer Collector
>http://computer_collector.tripod.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <liste(a)artware.qc.ca>
>To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
>Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 9:09 PM
>Subject: TI-99/4A
>
>
>> I was given a TI-99/4A this week end. Has clean and has power and
teevee
>> cables. Only has the Number Madness cartridge, however. Haven't
>> turned it on yet, but i've played with the keyboard. It has a nice
>> tactile feel, especially compared to the dross that passes as a
keyboard
>> nowadays
>>
>> Is this thing compatible w/ "period" joysticks (like the atari's
used)?
>> Any other interesting info on this model?
>>
>> -Philip
>
I was given a TI-99/4A this week end. Has clean and has power and teevee
cables. Only has the Number Madness cartridge, however. Haven't
turned it on yet, but i've played with the keyboard. It has a nice
tactile feel, especially compared to the dross that passes as a keyboard
nowadays
Is this thing compatible w/ "period" joysticks (like the atari's used)?
Any other interesting info on this model?
-Philip
Considering all of the chat about SIMMs, this may be of interest.
- don
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This is a stack of stuff I have collecting dust. Prices are negotiable on
everything,
no REASONABLE offers will be ignored and I will guarantee anything you get
works. If
you want everything, its yours for the right price.
Memory
-----------------------
Stack of 30 pin simms
Stack of 4MB 72 pin simms
Stack of 486 Cache chips
Pair of 8MB (16MB) HP Apollo Memory
Pair of 32MB (64MB) IBM 60ns EDO SDRAM
stick of 64MB IBM ECC PC100
Hard Drives
-----------------------
Maxtot 3.6GB IDE HDD
Conner 200MB IDE HDD
Western Digital 4.2GB IDE HDD
Sound Cards
-----------------------
Diamond SonicImpact A3D PCI sound card
Aztech 16 bit ISA Sound Card
Systems
-----------------------
Unisys DX2-66 w/ 1MB Video, Sound, Floppy, NIC, HDD
Unisys DX2-66 w/ 1MB Video, Sound, Floppy, NIC, Scsi HDD, Scsi CDROM
Printers
-----------------------
HP DeskJet 400 Color Inkjet
HP DeskJet 500 Color Inkjet
Canon BJC-2000 Color Inkjet
HP color and B&W Catridges
Mouse
-----------------------
Genius NetMouse Serial
MicroInnovations 4D (2 wheels) Scroll Mouse PS/2
Memorex PS/2
PB PS/2
Misc
-----------------------
Dead (?) Ricoh Scsi CDRW
Dead (?) PII-400MHz CPUs
PB ISA FM Radio Card
NCR 53C400 ISA Scsi Card
Symbios SYM20403 ISA Scsi Card
Smart N Friendly CDROM Caddy
Umax Astra 1220P flatbed scanner
Zenith Serial Terminal w/ Keyboard
Pentium 75MHz CPU
Socket 370 <--> Slot 1 Adapter
ATX Backplates
Floppy adapters
Active EXT. Terminator
Cent<-->DB25 scsi cable
Centronics F <--> HD50 adapter
4 connector internal scsi cable
DB25M <--> DB25F cable
DB25M <--> DB25M cable
DB25M <--> DB9F Modem cable
15' CrossoverCable
50' Cat5 Cabling
3 ps/2 mouse adapters
10baseT T connectors
10baseT terminators
DB25F <--> DB9M adapter
serial port and parallel port internal ribbon cable
PS/2 mouse internal cable (5 pin)
Sun Sparc Lunchbox stand
PJC
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> >All kidding aside, the 4th amendment to our Constitution elucidates
> >our intrinsic right to be safe and secure in our persons and property
> >from unwarranted intrusion. In other words, a U.S. citizen is never
> >required to admit a government agent unless the agent has a warrant,
> >and while it may happen from time to time, I don't think that revenue
> >agents typically ask for and receive warrants to enter a private
residence.
>
> Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Obviously you've never dealt with the IRS!!!!! They may
> not "enter" your residence but they'll sure as hell padlock it shut until
> they get what THEY want! As far as they're concerned you have about the
> same rights that the Jews did in Nazi Germany!
This is no malarkey. An IRS data-entry error credited our tax payment to
someone else's account, and the IRS immediately froze our bank accounts. If
not for the kind intervention of our Congresswoman, Corrine Brown, we
probably would have had to close up shop.
