Framingham MA, pick up also possible in the Hudson NH area
as I work there.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Ernest <ernestls(a)home.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Monday, July 23, 2001 12:29 AM
Subject: RE: available....
>...er, where are you at?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
>> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of ajp166
>> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 12:23 PM
>> To: Classic Computers
>> Subject: available....
>>
>>
>> I've decided to thin the herd some so the following is available
>> for best offer or trade.
>>
>> * Visual 1050 system (x2) complete, hard disks, floppies, docs
>> and tech manuals. Must pick up as it's two systems and
>> fairly large/heavy with docs and all. Both work one prettier than
>> the other, many spares.
>>
>> * S100 backplane for rackmount use. No PS. Nice decent bus.
>> Pickup only, heavy and fairly large.
>>
>> As to trade material: Single board computers, ham gear,
>> non computer test gear are of interest.
>>
>> Allison
>>
Hello all,
On Saturday, I took a pleasant road trip to Coventry, RI (about 1.25 hours
South of me) to a school that was closing down to get some old computers. I
knew they had some interesting stuff, but had no idea what awaited....
None of this is rare (as far as I know) or anything, but it was a nice find
for me... Also, some more stuff is there, but I will not make it down for
another trip before they close on 07/31. I will post more information in a
separate message.
The haul was:
- 1 Apple IIc+ with external 5.25" floppy drive
- 1 Apple IIc composite monitor (the small green one on a stand)
- 1 Laser 128EX, with monitor, and external 5.25" and 3.5" drives
- 1 Apple color composite monitor
- Many disks of Apple II software, including DOS 3.3 and ProDOS disks, and
the "Introducing the IIc" series of disks
- Apple Assembly Language book by Don Lancaster (forgot the name)
- Apple IIe SAMS Photofacts
- Applesoft manuals
- 2 TRS-80 Model 4P (in nice shape, and working condition!)
- 7 TRS-80s, mixture of Model III and 4, some with no floppies, some with 1
5.25" and some with 2 5.25". Varying amounts of RAM. All appear to be in
working condition, though not great cosmetically
- 2 TRS-80 Network 3 Controllers (NO clue what these are... Anybody?)
- One device (I forget the name), with a "TRS-80" in the name, that has 16
connectors on the back, 16 LEDs on the front, and a rotary dial on the front
to select one of the 16 inputs. NO clue what it does... I'll get the
details and post later.
- MANY TRS-80 disks, including some original boot disks, SCRIPSIT originals,
and others.
- Some Nice condition TRS-80 manuals
- 13 Commodore 64 "breadbox" computers, many with power supplies and TV
switches
- 2 MSD "Super Disk" units (one w/ broken latch on one of the drives)
- 2 VIC-20s in original boxes (one with a brown computer cover in the box)
- Many original C64 and VIC-20 Educational Software disks
- C64 and VIC-20 manuals, Programmer's reference guides, books, etc.
Some of this stuff will not be staying with me. I rescued it to keep it
>from the dumpster. I also told the principal that I would try to sell it,
and any monies would go to the school (my incentive for doing it is the
stuff I keep, plus I actually think this is fun!). I will post a separate
list of available stuff, and anything that doesn't sell will go to eBay....
But I'll give you all first cut at it... The format will be sealed bids,
accepted for some number of days, with the stuff going to high bidder.
Rich B.
On July 23, Lawrence LeMay wrote:
> > As annoying as "*RARE*" has become on eBay, I've seen exactly ONE of
> > those front panels...and I've been actively hacking pdp8s for nearly
> > twenty years. YMMV.
>
> Whereas I've only seen 2 8a's in my life, and both had those panels, plus
> they are available if you're willing to buy em from resellers...
They both did? Wow. I've only seen a couple of 8/a's, and they've
all had the BA11SA-style "three switches" panel.
An interesting thing...That front panel is very similar to that of the
pdp11/34 KY11-LB panel. The KY11-LB is controlled by an i8008
processor. I wonder if the 8/a programmer's panel uses an i8008 as
well. Also, the pdp11/60 has a similar front panel. Anyone know? I
had a pdp11/60 once, but never dug into the panel.
