test-drb November 2001

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by KenzieM＠sympatico.ca

I saw one of these yesterday. It looks like a monitor with floppy drive in the bottom, at the back was a plug for the power and another labelled video. I could not see anyplace for a keyboard to be attached. Does anyone know anything about this machine? Collector of Vintage Computers (www.ncf.ca/~ba600)

22 years, 9 months

I need an RM03...

by DSEAGRAV＠toad.xkl.com

I need an RM03, preferrably within sane driving distance of Peoria, IL. Having a KS10 as a paperweight is absolutely no fun. I can trade PDP-11 stuff for one, I have all sorts of 11 kit that I'd be more than willing to trade for KS10 stuff. Also, if anyone has the 120V-AC plug that goes in a TM02, I am short one of those as well - I have the 220 volt version (but the rest of the drive is all 120 volt parts; Odd!) Basically, I'm sick of using the KS10 as just emulation validation and I want to get it running. ^_^ -------

22 years, 10 months

Collections vs. accumulations, was Re: How many collectors?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> > > Does anyone know what sort of machine is in the car's > > > onboard controller? A few pictures I've found make them > > > look like PC104's. These machines are hitting zero value > > > quickly and may not last 10 years unless picked up now. > > > > What car? They don't all use the same controllers, you know... > > Want a fuel injection "brain" from a 1968 VW Squareback? Had Bosch come up with EFI already by 1968? Every VW (and Audi & MB, etc) of that vintage that I've seen used CIS, which was a purely mechanical system. I have seen a 1969 Audi Super 90 (wagon) that had an aftermarket Capacitative Discharge Ignition (CDI) System... by 1974, Audis had those as stock, while CIS was still 1 year off... My 1986 Audi 5000 CS Turbo Quattro uses a Motorola 6802-based controller... very simple to upgrade, too.... ;-) -dq

22 years, 11 months

Punch cards, punch & mag tapes (Toronto)

by mhstein＠usa.net

Sorry, a little overwhelmed by all this at the moment; will get back to ya. Ethan, AIM65 stuff is ready to go. John, still waiting to hear what you need for the Cromemcos. Will be off 'Net till Monday. mike ---------------Original Message----------------- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:32:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Punch cards, punch & mag tapes (Toronto) - --- "John R. Keys Jr." <jrkeys(a)concentric.net> wrote: > Has anyone claimed these yet ? If not I will take them. I tried to. Haven't heard back. Don't know who the lucky winner is, but I suspect several people expressed interest. - -ethan

22 years, 11 months

Stan Veit's History of the PC Books - Blow Out - $4 Shipped!

by MTPro＠aol.com

I have a number of brand new copies I'd like to move out. This is a super deal just for classiccmp subscribers. Please e-mail me! For more info on the book, see: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1289515294 Best, David David Greelish Classic Computing www.classiccomputing.com "classiccomputing" on eBay

22 years, 11 months

Heath/Zenith stuff

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

------Original Message------ From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com> --- Bill Gunshannon <bill(a)cs.scranton.edu> wrote: > Your thinking of the Heath H11 which was in fact an LSI-11/02. But it had It shipped as an LSI-11/03 CPU and heath made memory and IO. My H-11 came with a KDF-11 CPU (11/23), but I don't know if it was shipped that way or if my boss (who bought it new) upgraded it himself. Yep, never shipped with 11/23 (KDF-11A). It was discontinued by then if anything. I have a couple of the Heath serial cards (one unsoldered!), the H-27 disk controller, the 8" floppies and a pile of misc DEC cards (memory, BDV-11 boot card, etc). The heath seriial card was a fairly flexible card copared to the usual DEC DL-11. to debug the H-27 (he never used it). Except for the monsterous holes he blew in the side to mount additional fans, and the holes in the front he added for external console baud rate switches, it resembles its original form once again. The fans and switches were a common mod and handy too. Allison __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

22 years, 11 months

Wanted: Tiger Learning Computer

by vcf＠vintage.org

I'm wanting to buy a Tiger Learning Computer from anyone who may have one they don't want. This was the kid computer released during Christmas of 1996 but only sold in limited numbers in the JC Penney 1996 Christmas catalog. It was Apple ][ compatible--it basically had enhanced Apple //e ROMs and used Flash ROM cards as an emulated Disk ][ drive. It had Appleworks built-in. Very nifty. I'm also open to trades. Any got one? This is my biggest want currently. :) Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

22 years, 11 months

NEW BOUNTY ADDED! (Software and manual bounties $$$)

by vcf＠vintage.org

I'm adding the following bounty to my list below: Xsoft TabWorks (any version though 1.0 is preferred) ($50) Xsoft is/was a division of Xerox. TabWorks was a tab pallet windows interface that ran on Windows 3.0. It was sold to Compaq and then to Citadel. --- I am putting up the following bounties for these software and manuals: Adobe After Effects 3.x ($30) Macromedia Sound Edit 16 1.0 ($30) Macromedia Final Cut ($30) Macromedia Freehand 5.0 ($30) GO PenPoint manual (copyright 1992) ($15) Also: MacWeek August 7, 1995 ($5) I need original copies of each, disks and manuals. If you've got them, or can find them, the bounty amount is yours (upon receipt and verification, shipping to be paid by me). Please reply directly to me: <sellam(a)vintage.org>. Thanks! Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

23 years

AM radio music

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> If I remember correctly, there was a machine code program > printed once to play "music" with a ZX80 using this method! Older. Dr. Dobb's Journal, Issue #2... 8080 code, played Daisy and something else, modulating the S-100 INT signal. -dq

23 years

Is it a Lisa or Mac XL?!

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Scrapping them off the books for tax purposes, in all likelyhood. We > used to have to physically destroy our COMBOARDs before we could write > them off. If we were ever audited and happened to have product that > was logged as scrap, but hadn't been, we would have been in a world > of hurt from either the County Tax officials or perhaps the IRS. > > It sucks, but if you scrap hardware, you have to render it useless. IMHO, all you need to do is ensure there remains no evidence to the contrary... admittedly, it might get very difficult to have 10,000 units disappear with a wink and a handshake... -dq

23 years

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