I was contacted by a person in charge of liquidating the assets of an old school. They recently purchesed an old school building for other purposes, and found what they describe as a large amount of old microcomputers in storage there. They don't want them, and want to take offers for them. It sounds like they will take a "token donation" for a system or systems or maybe the whole lot.
All I know at this point is that most of the systems are Commodore Pet, Commodore superPet, and TRS-80. I'd be suprised if there wasn't a bunch of apples there too, and lord knows what else. Location is Arizona.
So far, they have asked that I be a single point of contact so they don't get innundated with calls. If anyone is interested, Please email me asap or they will wind up on the junk heap.
Most importantly, are any interested list members in AZ (brisbane I think was the city) and could thus do a look-see, and maybe organize shipping, etc?
Let me know!
Jay West
No, Pics online. I have to get a camera for that or maybe borrow one. It would be interesting to line all of them
up and photograph them.
Allison
------Original Message------
From: "James B. DiGriz" <jbdigriz(a)dragonsweb.org>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Sent: April 13, 2001 3:08:56 AM GMT
Subject: Re: Technico (Re: TI Minicomputer?)
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, ajp166 wrote:
> >On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Eric Chomko wrote:
> >
> >> A company called 'Technico' put out a TI 9900-based single board mirco
> back in
> >> the
> >> late 70s before TI had the 99/4. I rememebr building one for a class
> project in
> >> college. In fact, I got one in the attic that I need to frag out of of
> these days
>
>
> I have one and it's operational. Bought is back in '77.
>
> Allison
>
Do you happen to have a picture of it online anywhere, Allison?
jbdigriz
I'm traveling up to Denver from Houston soon and wanted to see if
anyone knew of some places to check out for old systems while I
was there? What are the good thrift store chains there? Any other
places?
Thanks.
-----
David Williams - Computer Packrat
"When the mind is free of any thought or judgement,
then and only then can we know things as they are."
dlw(a)trailingedge.com
http://www.trailingedge.com
Just wondering. How many Mhz or MIPS
do you need to display dancing hamsters?
What's the best way to get this to work using only
a 7-segment LED for the display and telegraph sounder
for sound output? My boss wants
an estimate of how long it will take to implement
this with a 4 bit CPU for under $1.
Thanks very much in advance.
;)
-- Ross
At some point I will need to replace my old monitor
that is growing dim and blurry. I hope to replace it
with a new contemporary monitor that is not too expensive.
It will need to be multisync, sync on green, and have
BNC input.
Does anyone have experience with anything along that
line? I know Iiyama has a couple models: Pro 410 and Pro 510.
Sony is a bit too expensive. Any other brands and models?
-Bill
For me to build it as a class project I'd have been the professor. I'd been out of school for a while by then.
No, I wanted a 9900 based machine to see what was on the non intel track back then. My 9900, ELF, 6800d1 and SC/MP all came from that effort back then. I've had them since before 1979.
Allison
------Original Message------
From: Eric Chomko <chomko(a)greenbelt.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Sent: April 13, 2001 4:07:02 AM GMT
Subject: Re: Technico (Re: TI Minicomputer?)
Did you build it for a class project? Techinco was based out of Columbia, MD.
Eric
ajp166 wrote:
> From: James B. DiGriz <jbdigriz(a)dragonsweb.org>
>
> >On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Eric Chomko wrote:
> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> A company called 'Technico' put out a TI 9900-based single board mirco
> back in
> >> the
> >> late 70s before TI had the 99/4. I rememebr building one for a class
> project in
> >> college. In fact, I got one in the attic that I need to frag out of of
> these days
>
> I have one and it's operational. Bought is back in '77.
>
> Allison
Maybe it'll work twice -- I'll give it a try!
I have an original power cord that was wired into an Altair 8800. I don't
really _want_ to use it to hang a potted plant from a hook in my family
room, but it looks like I'll have to.
Unless, of course, some generous soul would be so kind as to give me the
parts I'm missing to restore my power cord to its former complete Altair
greatness.
:-)
-- Tony
At 12:21 AM 4/13/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Please do accept our apology.
>
>I was hoping for a Protect Board for my System/36 and one was offered by a
>generous list member.
>
>In hopes of keeping this system whole, I withdraw my offer of free
>components.
>
>Sincere apologies to anyone concerned.
>
>Best wishes to all,
>
>The Technoid
>
>--
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>Jeffrey S. Worley
>President
>Complete Computer Services, Inc.
>30 Greenwood Rd.
>Asheville, NC 28803
>828-277-5959
>Visit our website at HTTP://www.Real-Techs.com
>THETechnoid(a)home.com
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(Crossposted to CLASSICCMP and the milsurplus list)
My mate and I will be visiting friends in Tucson around the end of May.
While there, I aim to do some scrounging!
I'm less interested in computer hardware (with one notable exception --
specifically, an Intermec bar-code label printer, direct thermal species)
than I am in test equipment and radio hardware, both mil-surplus and
commercial. In fact, I have need of a good source for used aircraft-type
circuit breakers (the pop-button type, both DC and AC) at this time.
Suggestions for scrounge stops in the Tucson/Phoenix area would be
appreciated. Please keep in mind that I'll only have one day to do this.
Thanks much.
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K)
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates to me that it would be
superior to what I have now..." (Gym Z. Quirk, aka Taki Kogoma).
