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DEC legacy event accounced in UK

by jgessling＠yahoo.com

>From comp.os.vms : http://wickensonline.co.uk/declegacy/ All I know is what I read on the web... Regards, Jim

14 years, 5 months

Compupro and PET/UNITRON/TI etc. systems posted earlier

by dave09＠dunfield.com

Thanks to everyone who responded. I will be preparing a list of the responses received (in the order received) and forward them to the respective people with the systems, and they will take it from there. Sorry if my "contact me for more info" turned out to be misleading, I was hoping to have obtained permission to give out their contact info, however neither has responded yet, and apparently people from the list are getting impatient. At this point the best way for me to handle is to forward the messages I've received to the parties and let them handle it, as I have no further information to give out yet. Please stop sending emails asking if I've received your previous messages, if the systems are still available, or other questions - I know only what I posted. Thanks, Dave -- dave09 (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.html

14 years, 5 months

cctalk Digest, Vol 75, Issue 17

by ken＠seefried.com

way somewhere. > > You, sir, are blessed with being in the right part of the country to get > interesting gear cheap. The best I can hope for around here is old VCRs and > last year's Pentiums. And yes, I DO know how to find st Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-request at classiccmp.org Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:00:02 To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: cctalk Digest, Vol 75, Issue 17 Send cctalk mailing list submissions to cctalk at classiccmp.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctalk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to cctalk-request at classiccmp.org You can reach the person managing the list at cctalk-owner at classiccmp.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of cctalk digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Shipping a Tek 'scope (Peter C. Wallace) 2. Re: Shipping a Tek 'scope (William Donzelli) 3. Re: GRI (William Donzelli) 4. Re: Shipping a Tek 'scope (CRC) 5. Re: Shipping a Tek 'scope (Chuck Guzis) 6. Re: Shipping a Tek 'scope (Dave McGuire) 7. Re: GRI (Curt @ Atari Museum) 8. Re: apple documentary and huge apple collection (Brian Lanning) 9. Re: GRI (Chuck Guzis) 10. Re: GRI (Al Kossow) 11. Re: GRI (Al Kossow) 12. Re: GRI (William Donzelli) 13. Re: GRI (Curt @ Atari Museum) 14. Re: apple documentary and huge apple collection (Teo Zenios) 15. Re: Walkthrough of a small datacenter 1992 (jim s) 16. Compupro 8/16 system avail. in San Francisco Bay area (Dave Dunfield) 17. PET, Sinclair, Unitron (AppleII clone), TI-99/4As avail near Toronto. (Dave Dunfield) 18. Re: PET, Sinclair, Unitron (AppleII clone), TI-99/4As avail near Toronto. (Alexandre Souza) 19. Osborn 1 systems available in OR (shumaker at att.net) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:57:44 -0800 (PST) From: "Peter C. Wallace" <pcw at mesanet.com> Subject: Re: Shipping a Tek 'scope To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0911121548130.15267 at freeby.mesanet.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Dave McGuire wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:46:34 -0500 > From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> > Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: Shipping a Tek 'scope > > On Nov 12, 2009, at 6:13 PM, William Donzelli wrote: >>> Umm the world is round. I suspect all the big cleaning of old stuff >>> was done about 10 to 15 years ago, with the advent of digital scopes. >> >> In the past six months, I have come across (in mostly different >> locations!) EIGHT different tube type Tek scopes. I will likely only >> keep the 565 machine, as all good 70s mainframe shops had a Tek on a >> cart tucked away somewhere. > > You, sir, are blessed with being in the right part of the country to get > interesting gear cheap. The best I can hope for around here is old VCRs and > last year's Pentiums. And yes, I DO know how to find stuff...there's just > not any here. > >> Just a few days ago I came into a 535A and a 567. The 567 is a little >> bit of an oddball, as it has the built in Nixie tube frequency >> counter. I may end up parting these out, unless someone wants to give >> me scrap/parts/shipping value (from 10512). It is a bit rough, so it >> is a bit of a project. > > 567, I don't think I've even heard of that model. Built-in frequency > counter, neat! I might be interested in picking that up from you if you > don't get any other takers. > > -Dave > > -- > Dave McGuire > Port Charlotte, FL Dont think its frequency counter but a voltmeter/comparator widget that can measure amplitude/risetime etc when used with sampling plugins. Has go/nogo outputs, probably intended as part of a automated test system. Peter Wallace ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:04:28 -0500 From: William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> Subject: Re: Shipping a Tek 'scope To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <e1d20d630911121604t6b5871c5i6bfcdffcf2d4ddf7 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Dont think its frequency counter but a voltmeter/comparator widget that can > measure amplitude/risetime etc when used with sampling plugins. Has go/nogo > outputs, probably intended as part of a automated