After I got the PowerMacs, I went back with an idea. Since he considers
486's and lower to be useless I made a suggestion. I would tear them down
to cards, memory, drives, cables, etc. and I would take the stuff to an
upcoming hamfest (see next posting) and sell it cheap. He agreed and we
decided on a 50-50 split and I got 'skimming' rights to the machines as
I tear them down to cover my time. We also decided to recycle the cases
and motherboards to keep them out of the landfill.
So after a few afternoons I got more PC stuff piled around here than even
I can tolerate. Let me just say that I am not so naive as to believe that
the majority of this mess will sell. I suspect the shop owner thinks
otherwise. But who knows, someone might walk up and see that box full
of hundreds of SIMMS and make me an offer that I just can't refuse.
During those afternoons, he would come back and offer to give me this and
that. I think he was happy to just be able to walk into the store room
and see the empty space grow. Out of all his offers was a monitor for a
PowerMac that had been recently uncovered.
The thing that probably made all of this worth it is what I call the Borland
Bonanza. Among all the machines were boxes of software. I got about two
dozen sets of disks in unopened plastic wrap. It includes Paradox, dbase,
Turbo C++, Turbo Pascal, ObjectVision, Delphi, etc. For some products there
is both DOS and Windoze versions. Given that it is older versions, I suppose
that it is available on their web site. Still there is something to be said
for having the original disks.
Mike
I went into the local PC reseller's shop just over a month ago. He had
gotten in a big mess of machines which included some Apple stuff. I managed
to talk him out of three PowerMacs (not quite 10 years old yet) for 10 bucks
each. The models were 7200/120 (with a 1.2 gb HDD), 7200/90, and a 7100/66.
These weren't for me though and they are gone now. A friend of mine took
them for his daughter's private church school. If it were not for his efforts
they probably wouldn't even have that first machine.
These were the machines only, no monitors, kybds, mice, etc. That has
been partially rectified. See my next posting.
Mike
> I probably have the room, but not the inclination. I am
> really a software person - the hardware is just there to
> run the software - well mostly - my wife certainly would
> not agree when she she looks at the basement full of
> PDP-11 junk.
Ahh, but that merely takes a quick
#ifdef WIFE
# undef WIFE
# define WIFE GEEK_WIFE
#endif
to fix... :)
> As for using the RL02 and RK05 drives, while I have
> one RK05 drive at the moment and a borrowed RKV11-D
> (THANK YOU Ethan Dicks - which I am close to being
> finished with) to recover some RK05 packs I obtained
> last year in Montreal, I would NEVER consider using the
> RL02 drives, let alone the RK05 drive, as a production
> unit to fix software bugs, etc. So if I really want to run
> some code which can only be run using an RK05 device
> driver under RT-11, I would use Ersatz-11 and run the
> code on a PC under Windows 98 SE/Ersatz-11. About
> the only problem is that it will run TOO FAST - about
> 15 times the speed of a PDP-11/93 right now and
> eventually I hope to get to 50 times the speed of a
> PDP-11/93 when a high end Pentium 4 is cheap enough.
I do all my Ultrix-11 development under E11 too, simple
because (a) it's a hell of a lot faster, and (b) I can
take Falcon (the "machine") with me, including its four
RA82 drives and all the others. :)
Still.. I do try make sure it still runs (acceptably) on
Real Hardware as much as possible. Which usually means
teaming with retrogeek-friends for Yet Another retro-session.
(did I mention the WIFE issue already? They usually seem to
have issues with these sessions, too.. duuno why ;-)
So... OK. I probably would not run a bunch of RP's for fun
anymore. However, I have friends ['lo, ed ;-] that do, soo... :)
--fred
Sorry gang,
email/web site just came back on line (net seems to be having a bad week)
and in trying to respond to some inquiries I see that the mailer responded
back to the list. My bad.
-jim
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jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com
The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw
Greetings all;
Finances suck at present, and to be honest I don't know if I'm going to be
able to make VCF this year. (foo)
So... in an attempt to free up some much needed $$ and keep the lights on,
(and maybe even get to VCF) I'm having a "Garage Sale". (appropriate,
no?)
The offering list and details can be found at:
http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw/Gsale
Any questions, drop me a note.
Thanks!
-jim
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jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com
The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw
I know Allison posted on this several years ago, but I couldn't find a
collection of instructions. Maybe someone has put this together in a
"cookbook."
I have several RD53s that I'd like to get data off of. I opened one up as
described in previous posts. However it's not obvious to my eyes where the
failed rubber bumper is. Do any of you have any detailed instructions you
can send or point me to regarding repairing these drives?
Thanks for any help.
John
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John A. Dundas III
Director, Information Technology Services, Caltech
Mail Code: 014-81, Pasadena, CA 91125-8100
Phone: 626.395.3392 FAX: 626.449.6973
<mailto:dundas@caltech.edu>
I have a Spectrum (issue two) with a duff power connector.
Does anyone know where I can get a direct replacement
connector in the UK (other than ripping it off another
similar Spectrum ...).
Thanks
Antonio
arcarlini(a)iee.org
Speaking of a C64... I know of someone who has one she wants to
get rid of along with a disk drive...
Contact Cesullivan(a)aol.com if interested...
Megan
>> I would actually like to see the "official" cutoff pushed out to 20
>> years, as 10 years just does not seem that long ago...
>
>We could start a second list: ClassicerCmp.
Or named 'ClassicCmpLite'
Megan
