test-drb April 2003

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by geoffr＠zipcon.net

anyone have any of these floating around? I can't believe I gave 'em all away and now I need to populate a laserjet IIID memory board :(

20 years, 7 months

FS/FT Items

by pat＠purdueriots.com

I'm looking for either QBUS parts, or $5 + shipping for each of the following.. Trying to clean out my room before I have to move in a few months. - SparcStation 20, 32MB ram, 1x50MHz proc, floppy, 2GB HDD. I have 2 of these to get rid of. - Macintosh IIfx with a pair of 16 channel A/D cards, and some sort of interface software on the drive. It was originally a part of a NMR system, and still has the software on it. Unfortunately, they decided to crush the instrumentation that hooked up to the I/O cards to do the NMR stuff. Has 8MB ram and (I think) a 120MB hdd. - Macintosh Classic II. 80MB HDD, not sure on amount of ram. - Macintosh Plus 1MB - Macintosh Quadra 700, 16MB ram, 230MB HDD. - Mac-plus style keyboards and mice (4pin RJ11 keyboard, DE9 mouse) - PS/2 Model 70, with 6MB ram and an 80MB hard drive. I have at least two to get rid of, but need to find where I stuffed the ram first... - 2 Full-height 50pin centronics SCSI enclosures - HP 9000 model 715/50, I think it has 32MB ram. - IBM RS/6000 7011 Model 220 with 32MB ram, 400MB+ HDD, 2.88MB FDD, Gt1x framebuffer Now, what I'm looking for in trade: + Small-ish (can be lifted by 2 people) PERTEC or SCSI 9 track tape drive, that is manual/autoloading. I don't really want one that's slot load, I rather be able to see it spinning (and possibly manually load it). I use to have one, but it died, and I'd like to get a 'new' one. This would be worth a few things from the above, and I'd probably be willing to pay some money for it. + QBUS PERTEC card. + QBUS RAM card for a PDP-11/23, 128kW or better. + RLV12 + QBUS ethernet card that works with PDP-11 OS's. Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS Information Technology at Purdue Research Computing and Storage http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu

20 years, 7 months

I live in NYC and have no space for my old Mac... (fwd)

by vcf＠siconic.com

See below. Reply to original sender. Reply-to: SYoshioka7(a)aol.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:48:24 -0400 From: SYoshioka7(a)aol.com To: chrisa(a)harvestworks.org, pencilbox(a)pencilbox.org, bakermusic(a)mindspring.com, donations(a)worldcomputerexchange.org, donate(a)vintage.org Subject: I live in NYC and have no space for my old Mac... Hi, My name is Stacy Yoshioka and I have a very old Mac computer, monitor and printer that I no longer have space for. I have purchased a PC laptop about a year ago and since I live in a cramped NYC apartment I cannot store it any longer and have finally transfered all of the old info to a PC disk. Anyway, it is a Performa 6360 and the printer is a Style Writer II. The entire system still works and I have the manuals and backup software. I also installed about 100 mb of extra memory when I got it. If any of your organizations could use this machine please let me know. I saved so much money to buy it when I was in college that I can't see just throwing it away. I do not have a car in the city so if any of your organizations pick them up or are easy to get to please let me know as well. Thank You, Stacy Yoshioka Stacy Jin Yoshioka 126 East 103rd Street #27 New York, New York 10029 212-289-2242 646-245-3860 SYoshioka7(a)aol.com -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

20 years, 7 months

FS/FT Items

by drido＠optushome.com.au

At 05:27 PM 4/29/03, you wrote: >I'm looking for either QBUS parts, or $5 + shipping for each of the >following.. Trying to clean out my room before I have to move in a few >months. >- IBM RS/6000 7011 Model 220 with 32MB ram, 400MB+ HDD, 2.88MB FDD, > Gt1x framebuffer I'd like this. I've got a Dilog DQ130 Qbus card (pertec controller AFAIK) and a Texas Instruments TM10010 Qbus RAM card (128k x 18 bit I thnk), but I doubt it's worth shipping the RS/6000 to Australia :(

20 years, 7 months

eBay sniping

by doug_jackson＠citadel.com.au

>> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Mike wrote: >> >> > I would bet monet that no person ever sees a bid placed with 2 or 3 >> > seconds left that has time to react and change their bid. >> >> How much monet? >> > >One clod. I saw an interesting thing happen a couple of years ago, with *silly* consequences for those involved.

