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!
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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
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
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
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
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.
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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"
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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>
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>
> 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)
> 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
>
> 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
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 :)
