Hello all,
I have in my posession, three tested, working, Rom 00 Apple IIgs machines,
complete with monitor, 3.5" and 5.25" floppies, keyboards, and mice. I am
wondering if anyone would like them, for a nominal price + shipping.
Before anyone misunderstands me, I am not asking for tons of money for these
beasts, as I realize they're pretty crippled (They had defective video
chips, and the ROM version doesn't allow you to run GS/OS). They do run
most Apple IIe sowftware, and could be considered as an accelerated IIe.
Not the best example of a IIgs, however, if you are looking for a machine to
complete your collection, they are available. Note that NONE of them are
the "Woz" variant.
I got these (along with several "ROM 01" and "Rom 00 upgraded to Rom 01"
IIgs machines) from a local school. I would like to save them from the
dump, and help the school out as well. Therefore, I will take offers on
these machines until Thursday 04/11, 11:59PM Eastern US time. ANY AND ALL
proceeds will be donated back to the school the computers came from. I
will separately notify the highest bidders that they have won....
Your chance to own a small part of Apple II history, and help out a local
school as well..
I will ship anywhere, worldwide, that the US Postal Service allows me to
ship, and I will consider shipping just a CPU (i.e., no monitor, or no
drives, or whatever combination you want), as it will cut down on
shipping... The units will be shipped from US ZIP code 01473, and to give
you an idea, a monitor weighs about 25 lbs boxed, and a CPU weighs (I think)
8 lbs. boxed... I will quote actual weights and shipping charges to anyone
who asks....
Thanks!
Rich B.
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>This year's Trenton Computer Fest is coming up on May 4 and 5.
>More info at http://www.tcf-nj.org/
OMG... I was just smacking myself on the head about this earlier.
I have been hanging onto a previous email from a few months ago that
mentioned this fest. I just the other day accidentally deleted it (and of
course, since my email client removes anything older than 30 days from my
deleted folder, it prompty purged the email).
What wonderful timing for you to post the reminder... THANKS! (now, does
anyone know if the Trenton DMV is anywhere near the fest grounds? Maybe I
can transfer my fire department's trailer registrations to NF while I am
down there so we can stop paying reg fees every year)
-chris
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On Mon, 14 May 2001, George Leo Rachor Jr. wrote:
> Stay of execution on this Diablo 3200.....
>
> We have bought a bit of time as my wife has convinced them not to hack it
> up until I get to see this critter.
Cool!
> Obviously we have no software for the machine and I'm assuming you don't
> either.
Actually, I do. I got the original OS disks as well as a bunch of
floppies with various bits of accounting type software and useless data.
> The computer recycler has agreed not to remove the original components
> until it can be determined if the box is usuable in some rudimentry
> function as is. (They were going to gut the original components and
> replace the guts with something more modern).
Silly. Were they planning to use the same CRT and keyboard? I don't know
how. If all they wanted was a nice desk for a computer then maybe they
should go to Office Depot?
> Now the challenge is to find software that might boot the machine up.
I can make copies for you. Mine supposedly boots.
Here is a picture of mine.
http://www.siconic.com/computers/Diablo%203200.jpg
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Happened to notice they are 10Base2 (BNC connector and AUI interface
(DB15). According to what little I've found on the web, there is an
adapter available that goes from the AUI DB15 to 10BaseT, so I can test
these out through a hub.
Any comments?
Gary Hildebrand
St. Joseph, MO
My SO has reminded me to ask if any of you have keyboards and mice going
spare which would work with her Sun IPC, or a lead on a
surplus/second-hand supplier for these, in the UK ;)
Thanks for putting up with me
Alex
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doc Shipley [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com]
> Everybody should own a PlexWriter anyhow. ;)
> Seriously, though, considering the price of a SCSI Plexwriter, it'll
> be worth a post to comp.unix.aix to make sure that that's what it
> takes, and that a Plextor will work, for that matter.
For what it's worth, you can get them refurbished from Plextor,
supposedly, for about US$95 for a SCSI cd-rw of some sort. That's
probably the best price I've found on them. The only reason I didn't
get one instead of the Sony drive I finally settled on was that they
didn't answer my email, and I really didn't feel like playing telephone
games trying to find the right number ;)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
Hi. I'm looking at an Amiga 2500, with a 5M hard drive, unknown ram,
a lot of boards in it (the owner knows as little about it as I do), and
no keyboard, mouse, or display. He wants $30 for it. He has a display
>from a Commodore Colt hooked up to the composite video port, and the
2500 will boot to a screen with hand holding a WorkBench 1.3 floppy shown.
Are keyboards as hard to find as it seems? That's the showstopper so
far. Is $30 reasonable for a partially tested A2500? Will the
kbd/mouse from the Colt work?
Aquiring minds want to know. :)
Doc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas H. Quebbeman [mailto:dquebbeman@acm.org]
> To capture an existing CD-ROM into an image file, most
> likely, Chris is correct, but I haven't gone that direction
> yet.
I have. It works as long as the block size isn't odd. Generally
any cd will take a block size of 2048 bytes, however, if the CD
is "bad" (scratched, or what not), a smaller block size (1 ;) may
help you get more good data at the expense of some speed. You
can also use the conv=noerror option to ignore read errors if you
really want whatever data you can get.
As somebody else mentioned, cat works too, but it doesn't have
an option to make it ignore read errors and keep going.
Otherwise, you're right, use mkisofs, or mkhybrid to make a
filesystem from some of your files, and then use cdrecord to burn
it.
There is another program (cdwrite?), but I don't think it has nearly
the same level of device compatibility, not to mention that the
number of systems cdrecord will build for is very impressive.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
> Over the past year, I have sent several messages to Tom Shoppa
> requesting a set of CD ROMs containing the offerings of his at
> the web site, metalab.unc.edu, yet to date I have not received
> the requested material. I have also sent email to Tom directly
> but, he has not answered. Is there some extenuating circumstance
> of which others on this list are more familiar than I?
While it's possible that he's a bit put off being called
'Tom' instead of 'Tim', which is his name, I doubt it...
I know it's often regarded as an 'excuse' when someone
>from whom you exxpect something says that they're 'busy',
but Tim really is... he already had a large backlog of
of work at his tape conversion firm, but my understanding
is that Sept. 11 stretched his work queue out to the length
of one year. Yes, he has what he has estimated to be a one
year-long queue of work to process.
He does seem to find time to post here and there, but a
monk's got to have some pleasures in life...
It would be *nice* if he'd be willing to delegate the
taking care of loose ends on his behalf. He doesn't owe
me anything, though I'd love to get his attention for
15 minutes of Q&A...
-dq
-Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (DougQ at ixnayamspayIgLou.com) [Call me "Doug"]
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