Warrant? Who needs one?
Glen
0/0
At 10:45 AM 1/29/01 -0500, you Doug Q:
>> On a different tack, what's the group's thoughts about taxes etc? Should
>the
>> tax people visit my site they might think I'm making a living from buying
>> and selling machines and may want a little extra cash out of me despite
>the
>> fact I can probably prove it's impossible to make real money out of this
>AND
>> have a full time job and it really is a hobby....
>
>There is a long-established tradition here in America wherein we
>take great difference with a revenuer's (taxman's) attempt to
>enter the premises. The tradition involves guns and dead taxmen.
>
>All kidding aside, the 4th amendment to our Constitution elucidates
>our intrinsic right to be safe and secure in our persons and property
>from unwarranted intrusion. In other words, a U.S. citizen is never
>required to admit a government agent unless the agent has a warrant,
>and while it may happen from time to time, I don't think that revenue
>agents typically ask for and receive warrants to enter a private residence.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Obviously you've never dealt with the IRS!!!!! They may
not "enter" your residence but they'll sure as hell padlock it shut until
they get what THEY want! As far as they're concerned you have about the
same rights that the Jews did in Nazi Germany!
Joe
I have a small selection of WANG VS manuals that my
employer has decided to pitch. If you're looking for
one, drop me a note and I'll see if it's in the collection.
If there's interest, I'll take the time sometime to get a
list of titles together.
- Stacy
--
Stacy & Becky Morang, scmNOSPAM(a)ctel.net
In a message dated 1/29/01 9:23:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
liste(a)artware.qc.ca writes:
<< I was given a TI-99/4A this week end. Has clean and has power and teevee
cables. Only has the Number Madness cartridge, however. Haven't
turned it on yet, but i've played with the keyboard. It has a nice
tactile feel, especially compared to the dross that passes as a keyboard
nowadays
Is this thing compatible w/ "period" joysticks (like the atari's used)?
Any other interesting info on this model? >>
i think everyone has a ti computer. they were so popular when they could be
had for <$100. even though an atari joystick plugs in, it will not work
right. There is an adaptor that lets atari joysticks plug in, but not sure
what it did, probably just changed a few pinouts.
I seem to remember from the dark ages that the Atari cartridges could be
made using a standard EPROM and ZIF socket and that there was an inverter on
one leg of the EPROM. The guys that I knew who programmed EPROM's for
missiles also made Atari cartridge copies. Somewhere I have a cigar box
full of EPROM's of all of the common Atari 2600 games. I also have a piece
of circuit board with a ZIF socket on it.
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
I'm looking for the original list prices for the following equipment.
Does anybody happen to know any of them?
Platinum Apple IIe
Extened 80/comun text card
Apple 5.25" drive (I think that's all it was called. A Unidisk price
would be good enough)
Apple 5.25" interface card
Platinum Monitor IIe
AppleColor Composite Monitor IIe
Super Serial Card
Apple Mouse IIe w/interface
ImageWriter II
Thanks!
Tom
Applefritter
www.applefritter.com
Sure, you could kludge something together, but I have no interest in doing
so... Since I truly do intend to have a museum at some point, I wouldn't
consider a kludged-together Terak to be something of museum quality.. Hell,
if I just wanted it to work, I'd try to find out how standard the qbus
backplane in it is, and from there you could perhaps make it into a normal
11/23, which would be useful since it has an 8" floppy. Thanks for the
advice on the monitor and keyboard though, maybe it will help someone with
different goals : )
Will J
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Interesting question though -- "should the tax people visit my site they
might think I'm making a living from buying and selling machines" -- what
if the "site" in question is a web site? Can the revenooers use what they
see on a web site against the owner? :-)
-- Tony
At 10:45 AM 1/29/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> > On a different tack, what's the group's thoughts about taxes etc? Should
>the
> > tax people visit my site they might think I'm making a living from buying
> > and selling machines and may want a little extra cash out of me despite
>the
> > fact I can probably prove it's impossible to make real money out of this
>AND
> > have a full time job and it really is a hobby....
>
>There is a long-established tradition here in America wherein we
>take great difference with a revenuer's (taxman's) attempt to
>enter the premises. The tradition involves guns and dead taxmen.
