Hi Everyone...I recently inherited a PenMate Tablet made by Mouse Systems and would like to know if anyone can email me a copy of the driver floppy which came with it and or even tell me the voltage since it is missing the driver floppy and power adaptor! :-) Thanks in advance!
-Percy
> From: Adrian Vickers <avickers(a)solutionengineers.com>
> No, a pair of ZX81 kits went through recently (although a search no
longer
> shows them, irritatingly) for daft money. OTOH, when a built one can
fetch
> ?200+.... I suspect that was just a mad bidder moment however.
Hmm. I guess this means I'm rich ;>) I have a ton of this stuff here, and
have not been watching Ebay enough.
> I wonder if Zebra do a bulk discount; it strikes me that one could buy a
> load, then sell them in the UK for easy money...
Someone already bought a bunch and brought them into the UK but by the time
he paid the freight and customs he had to sell the kits for UKP 90. I'm
not sure how he made out on the deal . . . also, the ZX81/Spectrum crowd in
the UK would never pay this sort of money. Check comp.sys.sinclair.
Glen
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I have a lead on an unbuilt Heathkit H-89 computer that is still in the
original
shipping carton (the smaller boxes inside are still factory sealed), along
with
two CRTs. I know Tony would recommend I buy it and build it, but what would
a fair price be for such an item?
A bit off-topic, but I'm also looking for Heathkit manuals for the IC-2008A
(desk calculator), GC-1005 (digital clock), and ID-1390A (digital
thermometer).
I recently acquired each of these devices but they're all showing erratic
behavior of one sort or another. Any ideas where to find these manuals,
preferably cheaply? I've found w7fg's web site, but are there other sources?
Cheers,
Dan
http://www.decodesystems.com/wanted.html
> From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com>
> I could be mistaken about this, but IIRC, a risky bet, but ... wasn't the
ZX80 a
> <$50 proposition back in the '80's and the '81 slightly less, on the
order of
> $29.95?
The ZX80 kits originally sold for 199 British Pounds in 1980 (about US$400
at that time). The ZX81 was advertised in Scientific American in 1981 for
$99 (the assembled version was $149). By '84 the ZX80s were pretty much
gone and the '81s were at the $29.95 level you mention.
Glen
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> From: Louis Schulman <louiss(a)gate.net>
> I assume this is on for Saturday, September 15, as previously announced.
Have announcements been
> placed in the appropriate usenet groups? We certainly want to let all
those who might be interested know
> about this get together!
Louis, the CFCJF is absolutely on! I have posted notices in about a dozen
usenet groups and have had a few inquiries. As always, the more the
merrier so if you know some places where you can spread the word please do
so. We might not have a big crowd the first time, but if everyone has fun
and word gets out we might be able to do this once or twice every year.
See ya there!
Glen
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Louis,
Welcome aboard.
Joe's and several other collectors are in Orlando. I live in the Ft.
Lauderdale area but will be in Orlando that weekend. Once we get a little
feedback, we'll set a time and place.
Is Saturday September 8th OK for you?
Steverob
>From: "Louis Schulman" <louiss(a)gate.net>
>Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
>To: "classiccmp-classiccmp.org" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>, "joe"
><rigdonj(a)intellistar.net>
>CC: "Glenatacme-aol.com" <Glenatacme(a)aol.com>,
>"musicman38-mindspring.com" <musicman38(a)mindspring.com>
>Subject: Re: Central Florida Computer Junk Fest !
>Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 13:25:03 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Hey! I am in Tampa! My wife says: You have way too much computer
>junk! Get rid of it!
>
>So, count me in! You guys are in Orlando?
>
>Louis Schulman
>
>On Wed, 08 Aug 2001 09:15:11 -0400, joe wrote:
>
>#
># Steve Robertson said "Why don't you send out an invitation to the
>#"Central Florida Computer Junk Fest".