test system. I think you might be right there. I will take a look at it tomorrow. -- Will ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:10:50 -0500 From: William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> Subject: Re: GRI To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <e1d20d630911121610yc5d84y3649b6185709cdb3 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > GRI--Newton, Mass--I thought, was a firm not affiliated with anyone. The advert in an old Datamation has the fine print "part of GR Industries". GenRad at the time was an almost sunken ship (there is such a thing as being too conservative in the test equipment market!), and I have to think it was a mad attempt to bail out the water. -- Will ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:35:04 -0700 From: CRC <technobug at comcast.net> Subject: Re: Shipping a Tek 'scope To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Message-ID: <211232ED-E34B-4679-913D-BEE87A8EDA70 at comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:35:03 -0800, Chuck Guzis wrote: > [...] > You can say that again. While I don't miss fussing with the old > storage-tube scopes, a good analog scope is still a very valuable > tool (mine is an old Tek 465). I wouldn't mind owning a 7000 series > unit with a nice palette of plugins, but I suspect those are still in > high demand and command real money. > > --Chuck On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:51:34 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: > 770x scopes are relatively cheap, but a 790x in good shape will > set you back may hundreds of dollars. The good thing is that they're > practically indestructible. > [...] I've seen quite a few 770x and 79xx scopes come through my local scraper in the last few years and haven't sold. Right now, the gold value in these beasts are worth more than what people are willing to pay and almost all are hitting the scrap bin. As a house warmer I keep a 7944 around - a two beam unit that will display 8 inputs, but use a Tek 2465B when I need the speed. CRC ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:00:56 -0800 From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> Subject: Re: Shipping a Tek 'scope To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <4AFC3F48.24450.21FCBAB at cclist.sydex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On 12 Nov 2009 at 17:35, CRC wrote: > I've seen quite a few 770x and 79xx scopes come through my local > scraper in the last few years and haven't sold. Right now, the gold > value in these beasts are worth more than what people are willing to > pay and almost all are hitting the scrap bin. As a house warmer I keep > a 7944 around - a two beam unit that will display 8 inputs, but use a > Tek 2465B when I need the speed. A shame--I remember putting in a lot of hours with the logic analyzer plugin--it was amazingly useful, even when compared to the dedicated HP analyzers of the 70s. --Chuck ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:24:08 -0500 From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> Subject: Re: Shipping a Tek 'scope To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <8704A9C2-14D8-42C3-96E8-20EC283E2294 at neurotica.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Nov 12, 2009, at 7:35 PM, CRC wrote: >> [...] >> You can say that again. While I don't miss fussing with the old >> storage-tube scopes, a good analog scope is still a very valuable >> tool (mine is an old Tek 465). I wouldn't mind owning a 7000 series >> unit with a nice palette of plugins, but I suspect those are still in >> high demand and command real money. >> >> --Chuck > > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:51:34 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: > >> 770x scopes are relatively cheap, but a 790x in good shape will >> set you back may hundreds of dollars. The good thing is that they're >> practically indestructible. >> [...] > > I've seen quite a few 770x and 79xx scopes come through my local > scraper in the last few years and haven't sold. Right now, the gold > value in these beasts are worth more than what people are willing > to pay and almost all are hitting the scrap bin. As a house warmer > I keep a 7944 around - a two beam unit that will display 8 inputs, > but use a Tek 2465B when I need the speed. They still fetch big bucks on eBay and through brokers. Anyone scrapping them is a fool. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:27:31 -0500 From: "Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com> Subject: Re: GRI To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <4AFCB603.5060204 at atarimuseum.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Anybody have a Genrad 6500 development system they'd like to trade or sell ? Curt Dave McGuire wrote: > > GenRad made LOTS of very high-end automated board testers as well, > most of which were built around embedded Qbus PDP-11s. Many of them > are still in service; I have a friend who runs a tidy business > maintaining them. > > -Dave > > On Nov 12, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Dave Caroline wrote: >> Around that time ish they were also making a digital tester, Bug hound >> GR2220, I wonder if that was born to fix their computer etc >> >> Dave Caroline >> >> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:18 PM, William Donzelli >> <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Speaking of classic test equipment... >>> >>> The circa-1970 GRI-99 