>
>All kidding aside, the 4th amendment to our Constitution elucidates
>our intrinsic right to be safe and secure in our persons and property
>from unwarranted intrusion. In other words, a U.S. citizen is never
>required to admit a government agent unless the agent has a warrant,
>and while it may happen from time to time, I don't think that revenue
>agents typically ask for and receive warrants to enter a private residence.
>
>There are, however, some horror stories I could tell involving the
>U.S. Marshalls' Service who are able to perform warrantless searches,
>but they're looking for pirated software, not old iron.
>
>Regards,
>-dq
> On a different tack, what's the group's thoughts about taxes etc? Should
the
> tax people visit my site they might think I'm making a living from buying
> and selling machines and may want a little extra cash out of me despite
the
> fact I can probably prove it's impossible to make real money out of this
AND
> have a full time job and it really is a hobby....
There is a long-established tradition here in America wherein we
take great difference with a revenuer's (taxman's) attempt to
enter the premises. The tradition involves guns and dead taxmen.
All kidding aside, the 4th amendment to our Constitution elucidates
our intrinsic right to be safe and secure in our persons and property
>from unwarranted intrusion. In other words, a U.S. citizen is never
required to admit a government agent unless the agent has a warrant,
and while it may happen from time to time, I don't think that revenue
agents typically ask for and receive warrants to enter a private residence.
There are, however, some horror stories I could tell involving the
U.S. Marshalls' Service who are able to perform warrantless searches,
but they're looking for pirated software, not old iron.
Regards,
-dq
I have a couple DEC Maxines (5000/33's) and I am desperately trying to
install a virgin Ultrix 4.2 on them without any luck. Someone please help!
I have the CD media for Ultrix 4.2 using a scsi drive that works to install
on old Sparcstations so I am assuming it handles 512 sectoring.
The cdrom drive works fine. The Ultrix 4.2 cd looks fine (an original).
If you watch the boot messages on the machine it finds the cdrom drive on
rz6, so....
I rebooted and at the prom, I try
boot 3/rz6
and then
boot 3/rz6/vmunix
both without luck.. After each command the response is identical. The
cdrom spins up for a minute and then stops. No further prompts, action,
etc..
Anyone have any suggestions?
-Linc
I know that this is a shameless plug, but here are a few machines I'm
looking for:
Dynalogic Hyperion
Epson QX-10
Otrona Attache
Acorn A4 (w/ American voltage power supply)
Commodore Hyperion (Good luck, I know!)
____________________________________________________________
David Vohs, Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian.
Home page: http://www.geocities.com/netsurfer_x1/
Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, MPS-801.
"Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A, TI Speech Synthesizer.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3, Disto 512K RAM board.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
"Butterfly": Tandy Model 200, PDD, CCR-82
____________________________________________________________
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> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:07:39 +0000 (GMT)
> From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
> Subject: Re: Machines I'm looking for...
>
> Perhaps somebody could expain the aims of this hobby of ours.
> Is it to :
>
> Obtain as many machines as possible without caring what they are
Nope.
> Obtain as many of particular types of 'interesting' (to you) machines
Yup.
> Getting (again) the machine that you 'used as a kid' and
> enjoying those ancinet games again (say)
Not really, since I was doing that anyway with emulators.
> Getting machines that you dreamed of owning many years ago and could
> never aford back then
Definitely.
> Getting machines that have particular hardware (or software) features
> that you find interesting, whether or not you've ever heard of the
> machine before
Not originally, but that's happened over time once I've discovered that I
*could*. I'm supposed to be sticking to home machines but I'm deviating from
that path I think.
> Preserving a piece of computer history
100%
For me, at the end of the day cost isn't as important as saving a machine
>from whatever fate will befall it. Of course, I want that boxed Jupiter Ace
or Lisa 1 as cheaply as possible, but if I have the funds and something like
that becomes available then I'll buy it anyway. While its fab to have a
collection like this I still want to turn it into a proper museum and
educational facility once I get my head round the 'this might get stolen or
damaged and its the only one I've got' thoughts.
And find somewhere secure to put it all of course. There's bastards round
here who'll steal anything that isn't bolted down regardless of whether
there's anyone in the house because crims have more rights than victims, but
that's another story.
