> For some reason I'm thinking about getting a Sparc 20.
> Does anyone have any lying around to trade?
I have one that is maxed out. It has everything you could
want in a SS20, incl. VSIMM. I have never booted it, but I
got it directly from when it was retired.
I'd mostly be interested in trades.
Here's a video of a 1985 US TV computer show that I believe was broadcast on PBS stations. Products reviewed are Atari 800, Commodore 64, Amiga IBM PC Emulator, Commodore Amiga, Atari 520, STNEO Paint:
http://www.archive.org/details/Amigaand1985
Found this accidentally and I'll bet there are many more computer related videos on this site that would be interesting to watch. If you find some more, please post the links here.
Tonight, in a TV commercial for 800okcable.com, I noticed a Kaypro .... the
cable folks were making fun of the phone companies supposedly being behind
the times, as text in the scene said "1996".
> Also, I wish they'd do something more than show off paint programs...
> Still, interesting bits of history--thanks!
One of the things that annoyed me greatly at the time was the brand name bigotry of the pundits. You'd hear it all the time on Computer Chronicles. The Atari ST offered a price performance ratio way beyond anything else available at the time and yet these "experts" just couldn't get over the name "Atari." They didn't even realize that the Atari ST had been designed by Commodore engineers while the Commodore Amiga had been designed by Atari engineers, including the great Jay Miner and that it shouldn't matter anyway what the brand label is on superior, low cost hardware.
> But it's just a plain old 1/2 inch tape drive.
7 track
A 729 would be my least favorite choice for data recovery.
They must not have looked very hard at recovery services.
As much as I hate him, John Bordynuik has working high-quality
7 track equipment already working with high success rates.
> William Blair wrote:
> > Found this accidentally and I'll bet there are many more computer
> > related videos on this site that would be interesting to watch. If
> > you find some more, please post the links here.
> That would be a lot of links, since the entire Computer Chronicles
> series was donated to the Internet Archive.
Yep, I noticed that right after I sent the message. 560 shows.
The museum's been offered a reasonable archive set of Computer Shopper
magazines, but doesn't however really have the space to justify taking/keeping
them given the historical 'worth' and anticipated demand for them as reference
material.
Consideration's being given to just scanning them as an electronic-only
reference - question is, has this already been done by anyone? There seems
little sense in duplicating effort!
cheers
Jules
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I posted this over on the rescue list, but I figured it's probably close enough for here too, since I use these for classic machines. I'm looking for magneto-optical disk cartridges. Primarily the 3 1/2" versions, I use the 128mb disks for shuffleing data around between old machines, but I actually have a mix of drives - 128mb mostly, but also a 230mb and a 640mb drive. I also checked last might, and found the 600mb 5 1/4" drive I had forgotten about. Just no media for it.
I've been checking on eBay, and they turn up from time to time, and I actually just bought a few 128mb disks there. But mostly, the MO disks available tend to be the expensive, higher capacity disks that I can't use. These old, small ones rarely get listed, and I almost never see used ones. Or, when they do get listed, the shipping is wildly inflated. For example, I found an auction for 20 used 128mb disks. Flat rate $20 shipping. How it can possibly cost $20 to ship a small box of disks is beyond me. Likewise the BIN of $2 for five disks, with flat rate $12 shipping.
So, anyone have a good source of these critters? I remember buying a few boxes many years ago (back when the Zip drive was the great new thing) from an online media store, and paying about five bucks apiece for brand new 128mb cartridges. Surely the prices should have come down, but the the cheapest I can find them is $7 each. I'd really like to just buy some used cartridges, but I guess the used media market isn't what it was, I don't really even see used tapes much anymore.
So, anyone know of a source of 128mb, 230mb, 540mb or 640mb 3 1/2" disks, or the 600mb 5 1/4" disks?
-Ian
