test-drb August 2008

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FS: data books, Franklin Ace 1000 w/floppy drive, Seagate drive/PC controller card

by charlesmorris800＠centurytel.net

More junk coming to light in the barn. Another lot of data books from the 80's and early 90's. See picture. $6 plus actual (Media Mail) shipping from 65775. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2cqcz7s&s=4 The Franklin Ace 1000 (Apple II clone, but you probably already know that if you're interested :) has a "Microtek" parallel printer card and a single floppy drive, but no disk drive card or monitor so I can't test it. The power supply voltages are all good, it's clean inside, and the "ON" and keyboard "LOCK" LEDs are lit, but that's all I can tell. I did take the missing parts from my IIe over 20 years ago and booted it up (there's a DOS disk copy I made in the drive), but no guarantees after sitting in storage for that length of time! Manual included. No reasonable offer refused. (You pay shipping or can pick up in St. Louis). http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4ruw7p&s=4 http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2uducsn&s=4 Also a Seagate ST-277R drive (a whopping 65 MB), complete ST21R/22R controller card with instructions and cables. Again, this worked a very long time ago with a 386SX-40 system, IIRC. Probably has Win 3.1 on it, but I don't remember. Make an offer, it's just taking up space here and I hate to throw it out! http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2ypdn45&s=4 Please email me off-list if interested. thanks Charles

16 years, 1 month

DEC Robin - a belated thanks and anyone interested?

by jfk＠kuenzigbooks.com

A belated thanks to all who responded with their ideas about whether or not it is safe to power up these old machines. Since I just don't have the time to do it properly and make sure the machine is preserved as well as it could be, I'll entertain offers on it. I have a few photographs I can forward to anyone interested. If I don't get a reasonable offer (I'm selling for a friend) I'll just list it on the infernal ebay. I'd rather do something with someone here. I can ship (it's in the 2 original boxes) or pickup can be made here (Topsfield, MA). Please contact me offlist. Best, John Kuenzig (and nope, no Corvus interface or drive, sorry!)

16 years, 1 month

IBM displaywriter manuals with software and program disks

by jfk＠kuenzigbooks.com

Hi all - I received this message from one of our customers. Nancy has original manuals for the IBM Displaywriter (see her message below). If you are interested please contact Nancy directly at NKParadise at aol.com. If you do succeed in obtaining them, please let the list know its gone so she isn't bombarded. Best, John Kuenzig Bookseller That would be wonderful, John. Please do forward the info. Thanx, Nancy === Nancy - If you're ok with it, I'll forward your message to a classic computer list I belong to, and it is likely that someone there might need them. They would contact you directly in that case. Best, John NKParadise at aol.com wrote: > > *I have a complete/original set of manuals (10-12 of them) for the IBM > Displaywriter sold in the early 1980's -- before the Personal > Computer. I also have all the program disks (Textpack IV and > Reportpack) and some 8" floppies. Everything is in excellent > condition. Do you have a need for any of this? ... or an idea of > anyone who may?* > > *Nancy Paradise* > *561-744-8133* > *561-746-4848 X307* > *NKParadise at aol.com* <mailto:NKParadise at aol.com>

16 years, 1 month

manufacturer catalogues DEC and other tech reference

by jfk＠kuenzigbooks.com

Hi all - We've been accumulating various manufacturer catalogues for components, etc as we've bought large lots of engineering books out of houses. I've compiled a list of about 50 various items (DEC, TI, Sams, GE, RCA, Allied Radio, etc etc) with prices, etc. - if interested please send me a note offlist. Most are nominal (under $20, many less). Just want to move them to a good home and clear up some space without taking the time to list them online. Along those same lines, we were able to purchase some DEC manuals (about 10 boxes worth), most original DEC stuff, most of it Ultrix and VAX/VMS stuff, which I can also send to interested parties offlist. Best, John Kuenzig Bookseller jfk at kuenzigbooks.com Topsfield MA

16 years, 1 month

looking for Motorola PowerStack manuals, info, Any model

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

You'd probably have better luck locating an 88k AViiON. Many more were produced, with similar (VME) architecture. Documentation is scarce, but if you get the right model, there's some good info available. -- Steven M Jones <classiccmp at crash.com> wrote: Just to pile-on, a reminder that I'm interested in providing a home for an 88k-based Powerstack. With or without manuals. ;^) Thanks, --Steve. Berkeley, CA, USA ____________________________________________________________ Click here for great computer networking solutions! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3oHgMTIypdPVr76Uh5kJh7zjG…

16 years, 1 month

Ferguson Bigboard I - MK-82 (italian version)

by elazzerini＠interfree.it

Hi at all, i write to evidence my website about the computer board in object. The evidence is ONLY for to have more contacts and to exchange info to rebuild all possible especially around the italian version of the board. http://elazzerini.interfree.it/index.htm Regards Enrico Lazzerini - Pisa (Italy)

16 years, 1 month

Paper Tape Reader

by iamvirtual＠gmail.com

Does anyone know of a source for a [relatively] cheap paper tape reader suitable for reading standard DEC paper tapes? I have several paper tapes from a PDP-11/20 that I would like to read, and of course, share :-). Something like the OP-80 from Oliver Engineering would be suitable. Thanks. --barrym

16 years, 1 month

Bernoulli Box controller?

by derschjo＠msu.edu

I picked up a very old Iomega Bernoulli Box (labeled on the rear as "The Bernoulli Box," on the front as "Iomega Cartridge Disk Subsystem"), model CDS-PC/20. The chassis basically looks like a knockoff of the original IBM PC, even down to the red on/off switch on the rear right. Got a few 10mb cartridges with it, but no controller. Anyone have a PC controller for this thing they don't need? Any advice for cleaning it out before I try to load any cartridges? Thanks, Josh

16 years, 1 month

Dauphin DTR-1 (Near Tacoma)

by michaelgreen42＠comcast.net

I've got a Dauphin DTR-1 PDA type device. It includes all original stuff (as far as I can tell). Original boxes all in excellent shape. It even has the original display box the other 3 boxes sit in. Even has install floppies for windows 3.x and Dos. Must go soon, email if interested.

16 years, 1 month

Where to find memory ICs?

by trag＠io.com

Message: 3 Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:28:19 -0500 From: Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> Subject: Re: Where to find memory ICs? To: General at mail.mobygames.com, "Discussion at mail.mobygames.com":On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <489B7703.7050009 at oldskool.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Glen Slick wrote: >> I just want a few tubes of these to populate the board, I'm not looking >> for a box of 'em :-) Any pointers? > > www.unicornelectronics.com > 511000-100 $1.89 quanity 25-99 I want to use these to populate an Above Board from 2MB to 8MB, and that would require 6*9*1.89 = $102.06 for just 6MB of RAM. Does anyone know of a cheaper way to get DRAM? $100 just so I can add 6MB of RAM to a card doesn't seem right... I came to this discussion late, so apologies if I missed the point. However, in answer to your last question, I have found desoldering memory chips from old SIMMs to be a workable method. I wanted a bunch of 16M X 4 FPM DRAM and the cheapest way to get it was off of 128 MB 72 pin SIMMs which were selling for about $10 each when carefully shopped for on Ebay. Each SIMM holds 16 chips so the price was well under $1 per chip. Plus there were a handful on 16M X 1 chips on boards as well for parity. Anyway, your target memory chips might be cheaply available on old 30 pin or 72 pin SIMMs. The biggest obstacle would be a requirement for DIPs. Most SIMMs have SOJ chips on board, rather than DIPs. Jeff Walther

16 years, 1 month

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