test-drb May 2001

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642 discussions

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

On Wed, 23 May 2001 10:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> writes: > The seller is a Goodwill picker; a middle-man; at best an > opportunist; at worst a scoundrel. He's selling direct from a > Goodwill shelf in a store somewhere, to you. > > I think this aspect is important to consider in this case. You're looking at the glass as half empty. There are at least three major aspects which you have *not* considered: 1. He came to us, first. 2. Once he found out it was valuable, he didn't take it to E-Bay. 3. Everyone on this list had a fair shot at it. Opportunist? Maybe-- he got lucky and wanted to ca$h in. Good for him. Is that such a crime? If you had a way to sell 'lucky breaks', you'd have folks beating a path to your door. Scoundrel? Only if he misrepresents himself or the merchandise; on this forum, it is best to give him the benefit of the doubt. Alot more than $0.02 but I think it needed saying . . . ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

23 years, 7 months

OT - Nigerian Pigeon Drop Scam

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

On Wed, 23 May 2001 07:45:00 -0700 (PDT) Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> writes: > Nigeria is like the scam capital of the world. I have no idea why. > Lax laws? Government complicity? A weakened sense of morals? :) Try All of the Above. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

23 years, 7 months

Ha Ha Virus is back

by elecdata＠kcinter.net

Evening folks, I just received this evening and it was sent at 7:56pm the Ha Ha Virus is back! I received it from the list this is the heading: Subject: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story! Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 22:56:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Hahaha <hahaha(a)sexyfun.net> Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org To: undisclosed-recipients: Bill Claussen elecdata1

23 years, 7 months

ID computer

by halarewich＠look.ca

at the local salvation army today came across a computer/wordprosser unit made by Cannon called the Cannon Cat any info on this would be most grateful Chris -- # Netscape POP3 State File # This is a generated file! Do not edit.

23 years, 7 months

OT electron microscope rescue Fwd: TEM-used Philips 301

by jfoust＠threedee.com

>Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 14:24:10 -0400 >From: Debbie Lietz <dlietz(a)trentu.ca> >Subject: TEM-used Philips 301 >X-Sender: dlietz(a)mail.trentu.ca >To: Microscopy(a)sparc5.microscopy.com >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >The Microscopy ListServer -- Sponsor: The Microscopy Society of America To Subscribe/Unsubscribe -- Send Email to ListServer(a)MSA.Microscopy.Com >On-Line Help http://www.msa.microscopy.com/MicroscopyListserver/FAQ.html >-----------------------------------------------------------------------. > > >I have a Philips 301 microscope that needs a new home. It is in good running condition. There are a lot of spare parts and consumables to go along with the microscope. The mercury pump has been removed. The microscope is presently up and running but will soon need to be dismantled to free up the room for another microscope. If interested please email me directly. >Dismantling and shipping will be at the new owner's expense. > >Debbie Lietz >Electron Microscopy Technologist >Biology Department, Trent University >1600 Westbank Drive >Peterborough, Ontario >K9J 7B8 > >Tel: (705)748-1011 ext.1486 *** Fax: (705) 748-1205 ***Email: dlietz(a)trentu.ca

23 years, 7 months

What's in a No Name Computer?

by epgroot＠ucdavis.edu

Anyone know about the No Name Computers (NNC) company? I picked up a 20-slot S-100 mainframe model NNC 100 the other day and I'm not too sure what to make of it since my only S-100 experience is a Heath/Zenith Z-100. Did NNC market computer systems, or just the box of slots? The box has some boards, which were not seated in the slots. From lowest to highest slot number they are: CompuPro INTERFACER 4 CompuPro CPU 8085/88 CompuPro SYSTEM SUPPORT 1 CompuPro RAM20 CompuPro RAM20 CompuPro DISK 1 with 'BOOT CD/M.B' ROM I assume this machine has enough intelligence to boot a floppy, so a bootstrap doesn't have to be keyed in. Do you think it has enough intelligence to differentiate SS/DS and SD/DD drives? I also picked up some 8" floppies, but none of them say No Name Computers! The various labels are: Big Board CP/M, WordStar, SuperCalc, Typing Tutor, Easy Flow, SpellGuard, Vedit, SpellStar, ARC, dBaseII, DataStar, Rainbow BASIC, Rainbow Pascal, Cromemco CDOS, X-8, Turbo Pascal, SIG-M BigBoard, and Mix C. Do any of these seem likely candidates to boot this computer? Any help would be much appreciated! Edwin

23 years, 7 months

four-phase systems

by n8uhn＠yahoo.com

hi, i noticed a message concering four-phase systems equipment. i have been looking for four phase cpu's to complete a system that i am trying to restore. could the person please e-mail me back my address is n8uhn(a)yahoo.com. the photo links do not work as they moved the page but i would still like to see them. thankx,Bill (n8uhn(a)yahoo.com) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/

23 years, 7 months

Wanted: iAPX-432

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On May 23, Carlos Murillo wrote: > I remember that there were ISA boards with multiple i860's > offered back then; the idea was to have lots of number-crunching > power in a PC back then. However, I never saw similar The MicroWay NumberSmasher/860 comes to mind. Impressive specs, even by today's standards. I'd love to get my paws on one or more of those. > products based on i960. I believe that the i860 was geared > more towards float processing/embedded control/multi user OS/ > parallel processing architectures and the i960 was strictly for > embedded control, with emphasis on integer performance. > You'll find i960's in many HP laser printers. And many non-HP printers as well. The '960 is also well-suited for non-embedded applications. -Dave McGuire

23 years, 7 months

IBM 5161

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 5/23/01 11:26:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Glenatacme(a)aol.com writes: << One of these was in the middle of a big bunch of junk at the shop. Looks like it's got two 5 MB hard drives inside. A large-diameter cable is attached; evidently this connects to the "receiver" card in a PC. This may be distasteful, but I'm thinking of putting it on Ebay. Has anyone ever seen one of these sell before? If so, for how much??? >> that must be one of those famous expansion cabinets. Ive been looking for one myself; I have some parts and cable, but do not have the entire thing. -- DB Young Team OS/2 old computers, hot rod pinto and more at: www.nothingtodo.org

23 years, 7 months

Goodwill, Auctions via Listserv, etc...

by mbbrutman＠bresnanlink.net

I've been lurking, but I pipe up once in a while about the smaller iron (like PCjrs). I generally withhold my opinion to avoid wasting bandwidth, but I feel strongly enough about this to want to say something. Spotting something in a secondhand store, asking for help here because you don't know if it is a toaster or a computer, and then using a this listserv to auction it off is in poor taste. This wasn't a "Hey, I found a PCjr to PC keyboard adapter, does anybody need one" kind of question. Somebody made the argument that given the rarity of the item, it is appropriate to auction it. Fine. Auction it on E-Pay, and use their bandwidth and resources. Oh, by the way, it's usually good form to OWN the item you are auctioning. Post a notice here that the item is going up on Ebay if it truly is that interesting. This isn't a "keep it in the family/community" deal, it was more along the lines of "Can I make a buck, and how hard can I squeeze?" My vote for the person who should own it is Louis - he was passionate about it. That's a sign of a good home. ;-) To those of you who entered the bidding; I hope the seller's ethics raised some flags in your heads before you made your bids. I would not buy under these circumstances. Mike

23 years, 7 months

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