Heinz Wolter wrote:
> Glen Goodwin wrote :
> > > I talked to Ken this afternoon.
> > > He needs 3-4K to cover the back rent on the storage
> > > and is looking for someone to take all this stuff and
> > > sell it on eBay for him. He thinks it's worth $100000
> >
> > Well, hey, if a CoCo is worth $2500 . . .
>
> We'll if there's a complete working PDP-10 (KL10), with
> disks, it might have a collector value of 20-30K$US,
> but you'd have to search carefully to find a rich buyer...
I know of three in private hands, and I think they were
each acquired at not cost.
> Now a PDP-1 would certainly be worth 100KUS$,
> as might a KA10 or KI10. If all that was needed to
> cover back-rent was 3-4KUS$, then a couple of PDP-8s
> or early PDP-11s should do the trick.
The PDP-1, working, complete, might well be worth US$10K,
but it's unlikely he's got one. Probably a boatload of
Vaxen & -11 stuff. Or maybe even Alpha.
> There are collectors out there like Mr. Allen paying
> big dollars for not so rare machines...I've even heard
> of unscrupulous "museum" collectors selling off machines
> that were donated to so called ~not-for-profit~ organizations.
> I don't think paying the rent is a bad idea, but selling off
> donated valuable items for huge personal profit is wrong,
> unless of course, you paid for or removed the machines,
> made no misrepresentations, and it's a legitimate business.
The Bostom Computer Museum was trying to support itself by
selling modules from systems that weren't complete.
> Still no matter what the source, it would bet better for these
> machines to find good homes (even in eccentric millionaire's
> collections) than to end up in the scrap heap or raped for their
> gold plating.
On this, we agree...
> I wonder what item Al K. is looking for that could be worth
> any good part of 100KUS$, or 3KUS$ ;)
I don't think anything that expensive is in Al's budget...
Though wouldn't we all love to have a sugardaddy like that!
-dq
Hello.
I just begin the development of the Univac I simulator. By the moment
I am doing one simple prototype of the CPU with all the Instruction Set
and the Registers, plus ten simulated Uniservos in form of ten plain
ascii files. I don't try to reproduce by the moment the timings or
the exact cycle of the data and/or instructions along the system.
In a later issue I have the intention to convert the simulator in
one Bob Supnik's Simh compatible.
And, finally, I shall try to develop one GUI for the Sim, and here
is where I need some kind of help. All the photographs I have are
in black and white, and I need some help about the real color of the
Univac I components. I am working actually with the Supervisory
Control (the Huge Console of the Univac I) and I need to know if
somebody knows its exact colors: that is, of the Metallic components,
and the light and blinking colors too.
All help should be agreed.
Thanks and Best Regards
Sergio Pedraja
Hello all,
Cleanout time again... I have the following ISA cards available for cost of
postage only. These cards were part of a lot I picked up just for the two
Compaticard II cards that were in the pile :-).
Let me know what you want. In fairness to international and digest readers,
if I get more offers than I have of a certain card, then I will throw names
into a hat and pick.
These should be fairly cheap to ship, as they all are light...
Also, they are UNTESTED, and given to you AS-IS...
Here we go:
Boards from Zenith Z-150
- CPU Board 85-2889-1 -- 8088, keyboard port, ROMs, etc
- Disk Controller Board 85-2890-1 -- 2 WD 8250, i8272, external ports
- Memory Board 85-2891-1 -- 5 banks of 9 4164 chips
- Video Board 85-2945-1 -- 6845, 2732 ROM, D9 and RCA outputs
- 8-slot backplane board 85-2964-1 -- 8 8-bit ISA slots, power connector
Qty. 3 8-bit ISA VGA cards -- Paradise chipset, 8 MB81464-12 memory chips
Qty. 1 8-bit ISA VGA card, renaissance chipset, 8 D41464C-10 memory chips
Qty. 3 8-bit Seagate ISA cards, SCSI??, EPROM marked Seagate ST01/02 BIOS,
TI CF61891FN, 50-pin header
Qty. 1 8-bit ISA card, marked "UPS Monitoring Board, Copyright 89 APCC"
Switch settings silkscreened on board
Qty. 2 8-bit ISA cards, marked "ASYNC CARD 1501485APS" -- INS 8250, 25-pin
male connector
Qty. 1 8-bit Everex ISA card, I believe SCSI controller -- PWA-00081-0002
EV-833, 50-pin header, 62-pin high-density connector out the back, 8085AP-2,
8257C, 6116, 27C64, TI CF60128N, Everex custom chip
Qty. 1 16-bit ISA SCSI card, Adaptec AHA-1542B, w/ 50-pin ribbon cable
Qty. 1 16-bit full-length ISA SCSI card, board marked AHA-1542A, custom chip
marked AHA-1540A -- No floppy connector, 50-pin SCSI connector, no connector
out the back. -- 50-pin header has some bent pins.
Qty. 4 8-bit 3/4 length ISA floppy controller -- 37-pin D connector out the
back, 34-pin edge connector along the front edge of the card. No obvious
manufacturer's markings. Three have the i8272 chip, one has an NEC 765.
Qty. 6 8-bit 1/2 length ISA floppy controller card. One uses the NEC 765,
Two use the Zilog Z0765A08PSC, and three use the i8272. All have no
connector out the back, and a 34-pin edge connector along the front edge of
the card. One is marked "Kouwell KF-503C"
"They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin
If you are interested in any items let me know and I'll forward you an image of the part.
