test-drb December 2007

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Mike Quinn Electronics -- one last chance

by brian＠quarterbyte.com

Hi Folks, As many of you know, the venerable Mike Quinn Electronics in San Leandro, CA (down by the Oakland Airport) closed last Saturday with virtually no advance notice. If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, you know Mike Quinn is the one of the very last of the nitty gritty electronics salvage shops left, with an emphasis on gritty. I stopped by today, and mentioned to Maurice, the owner, that a lot of people would have liked to have had one last shot at a visit. So, he has extented an invitation to y'all to visit next week, Tuesday through Friday February 7-10, 2006, during normal business hours, for one last shopping spree. He is trying to find a buyer for the stock in the store. This is almost certainly the last chance to visit. If you can, it's worth doing whatever you have to do to make the pilgrimage. Buy some stuff to thank Maurice for keeping it going all this time. There are zillions of connectors and components, heaps of transformers and power supplies, scads of cables and keyboards and monitors and other PC junk, a jet fighter console or two, a couple of early 80's HP desktop computers (the ones with built-in BASIC, can't recall the model numbers), lots of relays, and much more, all arranged in an archaeologically interesting and un-seismically-safe way. If you need it, they have it, and they might even be able to find it. Mike Quinn Electronics 401 McCormick Street (at the corner of Adams and McCormick) San Leandro, CA 94577 Brian

16 years, 7 months

TRADIC

by evan＠snarc.net

A few days ago, someone asked about TRADIC. Tonight I stumbled upon a mention of this computer on page 204 of the book "Crystal Fire" (Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, 1997). The authors wrote, "In January 1954 Whippany engineers built a fully transistorized computer for the Air Force. Called TRADIC (for TRAnsistorized DIgital Computer), it used 700 point-contact transistors and more than 10,000 germanium crystal rectifiers in its circuits. Capable of performing a million logical operations every second, TRADIC was the first completely solid-state computer; it approached the speed of computers based on vacuum tubes." By "Whippany" they meant the Whippany, N.J. location of Bell Labs.

16 years, 7 months

QIC drives need a home!

by jeffj＠panix.com

I'm cleaning off my workbench and don't need this paperweight: Archive 5945L-3 QIC drive with daughter-board. It's a 60 mb drive but the card had no useful numbers. I suspect it's a QIC-02 to QIC-36 adapter. If anyone's still using such things, let me know, it's available! Jeff Jonas jeffj at panix.com

16 years, 7 months

free SGI Origin 2000

by ingrammp＠earthlink.net

Well, they may not be exactly "classic" but they were interesting machines in their time... I have two (2) SGI Origin 2000 systems.... It's an 8 node, 195Mhz R10000, 512Mbyte, CD, 4Gbyte disk.. Has two HVD (high voltage differential as opposed to the current LVD ).. interfaces on each... and a PCI card adapter.. and a bunch of cables for connecting external disks and whatnot. Both are free for the taking and are located in Tucson..., and both were working when last turned off... stored in an air-conditioned corporate office. I'll help you load one or both onto your truck !! Mike

16 years, 7 months

12" CRT for cost of shipping

by frustum＠pacbell.net

I listed a CRT on ebay and received no bids. If anybody in the US would like to pay for shipping, you can have it. I was told it was a replacement CRT for a TRS-80 (model 3 or 4, I guess) >from the guy who gave it to me. It is unused and thus has no burn in. Search ebay for auction #120193025277. Or you can view a greater variety of full scale images here: http://home.pacbell.net/frustum/ebay/tube/ Even if you don't have a trs-80 with a dead tube, perhaps you can turn it into a cool large screen vectrex instead.

16 years, 7 months

Apple external SCSI drives

by colin.jensen＠gulfair.com

Good Morning Mark Have you had any luck or info on the Ricoh RH5500 drive. Thanks Colin Official Airline and Sponsor of the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix 2008 www.gulfair.com ================================================================================================================= This is an e-mail from Gulf Air Co. It is privileged and confidential and is intended only for the individual or entity named above and contains information that is or may be confidential, non-public or legally privileged. Any retention, dissemination or distribution of this message other than to its intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, kindly reply back to the sender immediately and delete the original message and all its copies. =================================================================================================================

16 years, 7 months

any one have Mini-Micro Systems magazines & digests?

by g-wright＠att.net

-------------- Original message from "Paxton Hoag" <innfoclassics at gmail.com>: -------------- > One of my favorite reference magazines was Mini-Micro Systems which > published from 1976 to 1989 by the Cahners Publications. They printed > 10 issues a year along with a Spring and Fall Peripherals Digest. I > think Starting in June 1984 they printed a Mini-Micro computers > special issue. > > I have one copy left, the 1983 Fall Peripherals digest. It is what I > was looking for when Jerry was trying to identify the CDC/QD drive he > had. > > Unfortunately the model numbers and what is printed on the drive don't > correspond (and from what I remember never did) > Hi, Paxton well you might be right on that. I have looked high and low and seem to keep coming up with different numbers for the drives. Here is what is listed on Mfaris site. for CDC and MPI (both names are on the label). http://www.mfarris.com/floppy/mpi.html http://www.mfarris.com/floppy/cdc.html - jerry

16 years, 7 months

Some old ad pins

by silent700＠gmail.com

A while back a friend gave me a big tub of pins his father was going to toss out. His dad did sales and marketing for Zenith, I believe, and had these pins from a CES show in the early 80s. I've laid them all out and taken some pics: http://flickr.com/photos/chiclassiccomp/sets/72157603430282899/ There are many recognizable names in there, some rare ones (Esprit!) and some I have no idea what they are. Flickr users who can name some of the oddballs feel free to add Flickr notes to the pics to ID them. You'll probably want to view the pics full size, or at least larger than they display by default. j -- silent700.blogspot.com Retrocomputing and collecting in the Chicago area: http://chiclassiccomp.org

16 years, 7 months

any one have Mini-Micro Systems magazines & digests?

by innfoclassics＠gmail.com

One of my favorite reference magazines was Mini-Micro Systems which published from 1976 to 1989 by the Cahners Publications. They printed 10 issues a year along with a Spring and Fall Peripherals Digest. I think Starting in June 1984 they printed a Mini-Micro computers special issue. I have one copy left, the 1983 Fall Peripherals digest. It is what I was looking for when Jerry was trying to identify the CDC/QD drive he had. Unfortunately the model numbers and what is printed on the drive don't correspond (and from what I remember never did) They have sections on drives, in fact they have separate sections listing 8", 5 1/4" and Micro Drives. The 5 1/4 " drive listing has 39 makers of internal and external 5 1/4" drives, including simple specs; sides, capacity, tracks, TPI, access time, transfer rate, dimensions and model numbers. Similarly for hard drives of all sizes (14" to 3") and removable cart drives. They also had a great reference section on Terminals and Printers. They are great reference magazines for collectors or for just identifying equipment. The collection is one of the things I miss the most, losing them in a house fire. Doing an Internet search I discovered WorldCat.org which indicates there is a Microfiche set at Oregon State University in Corvallis. I will have to go look. So does anyone have a set or the Microfiche? I think anyone who has a museum should think of looking for this magazine, especially the product digests for reference. -- Paxton Hoag Astoria, OR USA

16 years, 7 months

list is open

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

List is back open for traffic. Let's try to keep it more on-topic please. Jay

16 years, 7 months

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