several have that same look. Methinks the 586 has a
186. old-computers.com. There might be an Altos on
ebay right now.
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Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail.
http://new.mail.yahoo.com
There are a number of listings by one vendor that are of
interest.
the thing I found was an LNW-80 system board, but he
also has a full system, system expansion board as well.
Also are some Ohio Scientific parts, and Imsai, apple
Pineapple clone.
Also someone may know what a Commodore MSD
super disk is listed.
vendor is "fdbruce"
one listing number is
170045443608
LNW auctions for parts end today. others are out
as far as a week. (Today is Wednesday@ 418pst)
FWIW, the transit of Mercury ended a bit ago.
Jim
On 11/9/06, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
>
> In article <20061108022926.45215.qmail at web61017.mail.yahoo.com>,
> Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > --- Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Guilty as charged, Sir! And by definition, that
> > > takes me out of the
> > > category of the lowly user :-).
> >
> > A full confession is in order.
>
> Um, let's see... $350 for a Beehive terminal.
> $1200 for a lot of Tektronix terminals :-)
> $500 for a PDP-11/03 w/peripherals
>
> I think those are the only ones where I broke the $200 barrier.
$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.
At least the SPARC was an investment in my future (my SPARC experience
was directly responsible for getting me my first trip to the South
Pole in 1996). The others were just toys.
-ethan
>
>Subject: Re: New monitors on old machines
> From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:27:53 -0700
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>Fred Cisin wrote:
>
>>
>> 1) X10 (quite a bit more than 10 yrs old, controllable by TRS80)
>> 2) train your dog how to work a light switch
>> 3) switch with delay
>> 4) auxiliary lighting in the hallway
>>
>5) Sleep on the sofa :)
>6) Night light
>
7) Three way switch at the other enough of the hall.
Allison
--- Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> snip <<
>
> Fine, but how many qualify for the uber-nerd
> category
> (I mean how much more of a nerd is there then
> someone
> who didn't get enough of this crappola when it was
> current LOL LOL).
> Ok, but let's be specific. Who has spent >$200 fo
r
> a
> piece of equipment, software, hardware,
> paraphenalia,
> whatever, that was at least 15 years old? I want t
o
> say 20+, but let's make it easy. And not for
> work/profit...for umm, pleasure (?). I for one
> qualify. oi
>
Hmmm... I spent about $400 (err.. $200 USD and
$200 AUD) on 60 issues of 80 Microcomputing.
But that probably doesn't count as it's 60
items (magazines) instead of just one.
My other expensive purchases don't count as
they were all made in the last decade.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
A box surfaced at CHM yesterday with documentation on some mid-80s
donations. They would often include small items in the folder for the
artifact, and I was plesantly surprised that all of the documentation that
came from John Blankenbaker's KENBAK-1 donation was there. I've scanned the
brochure, hardware and programming manuals and still need to do the lab
manual. All up on bitsavers.org/pdf/kenbak.
Erik, if you happen to have the parts list in the docs you have, that would
be useful, since the schematics don't give component values for the passive
components.
Henk wrote...
> "?CP didn't start". I already knew that this is the
> typical bus hang condition,
Yup it is, seems you fixed it with the G7273
> However, ... besides the DC ON light, the RUN light
> stays ON too. I am sure the RUN light should go OFF.
Disclaimer... I'm new to these machines, the below is a newbies guesses :)
Perhaps your M7098 (UBI) module is set to autoboot from one of the proms
upon powerup, and that's why it comes up in run mode. This is a personal
preference thing, but I never have a machine autoboot to anything other than
the console emulator. I then always select the boot device by hand. Many
people instead set the switches on the UBI to attempt a boot from a
particular device upon powerup. This may be why you power on in run mode. I
would suggest that you look at the 10 position dip switch on the UBI and set
1,2, and 7 on and all the rest off. Then power up and see if you dont get
just the console prompt.
> and nothing more, no ">>>" prompt anymore!
>
> Also, the FAULT lamp on the RL02 drive stays ON.
If I was to make a newbie guess... you have a problem with your RL02
subsystem (drive, cable, or controller) and your UBI is perhaps set to
autoboot the DL prom. So when you power it on it attempts to boot the RL02
and hangs because of another problem. Setting the switches as above would
identify this possibility. If it then comes up to the CONSOLE prompt
correctly, you can at least know it's time to zero in on the RL02 subsystem.
Jay
I haven't seen anything about VCF yet, so thought I would put down a few
comments.
It was a fun time as usual at VCF, and I met a lot of interesting people there.
I got a chance to put some faces with names, and that is always a lot of fun.
The majority of my time was spent taking care of my vendor booth, and so I
didn't take a lot of time to spend in other areas.
One of the neat additions was the kit building workshops. Several people got
their Apple I replica kits signed by Woz.
It seemed like the number of vendors and exhibitors were down, but the number of
people attending were up. One of the exhibits I liked was the Apple Lisa. The
exhibitor, who goes by Lisa :), was very knowledgeable and I learned a number of
things from her regarding collecting Lisas.
For those that don't know me, I do have a perverted sense of humor. I had
brought a Chisholm computer that I think might be a prototype of the first IBM
battery operated portable (later licensed to Olivetti) to see if anyone knew
anything about it. Evan will hopefully be doing an interview with the company
president, and I mainly brought it for him to see. But after watching people
ignore it, I put a $2000 price tag on it ... and that got it a little more
attention :). But people still didn't ask about it though they took more notice
of it. And no, I don't think it is worth anywhere near that much money.
I was talking to Sellam, and it would have been a good place to at least mention
the Vintage Market Place for selling/trading/buying/etc. vintage computer stuff.
And I also think this and Eric's listservers should also have been mentioned. If
we are to help build this hobby, it might be a good idea to let people know
where to get more information :).