Here's the list:
IBM PS/2 LX 40 Laptop (complete, including powersupply, battery and modem - Needs CMOS battery replaced)
Compaq LTE 286 Laptop parts:
-Battery pack
-Floppy drive
-Harddrive
-Motherboard
-Memory expansion card
Compaq LTE 386 s/20 Laptop parts:
-Battery pack
-Floppy drive
-Harddrive
-Modem
-Power supply board (?)
Apple Computers:
* Power Macintosh 6100/66
DOS Compatible
6100 DOS compatible. Card includes a 66 MHz 486DX2 CPU, SVGA output, and a single SIMM slot supporting up to 32 MB RAM
* Apple Desktob Bus Mouse II
* Assorted apple cables
One monitor/printer cable
One 8-pin keyboard (?) cable
* Apple OneScanner
w/ 2 SCSI Ports + cable
* Apple Multiple Scan 15 Display
15" monitor w/15-pin plug
* Two Apple Keyboard II units
* Apple ImageWriter II
Color Printer with Paper Tray Feeder
MONITORS/Serial Terminals:
* Wyse technologies Monitor/terminal w/parallell/phone line ports (15")
* NCD Monitor/Terminal w/parallell/thin/serial ports(15"-color)
* Seiko Instruments 15" Monitor (color)
I also have the following motherboards available:
* Compaq Motherboard for 486 processor w/4 Slot ISA Riser board and
4 72-pin memory bays
(Copyright 1992, 93,94)
Built in Mouse, keyboard, graphics card, and paralell ports
Board # 03433-001
* Dual processor motherboard for 486 and 386 processors w/8 ISA Slots
Unknown board brand, copyright 1992
8 30-pin SIMM memory bays
AMI BIOS // American Megatrends/Symphony chips
S/N 58000
* Dual processor motherboard for 386 and 286 (?) processors w/8 ISA Slots Unknown board brand, copyright 1986-1990
8 30-pin SIMM memory bays
AMI BIOS // American Megatrends/Symphony/Twinhead chips
FM-SC386
* DELL Computer Corp. motherboard for 486 processor w/3 Slot ISA Riser board and 4 72-pin memory bays,copyright 1991
Built in Mouse, keyboard, graphics card, and paralell ports
16577 A7 0141 WS(?)
* Micronics Computers Inc. Dual processor motherboard for 486 and 386 (?) processors w/8 ISA slots and 8 30-pin SIMM memory bays
Phoenix BIOS // Intel Copyright 1977 /CHIPS on-board chips
* Micronics Computers Inc. (??) Dual processor motherboard for two 486 processors w/8 ISA slots and 4 72-pin memory bays and cache slot
Copyright 1993
Phoenix BIOS // FLASH/CHIPS/Micronics on-board chips
* Dtk Dual processor motherboard for 386 and 286 (?) processors w/8 assorted length ISA slots
Copyright 1987 Dallas/Texas Instruments/Mitsubish/Citizen/VLSI on- board chips
(All boards are working as far as I know, they were pulled out of working computers)
I also have several 5.25" floppy drives (TEAC, EPSON, Others)
I have older Miniscribe and Epson harddrives
I have one tower and two boxes w/power supply ready for assembly
Also, several older graphics cards, IDE expansion cards, SCSI cards, serial port cards, and many other older components of the like.
Power supply. Numerous sizes and options
Additionally, I have several sets of 30-PIN SIMM Memory cards and one Cache (256K) card
Please let me know if you or anyone else you know is interested in acquiring any of this hardware.
Feel free to email me for further info.
Sincerely,
H. Sven Fernandez
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Make a difference, help support the relief efforts in the U.S.
http://clubs.lycos.com/live/events/september11.asp
>Does any on know what eBay gets for his folly?
When it doesn't sell, he will be able to reprice it and relist for free,
if it doesn't sell the 2nd time, he will owe ebay $3.30
Not a bad loss to test the waters for a sucker
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
What is it?
It says Mentor Graphics Storage Unit 6000 on the front panel
HP C2213d....
class 1 laser...
on the back
I was told it was an external SCSI drive.
Collector of Vintage Computers (www.ncf.ca/~ba600)
Hello, all:
Someone from the Netherlands contacted me about obtaining images of the
LPS11 test tapes. Before I go through the trouble of sending the tapes
overseas, does anyone on the list have images of the tapes already prepared?
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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Yes !!
Thanks very much, Jerome.
Booting RT-11FB and then running ADVENT still produces
the "Insufficient memory" fatal error.
However, VBGEXE works fine !
After the "Welcome to Adventure!! Would you like instructions?"
and entering 'YES", it goes: Somewhere nearby is Colossal Cave,
etc.
This means that I am now going to play Adventure. This has a
serious drawback on the expansion of my website ...
I am playing it on my "homebrew-PDP" with the BLINKENLIGHTS on!!
On my website this project (early phase) has a separate link.
BTW. What is VBGEXE, what do the letters stand for?
Thanks again,
Henk.
> -----Original Message-----
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On Oct 23, 14:35, John Foust wrote:
> At 12:22 PM 10/23/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >Is there an assumption that spam address harvesters would be incapable
of
> >replacing all occurences of 'DOT' with '.' and 'AT' with '@' ?
>
> If I were writing an e-mail harvester, I'm sure
> I'd have quite an extensive subroutine that looked
> for known patterns of spam-avoidance, and how to
> undo them. I can't fathom why otherwise smart people
> assume that other smart but nasty people won't think
> of the same things they did, and be able to undo them.
I'm sure you could/would -- but I'm also sure a lot don't. So trivial
obfuscations probbly work to some extent, more especially in the context of
trawling web pages, where there is no mandatory header labelled "From:" or
whatever.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
