test-drb January 2009

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by michaelgreen42＠comcast.net

Well I couldn't get rid of too many of these whole and I need to move soon so I'm parting them out. Should be some memory, power supplies, brackets, drives, something worth it to somebody. Send me an email telling me what you are looking for and what you'll pay. Not looking to make a killing here just make it worth my time. PS: I don't think there are any very interesting pds cards just standard video ones.

15 years, 6 months

MGE EPS 2000 UPS available

by trovere＠thevalleyscw.tv

Do you still have the eps-2000 UPS ?

15 years, 6 months

Free: AT&T 5620 Terminals

by silent700＠gmail.com

I've got four of these classic terminals, but no keyboards and no mice. They are free for pickup in NW Chicago suburbs (60074.) They are in fair to rough shape. I have not powered any of them on. I need to reclaim the space they're taking up and would really rather not see these classics scrapped. Here's one in use with an AT&T 3B2 system: http://stat-graphics.org/movies/gifs/dyndisp85a.gif

15 years, 6 months

hams on classiccmp

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

-- "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote: >> Alas my expeerience suggests the reverse. Back when computers were >> expensive, and chips were expensive, the manufacutrers took the >>trouble >> to put all sorts of protectinon in their machines to protect said >> expensive decices in the event of a failure. Now they don't bother. > >I would suspect that a younger crop of engineers coming up might have >some bearing on this too. :-) Actually, I would be more likely to suspect the current crop of engineering *managers* as a more likely cause (both pointy-haired and not). "My gawd, boy, those extra bits add $0.10 to our build cost! Do we really need that for the product to meet spec?" ____________________________________________________________ Protect your hands with high quality gloves. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/PnY6rw1Jw8LLo6ya1s8LS5UU5BTSFgZ…

15 years, 6 months

LMI Lambda in San Diego needs temporary home

by sellam＠vintagetech.com

I have an LMI Lambda in San Diego that is waiting for me to come get it. The problem is that it's in a storage locker and the person holding it needs to close out the locker due to costs. I will be going down to SD in a few weeks for business but the LMI needs to be moved now. Is there someone who can go get it and temporarily store it until I can get down there? If not, it'll be lost. If someone can assist, please contact me directly. If it won't be feasible for me to retrieve it myself, I will want it to go to someone who can take it in. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

15 years, 6 months

the purge continues: free trs-80 stuff from austin, tx

by frustum＠pacbell.net

There are two categories here. First is stuff free for the price of shipping. Pick it up and it is 100% free. I don't want to ship each document to a different address. Hopefully someone wants it all. TRS-80 micro computer technical reference handbook (this is for the model I) Expansion Interface Hardware manual TRS-80 Technical Manual Troubleshooting (For Radio Shack Service Centers Only) TRS-80 Model III Service Manual TRS-80 Model 4 Service Manual TRS-80 Model 100 Technical Reference Manual LDOS Quarterly, not complete, mostly copies, but not all, 81-84 Some floppy disk alignment programs and Dysan alignment disks TRS-80 Assembly Language Programming (1st ed), Bill Barden --- The next category is free, but *must* be picked up at my house. If I cared to spend the time to find a box and pack it properly, I'd put it on ebay and get my $50 or whatever. This is a TRS-80 4P in *great* shape. It has very little yellowing as it has been in a leatherette carrying case for the past 20 years. I recently took it apart and tweaked the trimmer cap so 80 column display mode is solid again. Both drives work great, and I don't know of any defects. It comes with an original in the binder TRSDOS 6.0.2 manual, a Montezuma Micro CP/M manual, and about 100 floppies. Not all the floppies are usable on this system; some came from model I systems, or were configured for double sided drives (this machine has only single sided floppies, which was the norm for the 4P). I hate to give it up, as I spent a couple years messing around one Model IIIs in high school, so come and get it before I change my mind. :-)

15 years, 6 months

uIEC/SD == AWESOME!

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

The uIEC/SD I bought from Jim Brain was delivered Friday night (USPS was actually unable to deliver for several days in our area). My mail is currently going to a different location than we're living, so I picked it up yesterday, and retrieved my customized C64 from storage, and got everything plugged in last night (this was the first time we'd been able to get our car out of the driveway in over two weeks). Once I figured out how to use it, all I can say it is seriously cool, way better than my MMC-Replay for dealing with D64 images, and it was a lot cheaper! I'm even able to use it with the MMC-Replay plugged in so I have my Ethernet connection. With the MMC-Replay I was only able to get one or two D64 images to work, with the uIEC most I've tried have worked. I've been playing "Temple of Apshai" all day and having a blast! :-) Now to decide if I put it in some sort of case, or if I mount it inside the C64 somehow. 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/ |

15 years, 6 months

FFS: Atari 1025 Printer box

by silent700＠gmail.com

The SX-64 box has been claimed. This is the next one up. Same deal, free for cost of shipping (I'll ship it in a larger box so the PO doesn't mar up the fine Atari graphics) from 60074. -- silent700.blogspot.com Retrocomputing and collecting in the Chicago area: http://chiclassiccomp.org

15 years, 6 months

Oxidation

by brian＠quarterbyte.com

> Roger Holmes wrote: > > A couple of [keypunch drums] have come up on eBay in the last five > years and both went for silly money which to me means there are > more keypunches than drums. That's one interpretation, but it just considers the scarceness factor. You also have to figure in the saneness factor. If you want a punched card era memorabilis, a drum is a heck of a lot easier to ship, store and display than a whole keypunch machine.

15 years, 6 months

FFS: SX-64 Box

by silent700＠gmail.com

Nope, not "box" as in slang for "computer" or "machine." This is just the cardboard box (well ok, also the Styrofoam inserts and a plastic bag) that the SX-64 came in. No serious collector should be without one! Apparently, I'm not as serious as I thought, because I've got three SX-64s (each broken in some unique way) and I've decided the box takes up too much space. None of them matched the serial # on the box, anyway. So if anyone wants it, it's free for the cost of shipping from 60074 (or if you're local, come pick it up.) Please give it a home. Even though I've got to shrink my collection and reclaim storage space, I still can't let something as simple as an old cardboard box go to the landfill. -j -- silent700.blogspot.com Retrocomputing and collecting in the Chicago area: http://chiclassiccomp.org

15 years, 6 months

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