minicomputer from GRI. What a bomb. I have to >>> wonder how many sold, and if any are left. >>> >>> Was GRI an attempt by General Radio to get into the minicomputer fray? >>> >>> -- >>> Will >>> > > ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:49:07 -0600 From: Brian Lanning <brianlanning at gmail.com> Subject: Re: apple documentary and huge apple collection To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <6dbe3c380911121749k46bd11c9s661f9ecffc77e8c9 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Alexandre Souza <pu1bzz.listas at gmail.com>wrote: > It remembers me how HARD is to find a IIGS here in Brazil. Even a > motherboard would help. > > BTW, anyone with a spare Ramworks II or Ramworks III? :o) > Or how about a 2e/2gs scsi controller? There are great many machines that aren't here either. I'd like to have a Sharp X68000. But that's unlikely to happen here. If one came up on ebay, I'm sure it would have a ridiculous price. :-) I just picked up a spare 2gs from ebay for the princely sum of $8. lol Some of them go for quite a bit though if they include all the accessories. brian ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:17:02 -0800 From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> Subject: Re: GRI To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <4AFC511E.14431.2657941 at cclist.sydex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On 12 Nov 2009 at 19:10, William Donzelli wrote: > > GRI--Newton, Mass--I thought, was a firm not affiliated with anyone. > > The advert in an old Datamation has the fine print "part of GR > Industries". > > GenRad at the time was an almost sunken ship (there is such a thing as > being too conservative in the test equipment market!), and I have to > think it was a mad attempt to bail out the water. Will, I think it's the wrong "GR", but an interesting story. From http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/arch/risc/ "Sidenote: Saul Dinman explained in 2003 that GRI was originally General Research Corporation, a private Massachussetts company; when it went public, it had name conflicts with a pre-existing General Research, and then with General Radio as it hunted for a non- conflicting name. Under the name GRI, the company was eventually acquired by venture capitalists in North Carolina, and then by a display manufacturer that wanted to buy their OEM supplier, and finally by Analog Devices. The GRI processor architecture was one of the first bus-oriented architectures built using a printed-circuit backplane. Thousands of GRI-909 systems were sold on an OEM basis, mostly in the industrial control sector. Had marketing and capitalization worked out differently, the GRI-909 might have been an effective competitor for the Data General Nova, another DEC spinoff." So I guess that any remnants of GRI might be in AD's archives... Cheers, Chuck ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:06:14 -0800 From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> Subject: Re: GRI To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <4AFCCD26.4090402 at bitsavers.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed William Donzelli wrote: > Was GRI an attempt by General Radio to get into the minicomputer fray? > No, it was a company started by Saul Denman after he left DEC. Saul came up with the PDP-8/S Did some GRI stuff turn up? ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:16:44 -0800 From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> Subject: Re: GRI To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <4AFCCF9C.3000400 at bitsavers.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Curt @ Atari Museum wrote: > Anybody have a Genrad 6500 development system they'd like to trade or > sell ? > The 6500 development system was designed by a company called Datakit. Home-grown OS, and hard sectored floppies, as I recall. ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:21:36 -0500 From: William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> Subject: Re: GRI To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <e1d20d630911121921l28c361d9ta93659e61e0113c1 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > No, it was a company started by Saul Denman after he left DEC. Saul > came up with the PDP-8/S > > Did some GRI stuff turn up? Nope, just some old Datamations with the advert. I find it interesting that the ad does not make it clear at all that the company is or is not associated with GenRad. -- Will ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:30:14 -0500 From: "Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com> Subject: Re: GRI To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <4AFCD2C6.2050904 at atarimuseum.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi Al, Thanks for the heads up and info.... Curt Al Kossow wrote: > Curt @ Atari Museum wrote: >> Anybody have a Genrad 6500 development system they'd like to trade or >> sell ? >> > > The 6500 development system was designed by a company called Datakit. > Home-grown > OS, and hard sectored floppies, as I recall. > > ------------------------------ Message: 14 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:04:41 -0500 From: "Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> Subject: Re: apple documentary and huge apple collection To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <E51349B2B4A64A878BA06BC75AB5C6F2 at dell8300> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Lanning" <brianlanning at gmail.