Does anyone have any Data General Desktop Generation manuals scanned that they could send me? I am particularly looking for "Desktop Generation Model 20-30 Technical Reference" p/n 014-000767-01 but any other associated DG manuals would be grateful recieved.
Also does anyone still have a 16-bit AOS distro, ideally floppy based?
I am rebuilding a DG20 and would prefer to install AOS over RDOS.
Thanks, Mark
While this is mainly for folks in the Bay Area, I'm posting this for informational
purposes and if anyone happens to be in the Bay Area to help, I'd appreciate it.
As many of you know, a couple of years ago I moved out of my shop and put
everything into storage. It dawned on me that what I was paying in storage fees
would finance a mortgage (ouch!).
After a brutal 6 month search, my wife and I found a property that met all (ok
almost all) of our criteria. One of the fundamental criteria (which nixed a number
of houses that we liked) was that there be a "shop" on the property. This one
does. The main level of the shop is 3 rooms totaling ~1000sq ft. Then there's the upstairs
which is another ~400sq ft (with 6' head room) and finally the "basement" which
is ~250sq ft (with 5' head room). I'll post a link to pictures once I put them up.
Remember, this is the shop. The house is *spectacular* and I'll cover that if
folks are interested but I'm not going into detail here since it's off topic.
This is our retirement property (yes we're getting to that age unfortunately) and
is about 180 miles from our current home. On the plus side, the property is
almost 10 acres.
I spent this past weekend moving ~150 "totes" from storage up to the new
shop. I barely made a dent in my storage units.
I need help in moving all of this stuff. Much of it is going up to the new place.
However, there is a large quantity of stuff that I've acquired that came along for
the ride as I was acquiring other stuff.
Some of what will *not* be going (more will follow as I dig out more stuff):
- Sun gear. I have a number of IPX's, LX's, SS2's, Ultra5's.
I don't know the status of them at this point but many of them (especially
the Ultra5's) are in great shape and I expect them to be fully functional.
- microVAX. I have fair number of these. From pizza box styles to BA123s.
- Q-bus based 11s. I have a number of these, but I didn't run across them
this weekend so I can't give a complete inventory
- 11/34s. I have 2-3 of these. They're pretty well stuffed. I haven't actually
run these and they're still in the rack(s).
Here are the rules:
- I will *not* ship. I'm under serious time pressure and I have *no* time to pack
and ship stuff.
- I will *not* look for specific stuff. I'm basically a packing robot at this point.
I'm operating on a binary decision: go or not. I'm not looking at stuff in detail,
there's no time.
- You come and help me move, you get to pick stuff that you want (that I'm not
taking).
- If you don't want to help move, you will be expected to pay a "nominal" value
for the item.
- If you come to help, I expect you to work. I don't have time to waste on jaw
boning.
- If you want stuff, I expect you to come...look, (pay), take and leave.
- Tell me your availability. I'm doing this on weekends. I will *not* be doing
any of this during the week. My "real" job consumes all of that time.
Sorry to be a bit blunt but I'm in a bit of a rush and need to get stuff moved.
Ideally, everything will be moved by 6/1.
Oh, and for those of you who might ask, anything that's left will be sent to
WeirdStuff.
If you're interested, please contact me off-list.
TTFN - Guy
Anyone got a working TM100 in their spare parts box? Or, alternatively,
anyone up to diagnose a dead TM100 for a fee? The K4+88 needs one. It
drags the PSU down completely when plugged in, and the mech won't read a
disk with a known good controller.
Also, the drives in the K4 (half height, I forgot to write down the
model number) run but are out of alignment. If someone is up to
aligning them, I'd pay for the efforts.
Jim
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Since its already a bit off topic. I was leaving for work this morning and saw my daughters bike which has a little pouch on the front that says "peace" which today I read as "peace sridhar".
I guess I should just be happy I'm not seeing "bad wolf". Although I did see that tattooed on a young lady at the local pet store.
Interesting read about Atari in the 80's.
http://www.atarileaks.org/
g.
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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:14:49 +0000
From: "Sam O'nella" <barythrin at gmail.com>
> The point of whoever posted the complaint originally was more of the lines
> of "300$ or it goes to goodwill".
I got the point the first time, thanks; he could also have read it as: "I
need to get rid of the following items and would like $xxx; if no one is
prepared to make an offer that's worth my while I'll donate them to
charity."
As Richard says, if you want 'em and are prepared to pick them up, make an
offer; Landon's not a committed generous collector, he's a dealer with a
dubious rep, and IMO the prices are actually reasonable by ebay standards.
If not, move on; don't waste time bitching because you don't like Landon and
his prices or Goodwill's policies, think he *should* be prepared to ship
and/or break them down for parts, etc. etc.
They're PCs and Macs, not Kenbaks or PDP-6s...
But bitching at/about other people is what this list is largely about these
days, alas...
Sorry, forgot to mention I'm in the Seattle area (but travel around the
Pacific NW quite frequently).
At 9:14 PM -0700 4/20/13, Ryan Snodgrass wrote:
>I am looking for a DEC VT100, or possibly VT102, to add to my computer
>collection. I spent many years early on programming on VT100/102 series
>connected to VAX 11/750 and VAX 4000. I've wanted to have one as my
>terminal for quite some time. Does anyone know of a nice one that is
>available? Thanks.
>Ryan
