test-drb September 2007

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by fire＠dls.net

I am not certain how to tell which model this is. It has square control box which sit under printer. Weighs a LOT. This is a thermal tranfer printer. I am putting it up. I played with it a little last week to verify that it works. Supplies will probably be difficult to get for it, but it does come with some. If no one wants it, I will recycle it. If there is interest I can give detailed listing of parts. Several paper trays, including 11 x 17. I live NW of Chicago, IL. Pick up is probably preferable to shipping. It weighs a LOT. Bradley

17 years, 3 months

decent used laptops

by Watzman＠neo.rr.com

I buy old laptops on E-Bay and refurbish them for resale, a few dozen per year. From your description, however, you professor friend should buy new. I just sold a couple of nice Pentium III laptops from 2002 (Toshiba 2805's), and they went for almost $200. But in my view, they are still too old to run most "current applications", and at $200 for those, a new laptop makes more sense than a used one. In July I bought a brand new Gateway MT6711 at Best Buy for $499, no rebates, straight out deal. This is a dual core Pentium laptop with a 15" widescreen display, a 160GB hard drive, a dual layer DVD burner and a Gigabyte of memory, with Vista Home Premium. There are a LOT of very good laptop deals this week. I think that the deals available for $499 to $649 are good enough to make buying an older used laptop not worthwhile in terms of value. I don't know for sure what he had in mind price wise, but he can get a pretty nice new machine for about $500, and anything that "will run current applications" in a way that you would want to run them will probably be $300-$350 or more for a used machine. A machine with no warranty and unknown history. Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:59:20 -0700 From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> Subject: Re: decent used laptops To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <p0624083ec31f49e8d526(a)[192.168.1.199]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" At 4:00 PM -0700 9/25/07, David Griffith wrote: >A professor has asked me where one can find decent used laptops. That is, >he needs something close enough to the bleeding edge where he can run >current applications, but far enough away that he won't have to pay much.

17 years, 3 months

Old mini computer (B80)

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> It's definitely an interesting beast. I > have no experiance with Burroughs machines, but still > I'm really tempted. I would be a good thing to save. I think RSC/RI has one as well (W.D. would know for sure) Also, no software has been archived for this machine, so any surviving copies would be a good thing.

17 years, 3 months

cctalk Digest, Vol 49, Issue 65

by dm561＠torfree.net

Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:26:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Roger Ivie <rivie at ridgenet.net> Subject: Re: Old mini computer >On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Mr Ian Primus wrote: >> I am about 200 miles away. I looked up the area code >> too, and I emailed her - she sent me some pictures of >> the machine. It's definitely an interesting beast. I >> have no experiance with Burroughs machines, but still >> - I'm really tempted. >I have no experience with the B80, but used a B800 for a couple >of years in high school. I think the B80 is a modernized, snazzy >B800. <snip> Ummm, not really; they were slightly different lines, the B800 being the smallest of the "real" computers (successor to the B700) with a separate processor cabinet and somewhat more power, more suited to running multiple terminals (although the console was essentially a B80/L9000 with no innards). The B80 (and later the B90) marked Burroughs' transition away from ledger cards to disks (either 8" floppies or 14" cartridges as used on the B800) and was essentially the successor and replacement of the L series single-user integrated accounting computers. The B80 and B800 were priced differently and aimed at slightly different markets, although they did share some peripherals and the system software (CMS, CANDE etc.) mike

17 years, 3 months

Motorola S-record converter source for new project

by robertlp.mounier＠9online.fr

Hello, On internet I found a chat where you write about Lilbug.asm. Could you please help me to findinformation about it. Many years ago I used to work with 6801L1 coming with LILbug monitor. Today I still have few pieces, but I no longer have any documentation about the monitor. Could you help me to find an user manual of the LILbug or more simply the list and syntax for the commands and addresses of the routines (like conversion Hexa-Ascii and so.). In advance many thanks for your answer.

17 years, 3 months

decent used laptops

by feldman.r＠comcast.net

>Message: 13 >Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:23:51 -0700 >From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> >Subject: Re: decent used laptops <snip> >$800 for a T40p or T42. >http://www.budcom.com/html/hi_end_laptops.html <snip> > Zane Just got a new TigerDirect (www.tigerdirect.com) catalog -- refurbished T42 (512MB RAM & 40GB HD) $600, T40 $500. Bob

17 years, 3 months

TENEX MW705-D PS for Commodore 128

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

As luck would have it, after purchasing a repairable PS for my C64 on eBay on Sunday, then I was given a TENEX MW705-D PS for the Commodore 128 on Monday. I'm curious, it has two power cables on it, one is the 5-pin plug for the C128, the other is a 4-pin plug, what is the 4-pin plug for? Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

17 years, 3 months

decent used laptops

by evan＠snarc.net

Couple of years ago, I paid around $350 for a refurbished P3 Thinkpad, directly from IBM.com ... even came with a warranty. I think Acer, Dell, Gateway, HP, and Lenovo all do the same thing on their web sites.

17 years, 3 months

Olivetti TES 501 in Concord CA area

by billdeg＠degnanco.com

Please contact the person below if interested Subj: Date: 9/25/2007 8:31:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: pcarmel AT sbcglobal.net Dear Sirs: I have an antique one line display word processor. It is an Olivetti TES 501. I paid $9000.00 for it in the late 70's. I would like to give it to someone in the Concord California area. Can you help me? Mel

17 years, 3 months

Unknows S-100 System

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: Re: Unknows S-100 System > From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net> > Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:44:57 -0400 > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > >On Saturday 22 September 2007 19:35, Barry Watzman wrote: >> All commercial software used 8080 instructions, > >Well, no. Two that I know of that did require a z80 were Turbo Pascal and >Mix C. > >-- What I wrote something similar I used the word "most" as I knew there was some CP/M software that required z80. However from a business user perspective most of the deireable and likely used software like word preocessors, spreadsheets and databases 8080 was just fine save for speed and the 8085 solved that. Also the 8085 was more of a bridge than the ultimate application cpu. Allison

17 years, 3 months

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test-drb September 2007