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 8:49 PM Subject: Re: apple documentary and huge apple collection > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Alexandre Souza > <pu1bzz.listas at gmail.com>wrote: > >> It remembers me how HARD is to find a IIGS here in Brazil. Even a >> motherboard would help. >> >> BTW, anyone with a spare Ramworks II or Ramworks III? :o) >> > > Or how about a 2e/2gs scsi controller? > I just picked up a spare 2gs from ebay for the princely sum of $8. lol > Some of them go for quite a bit though if they include all the > accessories. > > brian Depends what you do on the IIgs. If you just want to play games or a few old apps you can get by with a simple system, monitor, keyboard, dual 3.5" and dual 5.25". I have a Transwarp IIgs, 8mb RAM card, rev C SCSI card, and I mostly just boot from floppy and play games. All the extras are nice if you use GS/OS and want to transfer images and files around (and read HFS partitions or network with a Mac), but if you have an old Mac you can make usable disks there. You can still find systems on freecycle if you post a wanted, they will most likely be basic setups (teachers seem to snag them for their kids and then get rid of them when the kids get older). ------------------------------ Message: 15 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:00:38 -0800 From: jim s <jws at jwsss.com> Subject: Re: Walkthrough of a small datacenter 1992 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <4AFC5B56.9050309 at jwsss.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed rmg at ranma.com wrote: > Just ran across this list. I thought I'd share this with all of you. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am60T-p7f1E > > This was when I was working at NASA Ames -- NASA Science Internet (NSIPO), Building N-233. I had a Sony Hi8 I just had bought and was testing out. I'm surprised I kept this footage. > > Enjoy! > > Rob Gutierrez > Very interesting footage to have. I have a friend who may have one of the Micom boxes. We used one in our office for terminal access. Also interesting is that one seemed to have to waste paper to keep the systems running. I suppose most dec systems had printing consoles and had to be running, from the stories that are out there about systems where the consoles quit. I noticed the disk drives as well, still have some fujitsu drives, as well as the CDC SMD drives that appeared to be in the racks. thanks for posting it. ------------------------------ Message: 16 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:03:56 -0500 From: "Dave Dunfield" <dave09 at dunfield.com> Subject: Compupro 8/16 system avail. in San Francisco Bay area To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Message-ID: <14E4FC3534B2 at dunfield.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Apparently headed for recycling if no takers are found (so act soon). Contact me off-list for more info. Dave -- dave09 (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.html ------------------------------ Message: 17 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:03:56 -0500 From: "Dave Dunfield" <dave09 at dunfield.com> Subject: PET, Sinclair, Unitron (AppleII clone), TI-99/4As avail near Toronto. To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Message-ID: <14E4FBE73756 at dunfield.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 1 Commodore 8032 computer 1 Commodore 8250M dual floppy drive 1 timex/sinclair M330 computer 1 Unitron Apple clone with single floppy drive,Applesoft tutorial & Apple lle owners manual 2 Texas Instr. TI-94/4A computers with two power supplies, one synthesizer unit with software & manuals. Located in Richmond Hill, north of Toronto (Ontario, Canada). Apparently headed for recycling if no takers are found (so act soon). Contact me off-list for more information. Dave -- dave09 (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.html ------------------------------ Message: 18 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:22:04 -0200 From: Alexandre Souza <pu1bzz.listas at gmail.com> Subject: Re: PET, Sinclair, Unitron (AppleII clone), TI-99/4As avail near Toronto. To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <4a15f9590911130522h74bc0405t348103331436853b at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Wow, Unitron AP II :oD This is the best brazilian apple clone :oD On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Dave Dunfield <dave09 at dunfield.com> wrote: > 1 Commodore 8032 computer > 1 Commodore 8250M dual floppy drive > 1 timex/sinclair M330 computer > 1 Unitron Apple clone with single floppy drive,Applesoft tutorial > & Apple lle owners manual > 2 Texas Instr. TI-94/4A computers with two power supplies, one > synthesizer unit with software & manuals. > > ------------------------------ Message: 19 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:55:57 +0000 From: shumaker at att.net Subject: Osborn 1 systems available in OR To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Message-ID: <111320091555.5993.4AFD818C000E88970000176922230706129B0A02D29B9B0EBF9D0A050E039A089C at att.net> 2 Osborn 1 systems available in the Corvallis (actually Albany) OR area.. One gets a screen prompt, one does not (NFI) seller wants $20 each but suspect he's flexible. Needs them gone so he can move. there is apparently SOME software/docs to go with. anyone interested, contact me off list for info steve End of cctalk Digest, Vol 75, Issue 17 **************************************

