In a message dated 3/21/03 7:48:21 PM Pacific Standard Time, vcf(a)siconic.com
writes:
> Hey, that was probably the guy that sold the Lisa-1 on eBay for $10,000 ;)
>
I think in 1992-93 or so I sold one to a listmember for $100. It was in our
large warehouse at the time.
I remember thinking it wasn't worth much because it had those weird
pushbutton 5 1/4 inch floppies. Oh well.....
Paxton
Astoria, OR
>Knew there was a reason why I wasn't a real Apple fan:
>
>Gore Joins Apple Board
>
>Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Gore "brings an incredible wealth
>of knowledge and wisdom to Apple from having run the largest
>organization in the world--the United States government--as
>a congressman, senator and our 45th vice president."
>http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo/y/eUOp0BzN6x0DUm0vVG0AK
>
>
Joe
SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT!
With that said... I've just put up a maintenance manual for the MicroVAX 1 & 2, and a collection of three manuals for the MicroPDP-11 series (owner's manual, technical manual, and supplement for the 11/53 system) on E-pay. Low starting bid, no reserve, yadda yadda... ;-)
Thanks (again) for putting up with my occasional ads.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3519&item=3408502046http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3519&item=3408503185
The only thing I ask is, whoever the winning bidder turns out to be, please play nice and share with the rest of the group. ;-)
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ARS KC7GR (Formerly WD6EOS) since 12-77 -- kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates that it would be superior
to what I have now..." (Taki Kogoma, aka Gym Z. Quirk)
> > I've never seen an SMS product that was actually Q-Bus. The SMS systems I
> > used to have had all the I/O on a *big* board that the Q-Bus backplane
> > connected into. The only Q-Bus boards you had to have were CPU and Memory.
>
> I think you got one of those SMS Q-Bus Boxes from me. They are an interesting
> system. A small QBus system piggybacked into a SMS Hard/Floppy drive box. I
> remember one with 8" drives and one with 5" drives, rack mount approximately
> 2U in size.
I got both of them at the same time I got the PDP-11/44 from you (I still
have the /44).
Zane
I found a couple of odd DG parts yesterday. One is a "Paddle Board". Copywrited 1974. It's about 5" x 1 1/2" and has an edge connector on one side and a bunch of small individual wires soldered to it. The wires are about 18" long and have small number tags on them and appear to have been used to connect to multiple small devices.
The other piece is a round wiring cable with a DB-25M connector on one end and a male and female HP-IB(?) connector on the other. The cable is black and about 6' long. Anyone know what these are for?
Joe
How about a VS 7110?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3408448778
>I'm trying to find a Wang VS-85 or VS-90. Any condition. These are
>rather large systems, the VS-85 is about the size of a washing machine,
>and the VS-90 is a little bit wider than the VS 85. If anybody runs
>across one in their adventures, please contact me. I used to have a
>VS90, many years ago. Now that I have space, I'd like to find one, if
>there are any still out there.
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Looking for CP/M boot disks for the xmess emulator, in particular the
Kaypro 2 boot images. Tried 22disk with my Kaypro disks on several
systems, but none of them would read them :-(.
In a message dated 3/21/03 1:01:25 PM Pacific Standard Time,
healyzh(a)aracnet.com writes:
> I've never seen an SMS product that was actually Q-Bus. The SMS systems I
> used to have had all the I/O on a *big* board that the Q-Bus backplane
> connected into. The only Q-Bus boards you had to have were CPU and Memory.
>
>
I think you got one of those SMS Q-Bus Boxes from me. They are an interesting
system. A small QBus system piggybacked into a SMS Hard/Floppy drive box. I
remember one with 8" drives and one with 5" drives, rack mount approximately
2U in size.
SMS made all sorts of Q-Bus interface cards. I think they might have gotten
their start with 8" floppy controllers but I am not sure. I know they made
serial port cards.
Some SMS cards are marketable. I think they made a SCSI. I would think the
floppy controllers because they supported other types of drives than DEC. I
will have to look into my box and see what I have left.
I don't think there is a lot of support out there.
Paxton
Astoria, OR
