At 22:30 -0600 11/8/06, Ethan wrote:
>$600 for an RL8A in the mid '80s, $400 for a KT24 (to run 2BSD), over
>$1000 for a PDP-8/S, $800 for a SPARC1 in the early 90s...
>
>Guilty, guilty, guilty.
$800 for a pile of NeXT gear, because it included a NeXTDimension
card. Still working on restoring, equipping, and distributing the
slabs, which has cost hundreds more dollars so far.
$800 for a NeXT cube, but at the time that wasn't "classic".
I'm not quite sure how to count the gas, storage space, etc. over the
years, but that might be substantial.
Still a cheap hobby, compared to many things.
--
Mark Tapley, Dwarf Engineer
(I haven't cleared my neighborhood)
210-379-4635 Dwarf Phone, 210-522-6025 Office Phone
Certainly, there are a lot of logic analyzsers (or
analysers, if you are English) floating around. I was
told by a guy who specializes in "refurbished" (i.e.
dusted off) test equipment that this is because a lot
of it is gov't surplus where they just grab the unit.
He also mentioned that a lot of university surplus has
partially blown pods because of carelessness - due to
the nature of what they do, not much protection on the
inputs.
I have a Tek 1230 which I was lucky enough to get some
pods with. I had another one w/o pods and GOOD LUCK on
getting schematics, etc on this stuff - it's a "black
art" proprietary sort of thing.
=====
-Steve Loboyko
Incredible wisdom actually found in a commerical fortune cookie:
"When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day."
Website: http://juliepalooza.8m.com/sl
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Awhile ago there was a thread on the decline of electronic hobby-
related retailers in the US and UK.
Well, I think I've figured out where they've gone--Thailand!
Take a look at the catalog on this site (Warning--it's a 12MB PDF):
http://www.etteam.com/
I wish I could read Thai...
They have a English-language dealer site at http://www.futurlec.com
but they don't carry half of the good stuff in the catalog.
Cheers,
Chuck
Bob,
I have the pocket programmer and have lost the disk as well, did you ever
find a file to run it? I know it's a dos only disk, but that is not a
problem. Let me know.
Mike IOWA
What Warren Wrote:
> Hey, it's worse than that. I recall seeing, about a year ago, an ad
>for an electronics project SIMULATOR in Windows software. You build the
>project, and it pretends to run it, and does what real components would
>do, producing a signal on screen, and as sound, if appropriate. *SIGH*
Perhaps the software in question was slightly different, but electronics simulation software
(such as PSPICE and its variants) have
been around for a while- used it in college. Very convienient to be able to mock something up
with the magic smoke being completely virtual, especially when you barely know what you're doing.
I just found a bow of brand new Iomega 100meggers for
$20 (x10). Was thinking of hacking a scsi card for the
T2K, but how long will zips be available?
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is anyone familiar with a IIrC sip module that has
probably smt 4164s (or 41256s). Besides the obvious
physical difference, could they replace normal ics?
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