14 years, 5 months

Osborn 1 systems available in OR

by shumaker＠att.net

2 Osborn 1 systems available in the Corvallis (actually Albany) OR area.. One gets a screen prompt, one does not (NFI) seller wants $20 each but suspect he's flexible. Needs them gone so he can move. there is apparently SOME software/docs to go with. anyone interested, contact me off list for info steve

14 years, 5 months

Compupro 8/16 system avail. in San Francisco Bay area

by dave09＠dunfield.com

Apparently headed for recycling if no takers are found (so act soon). Contact me off-list for more info. Dave -- dave09 (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.html

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PET, Sinclair, Unitron (AppleII clone), TI-99/4As avail near Toronto.

by dave09＠dunfield.com

1 Commodore 8032 computer 1 Commodore 8250M dual floppy drive 1 timex/sinclair M330 computer 1 Unitron Apple clone with single floppy drive,Applesoft tutorial & Apple lle owners manual 2 Texas Instr. TI-94/4A computers with two power supplies, one synthesizer unit with software & manuals. Located in Richmond Hill, north of Toronto (Ontario, Canada). Apparently headed for recycling if no takers are found (so act soon). Contact me off-list for more information. Dave -- dave09 (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.html

14 years, 6 months

apple documentary and huge apple collection

by brianlanning＠gmail.com

We've been watching netflix through the xbox 360 lately. They have a documentary about apple that started out good, but sort of went down hill I think. (it seemed a few years old, so you may have already seen it) But toward the end, they showed a guy with a huge apple collection. He makes all of us look like amateurs. He doesn't have a storage facility. He has a 6000sqft building. It looks like a small office building. He also had machines in his basement, attic, and in a storage shed that looks more like a 2-car detached garage. In the video I saw maybe 40 or 50 apple 2es. I like stuff like this. It give me something to point my wife at and say, "see, at least i'm not like that guy!" lol http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Welcome_to_Macintosh/70112046?strackid=7c44782… brian

14 years, 6 months

GRI

by wdonzelli＠gmail.com

Speaking of classic test equipment... The circa-1970 GRI-99 minicomputer from GRI. What a bomb. I have to wonder how many sold, and if any are left. Was GRI an attempt by General Radio to get into the minicomputer fray? -- Will

14 years, 6 months

Shipping a Tek 'scope

by technobug＠comcast.net

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:35:03 -0800, Chuck Guzis wrote: > [...] > You can say that again. While I don't miss fussing with the old > storage-tube scopes, a good analog scope is still a very valuable > tool (mine is an old Tek 465). I wouldn't mind owning a 7000 series > unit with a nice palette of plugins, but I suspect those are still in > high demand and command real money. > > --Chuck On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:51:34 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: > 770x scopes are relatively cheap, but a 790x in good shape will > set you back may hundreds of dollars. The good thing is that they're > practically indestructible. > [...] I've seen quite a few 770x and 79xx scopes come through my local scraper in the last few years and haven't sold. Right now, the gold value in these beasts are worth more than what people are willing to pay and almost all are hitting the scrap bin. As a house warmer I keep a 7944 around - a two beam unit that will display 8 inputs, but use a Tek 2465B when I need the speed. CRC

14 years, 6 months

large core memory on Ventura CraigsList! item 1459663074

by shumaker＠att.net

for the listers that lust after core memory, there is one up on the Ventura CraigsList that appears to be a complete intact subsystem with all support circuitry in original housing. Described as a Litton Mass Core Memory Unit with an Ampex Core Assembly inside, poster put up several nice photos wants $450 for it steve

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