test-drb February 2002

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by doc＠mdrconsult.com

There's a crate of dead Apple CD drives at work. Yes, mostly with sleds attached. My boss, the scrapper, will send them to the crusher unless I ask for some, at which point he will perceive value and want large bux. What is a CD sled with screws worth? considering shipping will be another $3-$4.... And who all wants one? IIRC, the same sled fits the pizza-box Centris, 6100, 8x0, 950, and 8500? Haven't seen any bezels. Doc

22 years, 5 months

What's your specialty?

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> ---------- > From: Chris > > > >Anyone have a sled and > >faceplate to stick a CD-ROM in the Quadra 800? > > Velcro... the drive sled of champions. > > Bzzzt! Wrong answer, smart-ass! Everybody knows the answer is duct tape! Now, what about the face plate? --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 90581 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

22 years, 5 months

Computer Museum of America on Tuesday night's PBS NOVA (fwd)

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>Sorry - satellite goes down 2-3 times per winter as a standard, but it >picked one hell of a time to go down... Yeah... my satallite goes out maybe 6 times a year (last time was during the Oz season finale... what is it with picking bad timing). But even with 6 times a year... that is still better than my cable that used to go out about 6 times a month! (and I get WAY more channels for the same money... and STILL find myself flipping around with nothing good to watch) Now... if I could just get a dual decoder TiVo to go with my satallite (I have Dish Network... which is a bit behind the curve... DirecTV users have better decoder options) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 5 months

Mac Plus NIB! (yep, the 1986 comp, still new in the box)

by jon＠slurpee.org

Ok, a few of you might know me from a cross post that Doc posted here about some NeXT computers... At one point I was an avid collector of all things computer (and I still have quite a bit), so I cant pass up a good deal, but unfortunantly while I'm in school I have to part with most of the stuff I get in order to get food and pay rent :) There are a few pics of this bad boy in: http://cherry.slurpee.org/~jon/pics/ The box it self has a few markings on it, but the contents inside are perfect (one side of the software box is ripped, but the computer/kb/m havent been touched). I figured I'd find a better home for it on this list than on ebay, so if you're interested make me an offer. If you need misc pieces for computer parts let me know also, I find a lot of old dec/rs6000/hp9000/apple/sgi/next/misc (I dont really like x86 stuff) so let me know and I'll keep my eye out for you. Thanks, jon

22 years, 5 months

SOL-10???

by wh.sudbrink＠verizon.net

I just noticed something weird about my SOL. >From everything I can tell, it is a SOL-20. It has the S-100 backplane, the big power supply, the numpad, etc. BUT, the silver serial number label reads: Sol Terminal Computer Model No. 10 <<<yes, ten ------------------------ Serial No. 103476 ------------------------ etc. I wonder how this machine ended up with the wrong lid?

22 years, 5 months

Taking control of your collection

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Hellige [mailto:jhellige@earthlink.net] > >about me. She does have her own collection, and > >encourages me way too much. > Mine does as well...she collects Barbie dolls and we have 3 > cabinets full of the things. She hasn't bought any for a while, Um, no... mine has a small VAX, an AT&T Unix PC, and Apple Lisa, a small Macintosh, a Tadpole Sparcbook... Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 5 months

Taking control of your collection

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Roger Merchberger [mailto:zmerch@30below.com] > Darn, you prolly know perl about 1000000% better than me... > So, I can't trade your wife 6 months of perl programming for > a sparcbook... > :-( I don't think she's thinking about getting rid of it anyway. :) She also knows enough perl to get by, so it probably wouldn't be a very good trade either. I haven't been able to get her to try assembly, pascal, modula, oberon, or c much yet. > Always wanted one of those. Me too. :) Especially since she got this one. They're very impressive up close, and I think all notebooks should be judged by them. > My wife is also amongst the computer illiterate, but at least > I have her > brainwashed^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H educated enough to not want > Windows on > any machine she uses... :-) That's the first step on the path to computer literacy. :) Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 5 months

What's your specialty?

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>(Oh, just realised I forgot one of my favourite toys - my Apple Newton >Original Message Pad. I think it'll be on topic in a year :-) I don't have an OMP, but I have a 100 and two 110s... I used to write software for them. I was one of the few people that was actually a member of the "newton developer" program with apple... now I am just a plain old "select" member :-( -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 5 months

What's your specialty?

by ken＠seefried.com

Hmmm...specialty... - National Semi 32000 based stuff - SBCs & eval boards for odd processors (e.g. Signetics 2650, Fairchild F8, RCA 1801, MIL-STD-1750A) - VMEBus stuff - 68060 based stuff (mostly VMEbus...not really interested in an Amiga) - Lisp, Smalltalk or Modula machines - Interesting terminals (Tektronix, ATT 5620/730/BLIT) - Bubble memory devices, and to a lesser extent, core memory devices And other sufficiently odd things... Ken

22 years, 5 months

IBM RS/6k

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On February 5, Pat Finnegan wrote: > Over at Purdue Salvage, they have an RS/6000 Model 7013 'space heater' > sized system. On the front it says 'Power Server 560(590?)' Any ideas on > value, and is anyone interested? If it's a 590, I'm definitely interested. No idea what it'd be worth though. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

22 years, 5 months

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test-drb February 2002