Dear Friends,
There is no desire from my part to start another flame war (but a
discussion, yes) but in answer to the many that have expressed (here or
privately) their total disinterest for the *meaning* the *history* and
the *culture* behind our collections may I ask them to consider what
their machines would mean without somebody behind (or rather in front)
of them. Machines are just pieces of metal and plastic. They mean
something because they are related to the minds, fingers, emotions,
life, behaviours and destinies of the people behind them. YOU love so
much that piece of hadware for what it meant to you (or to somebody else
you are related with), to your life, to your history of for it meant to
the history of mankind.
So I am asking *you*, lover of the hardware to reconsider your thoughts
and ask yourself what would your collection mean without all of the
above. I, for one, will be glad to learn that you had second toughts
about this. In either cases it could be useful to read here your
motivations.
Thanks
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Ok, here it is.
Mike Westerfield, the guy with the AIM65s, phoned me yesterday and we
spoke about the deal. He has been offered $125 for EACH unit from a
company called Dynatem which still uses the AIMs commercially. Mike
started a company way back with a product based on the AIM65. It was an
insurance rate calculator. In order to make the product marketable, he
designed a plastic and a metal-base enclosure. He also placed a compact
power supply inside the enclosure to make for a nice complete package.
He apparently was very successful with this venture and sold many. At
this point, unless someone comes along and offers him more than $125 per
unit and buys the whole lot, they are going to Dynatem. That's too rich
for my blood.
After explaining all this to me, and after I explained what we do here
on classiccmp, Mike mentioned that he had a bunch of other stuff that we
might be interested in. He has a whole basement full of stuff he would
like to sell off. Here's what he told me he has:
EPROM burners
Logical Devices GangPro-S and GangPro-2S. These can burn 32 chips at a time.
These also have other features which make them very nice.
Logical Devices GangPro-8 and GangPro-4 which can burn 8 and 4 respectively.
Optical Technologies EP-2A-88 and EP-2A-89.
EPROMs
A "ton" of NEC-2716 and Hitachi 2716 EPROMs
He also has the line on hundreds of Panasonic RL-H18 palmtops. This is a
palmtop which came out around 1985 and had FORTH in ROM. It also has a
20-col (or 40-col?) thermal printer and a case which bundles the two
together. His company also developed an expansion "tray" which houses
extra memory that the Panasonic can access through bank-switching. He
sold this product to (I believe) an insurance firm and now they want to
dump them all. Now again, he said they have hundreds, and were just
going to shit-can them, but he said the company would most likely opt to
get some money back for them if they could. He said probably about $10
per unit would get them, but they'd have to be purchased in one shot.
Now I don't think that there are enough people here with an interest to
buy one. I suggested that perhaps they can set aside a couple hundred
and then shitcan the rest because I don't have a couple thousand lying
around in which to buy all of them, nor would I want to. It's up to us
to come up with a proposal.
As far as dealing with Mike, I asked him contacting him. At this point,
he would perfer the current arrangement whereby I am the central point of
contact because it is easier for him. However, this tends to put me in a
bad spot for certain reasons. I'm sure there will be people interested in
working out a bulk deal with him. To those people I say feel free to
contact him since he is most interested in getting rid of everything in
one shot. He's not interested in dealing with onesies and twosies. So
he would like for everyone who has an interest in a little here and a
little there to contact me about it and then he's going to call me again
in a week. This would refer mainly to someone wanting one of the
panasonic's or a few EPROMs. As far as the Panasonics, he's finding out
more information about quantity and we will talk more about price next
week. As far as the EPROM burners, I would think that dealing directly
with him would be best.
Anyway, his e-mail address is Mikeooo1(a)aol.com. He's a very nice guy.
He offered that if there was anyone in New Jersey (I believe there is at
least one person here, I can't remember his name) to come on down to his
place and he'll show you through all the stuff he has.
Sam
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At 04:11 PM 6/24/97 +0000, you wrote:
>I think that there is no need to get vulgar. If that is the general
>feeling I apologise and widthdraw my question. Sorry
There is no "general feeling". We are not the Borg. We are a bunch of
individuals with differing opinions and attitudes. You are one of us, I am
one of us, each of us is one of us. Some are more vocal than others. Take
what is of use or of interest to you, and ignore the rest.
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Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad
sinasohn(a)crl.com that none but madmen know."
Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/
Greeting:
I am located in central Nebraska, USA, and am looking for the following to
add to my collection. If you have these systems or might be able to get
them for me at a reasonable price, PLEASE e-mail me.