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> At the last TRW swapmeet in So. Cal, I picked up a couple of Atari
> XE130's for $5 each. The seller said he had pulled them out of a
> school computer lab. No power supplies, but a quick trip to Ebay fixed
> that...
Haha, I bet you ended up paying twice that for the PSU's. ^_^
> So I connect one of them to my TV, and flip on the power switch. The
> console LED turned on, and the TV screen went black. That's it.
> Uh-oh...
Houston.....
> Well, we have another one to try. So I connect it, and it boots into
> Atari Basic. Much better. I did a quick hello-world type basic
> program. Welcome to the world of Atari.
> So, is the other one fixable?
http://www.tomheroes.com/atari_repair.htm
No, really, the first thing you ought to do is open it up and make
sure there aren't any burnt up or leaking caps, or other visible signs
of damage to the board. Then, swap any socketed chips you find with
the 'good' ones from the other machine. Be sure to swap them back
individually after testing, nothing worse than complicating an already
complicated problem. I don't know if the Atari kit has any trouble
chips like the PLA in the C64. I have two 130XE's myself that I've
never had any problems with. If there aren't any socketed chips,
an easy chip test is to power the machine up, wait about 30 seconds,
and put your finger on the top of each of the "big" chips. If any one
of them is already hot, it's probably shorted and a good candidate for
socketing and swapping. Test the RAM chips in the same way, with your
finger or other heat-sensitive probe.
Good luck, let us know what you come up with.
-----
> From: Adrian Vickers <avickers(a)solutionengineers.com>
> eBay suggests that unbuilt ZX81s are worth silly money (think ?300 ($450)
> upwards).
Maybe you're thinking of unbuilt ZX80 kits?? Zebra still sells the ZX81
kits for USD 99.95, which is high. I've seen them go for $50 on ebay
recently. The North American ZX81 kits are not at all rare.
Glen
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> Forwarded for those that may not get the Encompass newsletter
> and who might be interested in their plans.
>
> Jeff
Another follow up.
>
>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,alt.folklore.computers
> Subject: HP Compaq merger, here we go again.
> Summary: Y W8 4 HP
> Followup-To:
> Distribution:
> Organization: Lakewood MicroSystems
> Keywords:
> Cc:
My wife just handed me a pair of Unix Expo Digital Equipment key chains.
Don't know if I ought to EBay 'em for quick cash. Maybe a PII or PIII
for my new motherboard.
The logo d|i|gi|t|a|l in maroon (yeah it's the reworked logo not the
good old blue and white). The standard green UNIX license plate and Live Free
Or Die. (New Hampshire)
The other side a California (The Migration State) plate with the letters
Y W8 4 HP.
Damned if this wasn't prescient. Why Wait For HP --- cause Palmer,
Pfeifer, Capellas and Compaq made a big mess of it. I'm not sure Carly
will do any better. My judgement on Lucent/AT&T managers is they
aren't much better than Compaq's whiz types.
Bill Pechter
Ex DEC, Ex-Concurrent, Ex-Alliant, Ex-IBM, recently Ex Lucent,
Proabably Ex-Computer Hardware Industry for life
Digital Had It Then, Don't you wish you could still buy it NOW!
--
Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a
villain in a James Bond movie -- Dennis Miller
bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@pechter.dyndns.org
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
> > IBM S/390 G1
> > IBM Shark RAMAC 2TB DASD Server
> > SGI Onyx RealityEngine2
> > SGI IrisVision Microchannel (!)
> >
> > Plus I got to hang out with Dave McGuire, Brian Hechinger, Brian's
> > daughter Avalon, Jeff Hellige, and a bunch of other random cool people.
> >
> > Pretty good week, I think.
>
> Holy schultz! I should say so! <seethes>
>
> How'd you manage that?
Well, I spent a crapload of money, and I am driving down to Florida this
weekend. 8-) It's ALL going to be worth it. Oh yes, it is. *evil grin*
Peace... Sridhar
