test-drb February 2013

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Full inventory of my storage unit- $30 dollars an item, Get it while its cheap

by slandon110＠gmail.com

I finally got an inventory up of what I have. Heres the price $30 bucks an item plus shipping, no matter what it is. Inventory as of 2-16-13 10 Apple Monitor // 4 Apple Monitor /// 32 Cosmetically damaged IIGS Monitors 10 Nice GS Monitors 8 Mac IIcx 2 Mac IIci 3 Mac IIsi 5 Imagewriter I 3 Beige G3 Minitowers 2 G3 Desktops 5 PowerMac 6100s 2 Centris 610 1 Quadra 610 1 Performa 6110 1 Performa 6116 1 PowerMac 7300/180 1 PowerMac 7500/100 2 PowerMac 7100/66 1 Performa 600 1 Macintosh IIVX 4 Original LCs 3 LC 575s 1 SE FDHD 2 SE 800k 5 Mac Pluses 1 Molar Mac

11 years, 5 months

does anyone need an Amiga mouse for 10$ + shipping?

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

it's bleachy. Turns out it was left outside in a box w/a bunch of cables, and rain water bleaches things better then most other substances. Works fine. Tested it on the A600 I sold recently. Cable is a little dirty too.

11 years, 5 months

3B2 Winchester (ST4376N/CDC Wren)

by saquinn624＠aol.com

Someone pointed out that the 3B2's disk may still be salvageable. I'm not sure about that, but I don't have a lot of experience with the older drives. It's probably the original disk, as it has AT&T stickers on it. Plugged into multiple computers and external drive enclosures it spins up, head load click, then spins down. I've tried reseating connectors and checking jumpers, no change. I don't know what the jumper on the bottom side of the lowest PCB near the SCSI connector does, and there are two empty DIP sockets on the bottom of the drive that could possbly be a part of the problem. I haven't taken a scope to it to trace out the signals yet and see if an amp died.

11 years, 5 months

does anyone need a Leaguer Internation mouse for shipping?

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

Sun related equipment IINM.

11 years, 5 months

Gold (WAS Re; 3B2 floppies)

by saquinn624＠aol.com

On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Chris Tofu wrote: > Well plating can be accomplished in the home shop but where are you > going to get the gold. Wait for a meteorite? > But it brings up an interesting idea of mine. Couldn't you reverse > plate the gold right off of pins and whatnot? No nasty chemicals, no > mess, no fuss. Gold plating usually uses cyanide compounds, which many people consider "nasty chemicals" (certainly chemicals that one needs to work with carefully, but pretty common for both plating and case hardening). If you're using cyanide anyway, you might as well go ahead and use a modified MacArthur-Forrest process and not bother with the electricity. Pour your gold-containing objects in a dilute cyanide solution, recover the gold by either electrowinning or single-replacement with zinc. At the end of the day either way is a lot of work for little gold.

11 years, 5 months

reasons to keep a Turbo XT clone.

by saquinn624＠aol.com

There was a question about what manufacturer made it. It looks like a generic Taiwanese whitebox, sticker on the back says "Mega 4000", sticker on the front says "AT Light" (+1 for them getting the spelling right instead of using "Lite", -100 for their marketing department appearing to have no idea what "AT" means). I guess I'll hang onto it for a bit, anyway. I have a SCSI card that will work in it and an old VGA card.

11 years, 5 months

Who were the worst of the worst?

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

------------------------------ On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 8:05 PM PST Chris Tofu wrote: > > >------------------------------ >On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 5:12 PM PST Jules Richardson wrote: > >>I know of at least one person who has some bare / partially-populated PCBs, but my board's the only complete one that I know of (aside from the possible ROM issue). > > are they willing to part with 1+? And which Acorn are we talking about? Apparently Acorn had a relationship to BBC. I'm looking for an Archimedes by the way, they're just so darn expensive last I checked.

11 years, 5 months

Microvax 80186 board

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

I pulled all the cards out of my rolling dinosaur. One small card with 2 sets of fingers sports an 80186. What is this card? I won't have a better picture until Monday if anyone was dying to see it.

11 years, 5 months

Who were the worst of the worst?

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

------------------------------ On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 5:12 PM PST Jules Richardson wrote: >I know of at least one person who has some bare / partially-populated PCBs, but my board's the only complete one that I know of (aside from the possible ROM issue). are they willing to part with 1+?

11 years, 5 months

WANTED: TM8E magtape controller for Omnibus

by hachti＠hachti.de

Hi folks, I already have lots of stuff - but there's always something missing! Is there anybody out there who 1. owns a TM8E magtape controller? and 2. who can imagine to give it away? I have a few TU10 drives that dropped in with a PDP11 some time ago. It would be awsome to get one of them running on a 8/e system. I know that there was a magtape controller. But I'be never seen one. And I don't know anyone who has one. At one point in newer history I found a H960 containing a 8/e and a TU10. But when opening the 8/e, it was empty - no TM11 controller :-( Any hints appreciated. Kind regards Philipp (I'm currently getting my collection reassembled and rearranged. Most of it will be tied together in the place where I'm living. Therefore I have begun to play with minicomputers again - after a few years of very low activity and a widely spread nearly inaccessible collection. And I will sell some stuff!) -- Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Philipp Hachtmann Buchdruck, Bleisatz, Spezialit?ten Alemannstr. 21, D-30165 Hannover Tel. 0511/3522222, Mobil 0171/2632239 Fax. 0511/3500439 hachti at hachti.de www.tiegeldruck.de UStdID DE 202668329

11 years, 5 months

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test-drb February 2013