MSX computer
Colour Genie
TI 99/4a
I am also looking for any old classic software for these types of
computers. My specialty is the TRS-80 Model 1,3,4 computers. I am
especially interested in TRS-80 and Apple ][e games at this time. If you
would like a complete (65 page) listing of all my hardware and software
available, please send me your mailing address. If you would like it
immediately, please send $3 to the address below to cover shipping
charges.
Well, thanks a lot for your time, and I look forward to hearing from
fellow collectors. Remember, I am always buying, selling, and trading.
CORD COSLOR
Archive Software
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At 06:43 PM 6/21/97 +0000, you wrote:
>I accept that....but you are such a big country. Isn't it about time you
>start looking outside and try to understand other cultures? (no offence
But we are a country of other cultures. My father came over from Germany as
a boy. My mother was of english descent (going back to Ann Boleyn and
Katherine(?) Howard, two of Henry VIII's wives). My sister is an honorary
Nigerian. My girlfriend is Russian, French Canadian, and who knows what
else. Her sister-in-law is a philippina. Some of my best friends include
jamaicans, scotsman, irish, french, german, native american, japanese,
chinese, aussies, South African, eritrean, and so on.
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Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad
sinasohn(a)crl.com that none but madmen know."
Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/
And don't forget the Workslate from Convergent. It was the slickest laptop
around in 1984. Small LCD screen but built in voice digitization and voice
mail system! No disk, only min-cassette.
Kevin
>From: Kai Kaltenbach <kaikal(a)MICROSOFT.com>
>Subject: My current For Trade/Wanted List
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>Wanted:
>Commodore PET dual floppy system model 2040
I would suggest looking for a 4040, they are compatible with the 1541
as the 2040 is, more 4040s were made, and you won't have to worry about
getting DOS 1.0 ROMs (which should be upgraded) The single drive
equivelant to the 4040 is the 2031.
Larry Anderson
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> My girlfriend is a professional sculptress, I don't know why I
> didn't ask her to begin with. She recommended plain amonia, which I was
> sceptical of. I wanted to use Formula 405 basically because you had
> recommended it. Well, the amonia worked great and the case looks nearly
> brand new - it sure took several hours though. ;-) Never doubt a woman
I'm told that FANTASTIK handles static better than Formula 405.
I noticed a reference to trichloroethane a few days ago. I usta use it
years ago on Xeroxes. Be *careful* with it on hot parts. I'm told that on
contact with hot metal, trichlor produces phosgene gas, which was one of
the war gases used in WWI...slightly fatal. :>
> You could remove the keys and actually clean the
> contacts with alchohol. Is this possible, or am I just going to be able
> to get dust bunnies between the keys?
I've successfully used alcohol to clean keys by squirting it in there at
high pressure from a bottle.
Have you tried MEK? I think of alcohol (the kind without water) and MEK as
safe on almost anything.
Last night, a saintly gentleman was kind enough to present me with
several wonderful pieces of equipment and parts, including:
- IBM 5100 with a box of tapes!
- KIM-1 in original box(!) w/documentation, etc.
- Altos 5000 series Z80A with built-in dual 8" (might give this away if
u-pick-up)
- Tandy 200 portable with docs & carrying case
Plus a bunch of useful parts:
- Two SoftStrip readers in original boxes w/docs, etc.
- Three Shugart SA800 8" bare drives
- Two 5 1/4" bare drives
- Several PET motherboards and video power supplies (I'm giving these
away if u-pick-up!)
- Altos terminal (this goes with the Altos if someone picks up)
- IBM 5103 printer (companion printer to the 5100 PC)
- 4 slightly broken Tandy 200 portables (I'm giving these away if
u-pick-up!)
- Two unidentified front panels (look for mail on these)
- A CardBoard expansion bus (for the KIM, I think)
- PET dealer service manual stuffed with schematics, updates and
diagnostic program cassette tapes
- PET 80-column video/graphics board upgrade w/docs and box
Kai
>Roger Ivie wrote:
>>
>> No promises, but I _may_ have a CP/M boot disk for the thing and (depending
>> on how recently my cow-orkers have cleaned their offices) I may be able to
>> find a bit of technical info.
>>
>
>Wow, that would be great! It would also be good to get enough
>information to add it to the "Big List" that Bill maintains. In any
>case, thanks for the info!
OK, here's what I have found so far:
- Technical manual for "Microterm II" (also labelled "Series 2000")
- Technical manual for "Series 1000"
- A few other manuals, including a BASIC language manual and something
to do with 2780 communications.
Both technical manuals contain schematics. I've not yet compared the schematics
to see what the differences between "Series 1000" and "Series 2000" are.
I've not yet come across boot disks, but I've been informed that we still
have one of the machines in our storage shed, so I expect to find one when
I get _really_ serious about poking around.
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu
