The short rack I advertised as a freebie this weekend has been claimed.
Thanks much.
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Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m
"If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"
> gave them to a friend in HPCC who scanned them and burns the CD.
And after going around with you about this for six months it was
established that this was the ONLY way to get copies of your drawings.
After examining the results of his work, I would suggest that your
friend should learn how to CORRECTLY scan hand-drawn line art.
I will not make the mistake of buying later versions of his disc
and should have known better from seeing what he had done to
your drawings on the earlier version of the CD-R.
>From people emailing me off-list, I had interest in about 20-25 terminals.
So I went to the ebay seller to work a deal.
Apparently there has been a two prong effect - 1) The first few terminals he
sold on ebay went quickly and for high dollar, so he now suspects all 50 of
them will go for that price.... and 2) many of the people who emailed me
off-list about a group purchase apparently also emailed the ebay guy
directly (and one of you bought one from him)... so suddenly he thinks
there's a huge interest and is now less inclined to make a group purchase
deal.
So here's the result... I told the guy to go ahead and keep selling them one
at a time on ebay, and as soon as he hits the inevitable point after 5 or 6
units that they suddenly stop selling because he's flooded the market, to
give me a call. Then I'll ask again if there's interest in a group purchase,
but the group will inevitably be much smaller.
Jay
I've decided to reclaim some of the space in my shop, so I've listed some of my excess items on eBay. If anyone is interested, go check it out under user wacarder. I have listed a PDP-8/E with DSD 440 drive and interface card, PDP-11/20, PDP-11/45, PDP-11/34a, an 11/50 front panel, an 11/45 front panel, an ASR-33, a Tektronix vector graphics terminal, some RK05 drives, literature and marketing brochures, and various other items. It was a tough decision to decide to sell these, but most of these are items that I will probably never get around to restoring. My shop had reached maximum capacity and I need the space to do other stuff.
Just kidding about the disk of course .
But I now have a mint condition EC-1 and was wondering :
- if an operations manual is available, online or as a copy.
( i only have the assembly manual, am willing to pay for the
operation manual )
- any source for the plugins ( the plastic bits, R and C are not so much
a problem ) ?
- Is it just my impression, or is any problem I can tackle with an EC-1
much faster handled with a pocketcalculator or a slide rule?
The wiring on my EC1 is lethal : i plan to mount a IEC socket so I can
use regular modern-day earthed mains cable. Sacrilege or common sense ?
Jos Dreesen
This message is being posted to three groups: Classiccmp, TekScopes, and TestGear.
I have available, FREE for LOCAL PICKUP ONLY in Kent, Washington, a nice 3-foot fully-enclosed 19" equipment rack made for HP. It has the maroon-colored 'Hewlett Packard SYSTEMS' logo plate on the front, so I'm assuming it once held stuff relating to the HP System 9xxx series.
The thing's on wheels, so it is relatively easy to move. However, you will need at least an SUV or pickup truck to comfortably transport it. I was using it as a computing test stand for many moons, and it is now no longer needed due to equipment consolidation. I'll even throw in a free rack-mounted dot-matrix printer with it (I believe it emulates an Epson FX80 or similar).
The FIRST PERSON to drop me an E-mail saying "Yes, I want it! Where do I find you and when can I pick it up?" will get the thing. I will post a note once it is claimed. I'm crunched for storage space, so I need to move it out AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
Please help me to give this nice bit of electronics furniture a good home.
If I do not receive any responses by this time Sunday evening (May 7th, 18:40 PDT), I will assume no one wants it and will leave it out in our driveway with a 'FREE!' sign on it (weather permitting -- I'm not going to let it get soaked).
Thanks much.
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Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m
"If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"
> Could you provide a scan of this manual please!!!!
The only chance you have of obtaining any printed document
>from Tony is to pay him to go to a place that has a copier.
I don't think anyone has ever been able to successfully
have this happen, though.
Ebay... item 8805060713
Extremely extremely handy for working on 7905/6/20 drives. This one has
broken switches but those are fixable. Also includes the head alignment PCA
and some of the tools (but it's clearly not the full offline test kit).
I don't want to bid on this, I already have two of 'em. But I will bid on it
if no one wants it just to save it from being scrapped. If someone has these
type of drives, you should buy this.
Jay
I had a DEC VT100 that was made around 1980 that would crash when you sent
it a certain escape sequence. You would have to power cycle the terminal to
recover. Newer units did not have this problem (this was around 1985). When
we discovered this we would send this sequence to peoples terminals to see
if they crashed.
I guess DEC did not get the terminal emulation correct at first.
Michael Holley
www.swtpc.com/mholley
> All I can say is that I've had so many buygy PC terminal emulators that
> I'm darn glad to haev the real terminals still in operation. I remember
> one so-called VT100 emulator for Windows (this would be about 10 years
> ago) that gaev a very interesting display when used with EDT on a VMS
> box...
>
> When I was doing my Ph.D. I kept an old VT100 running (I had the
> prints...) simply because it was a lot more reliable (in terms of getting
> the emulation right) than any PC product.
>
> -tony
>
>
The gentleman below wants to give away his PC's Limited 286 PC. Anyone interested should contact him directly.
----- Original Message -----
From: C.S. ( Steve ) Kincaid
To: menadeau at comcast.net
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 8:46 AM
Subject: Dell PC's Limited
I have a Dell 286 PC's Limited that I purchased in 1987. It has a math chip. We used it in preparing income tax returns.
I have been unable to get Dell to answer my emails, so I am turning to you. Is there a chance anyone would want this PC? I am running out of office space and need to find a home for it. I have the books and invoice for it. We haven't run it in several years, but it worked the last time we used it.
Thanks,
Steve Kincaid, CPA
Magnolia, Arkansas
870-234-1500, ext. 303
870-235-1143, fax
skincaid at cskincaidcpa.com
