I have received a few requests for the Donner 3500 instruction manual,
which I have posted on my site, with related docs
http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread_record.cfm?id=421&tid=9
It appears a few of these are popping out of the woodwork lately. There
are now at least 8 now known to exist, maybe more.
Bill Degnan
Tonight I finished reading Walter Isaacson's book about Jobs. It is very good, and I highly recommend it.
I urge cctalk'ers to read it and constantly keep in mind * the big picture * instead of being your usual nit-picky selves about tech details.
Hey everyone!
I need to raise some money for gifts this year so I'm cleaning out some of
the systems I don't play with any more.
Terms:
* I'm in Bloomington, IN (47408)
* Everything works as of the last time I turned them on
* Things that are shipped: Payment via paypal + actual costs for shipping
* Things that aren't shipped: Cash only, and I can meet within a 50 mile
radius or so. That means the south side of Indy, Terre Haute, etc.
* If it seems too high, make me an offer. Of course, if it seems to low you
can offer too :)
* Sun Ultra 5 ($40, will ship)
333 MHz UltraSPARC IIi, 256M RAM, CDROM, Floppy, Needs ATA HD
* IBM RS/6000 43p 7248 ($20, will ship)
133 MHz PPC 604, 96M RAM, 2.2G SCSI Disk, CDROM
* DEC VT-420 ($25)
Amber, Keyboard, 2 MMJ Ports
* DEC VT-220 ($25)
Green, Keyboard, DB25 Port
* DECserver 200/MC ($25, will ship)
8 db25 ports
* AUI 10BaseT Tranceivers ($1 each, will ship)
10 available, 12" cable
* 21" NeXT MegaPixel Color ($25)
Model N4005A, 13w3 connector
* Kaypro 4/84 ($150)
a: 5.25", b: 3.5", original disks for: cp/m 2.2g, basic-80, microplan,
c-basic, datastar, reportstar, calcstar, wordstar, mailmerge, s-basic,
suprterm,dbase ii; looks like a pretty full set of manuals. I have the
2nd 5.25" drive if you want it as well. Broken right hand keyboard latch.
* Amiga 1000 System ($350)
In original box with manuals. 256K expansion, 1M side expansion,
kickstart/workbench 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 (originals and copies, some disks fail
due to age, but I could boot 1.1 and 1.3). Zenith color composite monitor,
and misc software.
* Apple IIgs System ($100)
3.5" and 5.25" drives. System 5.0.4 software plus lots of educational stuff.
12" color monitor. Owner's reference and getting started guide.
* 22 8" floppies ($10, will ship)
If they weren't so big they'd make great stocking stuffers. Maybe they can
be hung outside the stocking?
I suspect many of use have this sort of problem, and I'd be interested in
hearing any solutions to it.
Moat classic computers have various little bits that go with them, in
particular cables and connector adaptors. In some cases these are
specific to one particular type of machine (e.g. the user prot adaptor
for the Acor Cabridge Workstation), others are rather more generic (the
same cassette lead fits all TRS-80 M1, M3, M4 and M100 machins, along
with the IBM 5150), and still others are totally generic (HPIB cables,
'kettle leads', etc).
I find storing thes parts, partircularly the 'somewhat generic' ones is a
problem, and I can never find what I need. You cna't categorise them by
machine (becase, for example, a TRS-80 M1 RS232 cable is specific to that
machine (it plugs into an esdge conenctor on the EI), the pritner cable
also fits the M3 and M4 machines, the cassette lead also fits the IBM
PC), you vcan;'t realy do it by function (a DBd25-DB25 lead could be used
for several purposes, not only RS232), and so on.
Any ideas? I am getting fed up with having to re-make a cable which I know I
made a couple years earlier, but for a different machine, and which I now
can't find.
-tony
I believe they have multiple (6? More?) Pentium or Pentium Pro processors.
At 07:20 PM 11/30/2011, you wrote:
>Do you know if these are Intel AViiON computers or Motorola 88k based
>machines?
>
>-Matt
>
>On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Tom <a50mhzham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I might be soon coming into possession of some Data General stuff. Maybe
> > an Aviion 66. There's a second one, maybe a model 37? I'm not sure. No
> > drives. I'm going to see what's there and post the inventory in the next
> > few weeks. I've never heard of any demand for these; anyone know if there
> > would be any interest? I realize my question is based on pretty sketchy
> > information so far, but that's all I know.
> >
> > -T
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 434 . [Humor] My school colors were clear. --Steven Wright
> > NEW: a50mhzham at gmail.com ? N9QQB (amateur radio)
> > "HEY YOU" (loud shouting) ? Second Tops (Set Dancing) ? FIND ME ON FACEBOOK
> > 43? 7' 17.2" N by 88? 6' 28.9" W ? Elevation 815' ? Grid Square EN53wc
> > LAN/Telecom Analyst ? Open-source Dude ? Musician ? Registered Linux User
> > 385531
> >
140 . [Philosophy] Faith means not _wanting_ to know the truth. --Nietzsche
NEW: a50mhzham at gmail.com ? N9QQB (amateur radio)
"HEY YOU" (loud shouting) ? Second Tops (Set Dancing) ? FIND ME ON FACEBOOK
43? 7' 17.2" N by 88? 6' 28.9" W ? Elevation 815' ? Grid Square EN53wc
LAN/Telecom Analyst ? Open-source Dude ? Musician
? Registered Linux User 385531
I might be soon coming into possession of some
Data General stuff. Maybe an Aviion 66. There's
a second one, maybe a model 37? I'm not sure. No
drives. I'm going to see what's there and post
the inventory in the next few weeks. I've never
heard of any demand for these; anyone know if
there would be any interest? I realize my
question is based on pretty sketchy information so far, but that's all I know.
-T
434 . [Humor] My school colors were clear. --Steven Wright
NEW: a50mhzham at gmail.com ? N9QQB (amateur radio)
"HEY YOU" (loud shouting) ? Second Tops (Set Dancing) ? FIND ME ON FACEBOOK
43? 7' 17.2" N by 88? 6' 28.9" W ? Elevation 815' ? Grid Square EN53wc
LAN/Telecom Analyst ? Open-source Dude ? Musician
? Registered Linux User 385531
As a follow up to Richard's question, does anyone have any experience
archiving an Xebec S1410 / S1410A SASI controlled drive from a
relatively modern system? If the SASI controller doesn't support the
standard SCSI Inquiry and Read Capacity commands I wouldn't expect
that you could simply connect it to a SCSI host controller on a Linux
box and "dd" the drive contents to a disk image file.
-Glen
