Is anyone coming north through Piscataway, NJ who'd be willing to pickup a
small disk drive subsystem for me and transport it closer to Burlington,
VT? I could pick it up around Thanksgiving if it ended up between VT and
NYC.
TIA!
Steve
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I was recently given an HP1000 A900 which I don?t have time to do anything
with, so if someone wants it for the cost of shipping (it's big and heavy!),
contact me offline. It has a CPU and 2 memory cards as well as several I/O
cards (12005, 12009, 12040). It powers up and LEDs on the CPU card blink
but I have no way to test it further.
Richard
I've just found three boxes of what we used to call "broadlisting"
paper, ie 14.5" wide fanfold listing paper, music-ruled. Each box is
2000 sheets. All is free to a good home or homes, providing it is
picked up from here within a week or so. I'm in York, UK. Any takers?
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Network Manager
University of York
Ok, so it's stretching the definition of "computer" but it _does_ have a
BASIC programming cartridge and it IS classic (1978) so I think it
qualifies... Got me a Bally Astrocade that appears to have a dead I/O
chip. From the service manual, this is a custom chip listed as PN
"0066-117XX-XXYX"... I figure it's a long shot, but anyone out there
have spare parts for these? I figure if anyone knows, they're on this
list :).
Thanks as always,
Josh
2009/10/20 Mark Tapley <mtapley at swri.edu>:
> At 12:00 -0500 10/20/09, Doc replied to Dan:
>>
>> Dan Williams wrote:
>>>
>>> ?I just turned on my Alphaserver 2100 after being powered off for
>>> ?around 6 months. It will not power up at all. I have reseated
>>> ?everything and tried a new PSU. Anyone got any ideas what would stop
>>> ?this machine from powering up ?. The service manual just mentions the
>>> ?door switch which seems ok.
>>
>> ? ASSuming you're working with a deskside and not a rackmount, the door
>> switch may be the problem. ?I've had 2 AS2100s fail to power on when the
>> PCB in the LCD/switch panel became loose in its mounts. ?It's mounted on
>> 4 split pins and the PCB wears and I think the pins lose their spring,
>> so when you close the door it pushes the whole board aside instead of
>> closing the switch.
>>
>> ? The fix was insanely difficult and technically challenging - I jammed
>> the point of a plastic toothpick into the center of each of the split
>> pins and cut it off flush. ?:-)
>>
>>
>> ? ? ? ?Doc
>
> Dan,
> ? ? ? ?I also have an AS2100 4/275 deskside, I think. If there are useful
> tests that won't toast my machine, I can try to dig it out and run them for
> you if it'll help. Mine also hasn't been on in many moons, though, and I
> have not had a chance to get familiar with it at all. :-( .
> ? ? ? ?I assume you have access to all the documentation you want?
> --
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?- Mark ? ? 210-379-4635
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Large Asteroids headed toward planets
> inhabited by beings that don't have
> technology adequate to stop them:
>
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.
>
If you have time it would be great to know if the machine will start
up with all the boards pulled except the i/o. It would narrow down
diagnostics.
Dan
My good friend Robert Arnold has a very nice pile of NeXT stuff, including
several complete cube systems with keyboards, mice, laser printer,
scanner, etc.
Photos available here:
http://siconic.com/crap/rax/
Located in Oakland, California.
Terms are pick-up only. I would imagine Robert MIGHT be willing to ship
this if you ply him with enough money, but it would have to be a
compelling amount (as in an amount that would be required to hire someone
else to do it professionally). He simply does not want to hassle with
shipping.
The entire lot is for sale for $1,500. I think that's a pretty screaming
bargain considering all that is there. He would also consider a partial
trade for a recent vintage Macintosh notebook or desktop.
More information below.
Please contact Robert directly if you are interested.
Reply-to: Robert Arnold <warbaby at warbaby.com>
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:17:12 -0700
From: Robert Arnold <warbaby at warbaby.com>
To: sellam at vintagetech.com
Subject: NeXT Photos
Hi Sam -
This is prolly more photos than you need, but I wanted to show
everything that is there. I'd like to get $1500 for everything - or
will take a recent MacBook, iMac, or MacMini in part trade.
[ these are captions for the photos Robert sent me - SI ]
There's one more monitor in a carton
Two cubes, keyboards, speaker box, CD drive, cables
Two more cubes, two keyboards
Two more keyboards (one Kanji)
Scanner, more keyboards
HD case with drive, software disks
Manuals
More manuals
Cables, mousies
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Website: http://www.warbaby.com
(Long overdue for an update. One of these days...)
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Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way
they ought to be."
- St Augustine
Hi All,
I found 3 tapes, 2 are containing TCPWARE for OpenVMS v4.0-5 on TK-50's
and a TK-50 containing 'ScriptServer printing system' V3.2-8 from
GayMatter.
Anybody interested in them?
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At 12:00 -0500 10/20/09, Doc replied to Dan:
>Dan Williams wrote:
>> I just turned on my Alphaserver 2100 after being powered off for
>> around 6 months. It will not power up at all. I have reseated
>> everything and tried a new PSU. Anyone got any ideas what would stop
>> this machine from powering up ?. The service manual just mentions the
>> door switch which seems ok.
>
> ASSuming you're working with a deskside and not a rackmount, the door
>switch may be the problem. I've had 2 AS2100s fail to power on when the
>PCB in the LCD/switch panel became loose in its mounts. It's mounted on
>4 split pins and the PCB wears and I think the pins lose their spring,
>so when you close the door it pushes the whole board aside instead of
>closing the switch.
>
> The fix was insanely difficult and technically challenging - I jammed
>the point of a plastic toothpick into the center of each of the split
>pins and cut it off flush. :-)
>
>
> Doc
Dan,
I also have an AS2100 4/275 deskside, I think. If there are
useful tests that won't toast my machine, I can try to dig it out and
run them for you if it'll help. Mine also hasn't been on in many
moons, though, and I have not had a chance to get familiar with it at
all. :-( .
I assume you have access to all the documentation you want?
--
- Mark 210-379-4635
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Large Asteroids headed toward planets
inhabited by beings that don't have
technology adequate to stop them:
Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.
I just turned on my Alphaserver 2100 after being powered off for
around 6 months. It will not power up at all. I have reseated
everything and tried a new PSU. Anyone got any ideas what would stop
this machine from powering up ?. The service manual just mentions the
door switch which seems ok.
Thanks
Dan