Which brings up a neat memory...a friend and I sold that pdp11/60
and a bunch of VT220s to Pennington Prep School in Pennington, NJ many
years ago as a timesharing system for their CompSci classes. It ran
RSTS/E v9.4 on a pair of RL02s. That was a nice system...I liked it a
lot.
Yeah, good point about the 8/a's being available from resellers...I
wouldn't want to see those prices, though.
-Dave McGuire
On July 23, Bill Pechter wrote:
> The 8a at least had separate instruction data and bus address leds.
Yeah.
> As far as the 11/60 at Pennington... must've been after I left DEC's
> Field Service in Princeton... or I would've probably gotten sent there.
> I used to go to Mobil in Pennington a lot.
Oh DEC would never have been called on this system...My friend and I
picked up the pdp11/60 when it was decommissioned from Beaver College;
got it for a song...and very *unofficially* (hey, I was 16) sold it to
Pennington and did the installation over a weekend. We got the deal
because my friend had been a student there.
-Dave McGuire
Hello all,
There is a school that I recently visited in Coventry, RI that has some
computer stuff available. I took quite a bit when I went on Saturday, but
more is left, and it wouldn't fit in my truck. I won't have a chance to get
to the school before they close on 07/31, and I told them I'd get the word
out. If any of you are coming down to VCF East, it would be an ideal time
to go. The only catch is it's about an hour from Marlboro by car.
The school is St. Xavier's Academy, and the contacts are Maureen O'Gorman
(mailto:maureen@maureen.com) and Kathy Siok (ride7158(a)ride.ri.net). Phone
number is (401) 826-2130.
They are looking for donations, so the stuff is not free, but the donation
does not have to be huge $$$.
What's left (as of Saturday -- act fast, some of this may be going to the
dump soon):
- Several TRS-80 printers, ribbons, cables
- Zenith luggable, looke like maybe a Z-150??
- Two Macintosh computers -- unsure of the model, I think LC?? Low Profile,
one has an external hard drive
- A sweet Apple IIe setup, 2 drives, monitor, nice IIe, maybe a CP/M card,
as I saw some CP/M disks lying around
- About 10-15 old TV sets (13") that were used as monitors for their
Commodore computers
- Lots of Mac software
- A couple of PC monitors (15" i believe)
- Some Commodore and TRS-80 Software (mostly educational)
There may be more -- that was all I can recall was left. Also, contact
Maureen or Kathy for more specific details. My memory stinks, so I'm sure I
left out some stuff...
Rich B.
Hi:
I have a small "shopping list" and not having been to one of the VCFs
before, I wondered it it was worthy posting it here in case someone is
willing to trade for cash. Any thoughts?
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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Taking a cue from Joe, I looked through a few back issues of Byte. No ads for the ROMWriter directly, but there is a picture of one in a box on the page 19 ad of the June 1982 issue. On the box it says:
Programs 2716 EPROMS
Frees RAM Memory Space
$175
Daniel Segel
At 10:41 AM 07/23/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>At 11:53 PM 7/22/01 +0100, Tony wrote:
>
>>Mountain Computers ROMwriter. Clearly an EPROM programmer, with a 24 pin
>>ZIF socket. I found 2 of these boards.
> Tony,
>
> Like you, I've never been seriously intersted in Apples but I remember seeing these. I'm not sure exactly what they were intended for but I'll look through my old magazines and see if I can fidn any ads. FWIW I passed up one of these that was NIB at a hamfest about 2 years ago.
>
> Joe
--
"Being humble is why I'm a great person."
Daniel A. Segel
dsegel(a)pacbell.net
Hello People,
I have a Rom3 //gs. I also have a 5.25" and a 3.5" floppy drives made
by Applied Engineering that I would like to use with it. If I plug only
the 3.5" drive into the gs it boots fine, but takes awhile. If I plug
the 5.25" drive into the 3.5" drive to dasiy chain them, the computer
boots from the 5.25" floppy and the 3.5" drive isn't seen at all. Am I
doing something wrong? Did I fry something when I plugged the 3.5"
drive into my //e to see if it worked? Does the gs have dip swithes ot
jumpers I need to change? I think this is odd behavior.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
