test-drb January 2009

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Need assistance in Land O' Lakes Florida (near Tampa)

by sellam＠vintagetech.com

Someone in Land O' Lakes, Florida wants to give me a MacTV, which I really want, but they want to utilize the packing services of the UPS store, which usually sucks and is overpriced. Is someone in that area who would be willing to go retrieve the item, pack it to my specs, and send it off? I'll be paying for packing materials and the shipping of course, and will owe a big favor (or perhaps trade for something that you may want). Please contact me directly if you can help. Thanks! -- 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, 11 months

thinking of selling my PDP-11/23+

by charlesmorris800＠centurytel.net

Now that I have a working PDP-11/23+ system, I find (as I should have known from many similar projects) that the "fun" was really in accumulating the pieces and getting it working. I don't really have anything I want to DO with it (although I suppose that is the whole point of classic computing :) but I have run ADVENT. anyway I was wondering if someone else would be interested. In brief, it's an 11/23+ KDF-11BA CPU (the chassis front panel is embossed "11/03" though) with max 4 Mb RAM, two RL02's, VT220 and a 16-line serial card. Has a pack with RT-11 v5.mumble up and running. I have what appears to be a TSX-Plus pack but don't know how to generate a working system. "Corporate cabinet" in decent shape. Paint on the RL02 fronts has seen better days. Can send pics this weekend. It's in West Plains, MO (65775), about 200 mi southwest of St. Louis, 100 miles southeast of Springfield, MO. If I could find someone to help me get it down the stairs I could deliver it to St. Louis (or I could disassemble it if necessary and carry the pieces down) since I work there every week. Let me know if there's any interest - contact me offlist and make me a reasonable offer. I hate to see it just gathering dust and my PDP-8/A system (two RL02's and ASR33 Teletype, running OS/8) is enough vintage computing hardware for now :) -Charles

15 years, 11 months

Hams (was Re: thinking of selling my PDP-11/23+)

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ <gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 15:04 -0200, Alexandre Souza wrote: > >> Pu1BZZ Alexandre :) > > Wait, wait, you're another radio amateur? Not surprised there's a > crossover with classic computing. Wonder who else? N8TVD Technician _with_ code (not that it matters anymore) -ethan

15 years, 11 months

Japanese pc emulators

by brad＠heeltoe.com

I found this home page while looking at qemu for windows. Looks like he's done a lot of work on Japanese pc emulators. Perhaps this is old news. http://homepage3.nifty.com/takeda-toshiya -brad

15 years, 11 months

hams on classiccmp

by shoppa＠trailing-edge.com

N3QE, formerly KA0BTD. Got my novice ticket at age 10. I was basically inactive for 20+ years from entering college until 2007 when I started dragging out the old Heathkits from my childhood and hanging wires in the trees. Ironically, it was computers and girlfriends in college that distracted me from radio; looking back I can see that compared to ham radio they were a waste of time :-). Especially in winter I hang out on 80M CW many evenings and manage to do something for many of the big CW contests/events. Even though I've got a lot of old rigs, my preferred rig is a lowly HW-16 and my antenna is a 130 foot doublet hanging between two trees, 90 feet up, and fed by ladder line. Tim

15 years, 11 months

offer: old book

by rtellason＠verizon.net

Got this book here, maybe somebody would care to take it off my hands and offer a little something for it? Title is "Infor World PC Secrets", by Caroline M. Halliday. Copyright date is 1992. There seems to be a couple of 5.25" floppies in a sealed pouch inside the back cover. Front cover says a whole lot that I won't detail here but includes "Covers DOS 2-5 & Windows (I'm assuming they mean 3.1 here), MCA, EISA, 286, 386, & 486 PCs". Anyone interested please feel free to contact me offlist. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin

15 years, 11 months

Printer ribbons

by roger.holmes＠microspot.co.uk

On 17 Jan, 2009, at 17:25, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote: > > Message: 9 > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:33:05 -0800 > From: Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> > Subject: Printer ribbons > To: " (cctalk at classiccmp.org)" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > Message-ID: <FF6AB92D97A23A409701CDBF66F03FCD2A56EE05 at 505fuji> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > When I acquired my PDP-11/34, I also received a Centronics 503 > printer, along with an entire case of ribbons for said printer. > They have a part number of 63002293-5001. It's a black nylon ribbon > on two spools. These are NOS. I haven't been able to identify > anything that uses them - and I mean anything, because I can't find > anything on the Web about the Centronics 503, either. > > Does anyone have any leads on this? I'd like to find that these > ribbons are worth something to someone, because I'll never use more > than a few in my lifetime but I don't want to just trash them. > Thanks -- Ian Googling the part number says they are 1 inch wide by 36 yards and fit Centronics 101,101A,101R,102,102A and103. Stangely no mention of a 503. I was checking in case they fitted my ASR33 but it uses narrower ones. I see lots of Teletype paper and paper tape on eBay but never ASR/KSR/ RO 33 ribbons. Probably easy to get if you know what to ask the suppliers for. Roger Holmes (In England)

15 years, 11 months

hams on classiccmp

by marvin＠west.net

> Wonder who else? I'm VERY active with ARDF (Amateur Radio Direction Finding.) Check out the www.homingin.com So. Cal results and the US ARDF team to give you an idea. I got my extra only so I didn't have to worry about the frequency when putting on 80M hunts. Marvin, KE6HTS

15 years, 11 months

ebay idiots

by ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk

> > I had an interesting episode recently. I was interested in an item that a > surplus trader had, in fact he had 3 of them. The items were being offered > as Buy It Now with free shipping in the US. I asked what he would charge to > ship to the UK, the response was $30 *each* on top of the Buy It Now price > which obviously must have already included an allowance for shipping, with > no apparent option even to combine the shipping. Without knowing what the items are, there's no way I could know how much it would actually cost to ship them to the UK. It may be that $30 is a reasonable _difference_ betweeen the UK and US shipping costs. The things that annoy me are sellers who have _ridiculously_ high shipping costs. There's a guy who's got some manuals for sale -- fairly thin manuals, no binders or anything like that. His shipping charge to the UK is something over \pounds 60.00. Now, I relaise that filling in tyhe customs form for overseas shipping takes time, and that it's reasonable to have to pay for that. But, darn it, that charge is excessive compared to the shipping charged by other sellers for much larger/heavier/more delicate items. As with others here, I get annoyed when things are not packed adeguately and arrive damaged. I would be happy to pay more for proper packing on a rare device. And I wish sellers would (a) get in touch if there's a delay in sending out the package, and (b) would actually let me know when they send it. If I am not in to receive the parcel, it gets taken back to the post office or sorting office then (a) I have to go and collect it and (b) it appears such packages are much more likely to be damaged. So I want to be in when it's delivered. On the other hand, I don't want to have to wait around for a parcel that's not even been sent yet. A short e-mail from the seller 'I sent it on $date' would be much appreciated. -tony

15 years, 11 months

Hams (was Re: thinking of selling my PDP-11/23+)

by charlesmorris800＠centurytel.net

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:44:19 -0600 (CST), you wrote: >>>> Pu1BZZ Alexandre :) >>> >>> Wait, wait, you're another radio amateur? Not surprised there's a >>> crossover with classic computing. Wonder who else? WB3JOK since 1976... now /0 in Missouri. Yes, 75m is a belchfartfest sometimes worse than CB, but there are plenty of other HF bands as the cycle starts to recover... also still some interesting nets on 40m. Check out the 72 Chew (www.ragchewers.net) on 7272 KHz :) 73 -Charles (guess no one wants the 11/23, maybe I'll try fleabay :)

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test-drb January 2009