On a different tack, what's the group's thoughts about taxes etc? Should the
tax people visit my site they might think I'm making a living from buying
and selling machines and may want a little extra cash out of me despite the
fact I can probably prove it's impossible to make real money out of this AND
have a full time job and it really is a hobby....
--
Adrian Graham MCSE/ASE/MCP
C CAT Limited
Gubbins: http://www.ccat.co.uk (work)
<http://www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk> (home)
<http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk> (The Online Computer Museum)
0:OK, 0:1
If any of you are using HP plotters, I came into a large stash of the
long pens used on the Draftmaster 759x, Draftpro 757x, HP 758x and HP
7550 plotters. I've got sizes ranging from .25mm to .50mm and Black,
Blue and Green inks (Just a few Red...) Most are for paper or vellum
and are new in sealed (but well outdated) packages.
$.75 ea + actual postage.
Jim
Hello, all:
I know that I posted this once before, but I'll make the offer again. I
have a partially-working Datamaster for sale or trade. It consists of the
Datamaster unit, lots of spare parts (including power supply, keyboard, and
miscellaneous boards) and a few disks. There are no manuals or other
paperwork.
There's only one condition: pick-up only in northeastern Nassau County, New
York (Long Island). This is large and very heavy, so I'm not inclined to
ship it.
I also have a few random items available that are shippable: Two 3Com PCI
network cards (spares), a Zilog Z8 ICE/evaluation board, and NuBus graphics
card and TokenRing cards.
Anyone interested, contact me off list. Thanks.
Rich
ClubWin! Group 1
Collector of Classic Computers
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
/*****************************************/
>Anybody have any comments about this machine? How was the screen >clarity?
Well, as far as the screen goes, it's not anything to write home about, but
I'm sure that there are worse looking screens out there.
Then again, that could be just mine.
Hope this helps.
____________________________________________________________
David Vohs, Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian.
Home page: http://www.geocities.com/netsurfer_x1/
Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, MPS-801.
"Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A, TI Speech Synthesizer.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3, Disto 512K RAM board.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
"Butterfly": Tandy Model 200, PDD, CCR-82
____________________________________________________________
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> > >
> > > On the other hand, I see nothing wrong with spending money
> > on a machine
> > > if you will then enjoy programming/using/repairing it. I
> > don't regard
> > > that as not 'sporting'.
> >
> > It's like the difference between the quaterback of the team
> > saying he won the superblow because he was on the field and
> > the owner saying he won the game because he paid the players
> > to do it.
>
>
> Perhaps somebody could expain the aims of this hobby of ours. Is it to :
>
> Obtain as many machines as possible without caring what they are
Probably not.
> Obtain as many of particular types of 'interesting' (to you) machines
Almost certainly.
> Getting (again) the machine that you 'used as a kid' and enjoying those
> ancinet games again (say)
Still got the machine I learned to program on (a Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2A).
Still works, too :-)
> Getting machines that you dreamed of owning many years ago and could
> never aford back then
Don't think that applies to me.
> Getting machines that have particular hardware (or software) features
> that you find interesting, whether or not you've ever heard of the
> machine before
Hmm... Depends on whether I've got enough place to store the thing.
> Preserving a piece of computer history
Yes.
> Programming a machine that is really simple enough to fully understand
Definetly.
> Repairing a machine that's built from parts you can get and understand
When it breaks :-)
> Learning about the operation of a computer by understanding a processor
> at gate level
Yup.
> I guess for me it's many of the above and more besides.
Same here.
> OK, I know most of us (myself included) can't afford to spend as much
> money as we'd like on this hobby, and we'd love it if the machines were
> free... However, it wouldn't bother me to spend say \pounds 100.00 on a
> machine of particular interest to me, knowing that I would get at least
> that much enjoyment/education from programming it, repairing it, learning
> about it, etc. And I don't thing that's against the aims of the hobby.
I wouldn't mind spending about ?50 on a machine if it was in decent (read:
working) condition. I've successfully restored a reel to reel tape deck and
I'm going to get myself a few MOS KIM-1s (one to keep going, the rest become
parts donors if need be) and keep at least one running. I'm going to test
and reform/replace the capacitors if necessary, and make sure the CPU/clock
circuits/LED display/keyboard still work. And if the keyboard fails I'll get
myself a Protolab membrane keypad kit and build a new one!
--
Phil.
http://www.philpem.f9.co.uk/
philpem(a)bigfoot.com
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