20 years, 7 months

eBay sniping

by avickers＠solutionengineers.com

At 20:54 24/04/2003, you wrote: > > At 18:23 24/04/2003, you wrote: > > > > > >>All this garbage about > >>extending auctions an extra minute, blah blah blah, is just a dumb idea. > > > > I dispute that - the "extension" idea is what happens in a "normal" > > auction. The auctioneer will take bids until all competing bidders back > > out, leaving the one winner. This, naturally, maximises the sale price > > (which is good for the seller & the auction house). > >Absolute nonsense! In a normal auction, there is no specified "end time." Er, so? > These are two completely different formats. In a normal auction, >everyone shows up at the same time and bids. Bidding is only for a few >minutes. Rather like a typical eBay auction then. >In an eBay auction (a completely different format) everyone has a very >long time to decide. Only because (a) there's so many items on eBay, and (b) it operates in several time zones. Imagine having to login to eBay every day at 3pm (then adjust for timezone) just to bid on an item. >If you had an extended time feature (or pathetic idea) no one would bid on >a 10 day auction until day 10. There would be no need to, unless you just >couldn't be around. So, rather like the current format. >What you are trying to do is have a completely new format for an auction. Bullshit. The format is identical, with a built-in "anti-snipe" measure. >Specified end time with extended provision. You don't have any such >"NORMAL" auction like this. Of course you do. "Normal" auctions are held on a specific day, which in real-world terms is much the same thing as an eBay end time. Hell, you even have "buy-it-now" (sold prior, in a normal auction format), withdrawn & changed lots. >This is like a >sealed bid auction because the auction ends at a specified time and the >winners will be those that place last second bids (i.e. not seen by >others). Absolute bullshit. A sealed bid auction does not allow you to bid more than once, nor do you know if your bid has been exceeded. Nor is there any advantage/disadvantage in bidding early or late, as no-one knows what the bids are until the auction finishes. -- Cheers, Ade. Be where it's at, B-Racing! http://b-racing.com

20 years, 7 months

eBay sniping

by avickers＠solutionengineers.com

At 17:45 28/04/2003, you wrote: >Here is another interesting thing about sniping. I hear people all the >time saying that sniping hurts sellers. > >However, I have never seen a seller that doesn't like sniping. It's >always a bidder that complains and never the experienced seller. I'm extremely tempted to agree with you on this (although I should point out that I don't really give a monkeys about sniping/not sniping - all of the auctions I've not won, I wouldn't have paid the final price even if I'd known it in advance). The only thing I'd say, which may or may not be seen as a disagreement, is that we don't /know/ that the eBay fixed end-time model does - or does not - hurt sellers. Sure, sniping ups the ante in the last few seconds much of the time - but would it have gone higher with an extending auction? Until (if) eBay try it, we will never know... -- Cheers, Ade. Be where it's at, B-Racing! http://b-racing.com

20 years, 7 months

Facit 4070 8 level Paper Tape Punch For Sale (Cambridge, UK)

by A.F.R.Bain＠statslab.cam.ac.uk

As part of an imposed old-hardware clear out, and the decision on the grounds of space to stick to 5 level tape for which I have a reader and printer, I've got a Facit 4070 paper tape punch for sale. In working order, complete with chad box. Instructions on connecting to a parallel port may be found at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~pmaydell/misc/cardpunch/dongle.htm It's in Cambridge, UK and is heavy so would be expensive to post anywhere! Offers, questions to me at <afrb2(a)cam.ac.uk> Alan Bain

20 years, 7 months

Two new Apple toys

by cb＠mythtech.net

>It uses ADB mouse and keyboard so if you have that your set. Monitor is >probably the only problem. An old mac monitor would probably work. No, it probably won't work with a mac montior. The Mac uses a different style RGB. But, the IIgs does have composite video as well as RGB, so you can always use the composite video in absence of the right RGB monitor. Mac ADB keyboards and mice are fully compatible with the IIgs. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

20 years, 7 months

eBay sniping

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

Vintage Computer Festival wrote: > Superman could win any sealed-bid auction he wanted to. And all along, we thought the "S" stood for Sellam! :)

20 years, 7 months

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