I have an unusual CoCo 2...it was produced as a kit form. I
bought it at a RS tent sale in Dallas in 1985-86. I thought it was a
plug in the boards kit, but when I got it home it was totally bare
boards. Took several hours of soldering to complete. I was told by a
friend who was a RS manager, that they were a pilot program for schools
to have classes assemble the machines and then the school would have
alow cost path to getting more computers. Tandy later decided that this
would be a warranty nightmare and sold the kits for $20 at the tent
sale.
There was a thread here a few weeks back about dealing with those sticky
labels that seem to accumulate on classic computers.
I've just bought a can of a substance called 'Electrolube (the brand name)
Label Remover'. You spray it on, wait a few minutes, and rub the label
off. I used it yesterday to remove some _strong_ double-sided adhesive
tape inside my laser printer, and it did the job extremely well.
The can claims that it may attack some plastics (so take care on classic
micro cases!), and it's not that cheap (\pounds 4.00 for a small-ish
spraycan from Maplin). But it certainly does the job.
--
-tony
ard12(a)eng.cam.ac.uk
The gates in my computer are AND,OR and NOT, not Bill
What a wonderful idea. Such a list is ideal for a web site. I will gather a
few more titles (espeically biographical books by and about CEO's from NCR,
Raytheon, GE, DEC, etc.) and send them off to you.
Kevin
> HOME & PERSONAL COMPUTERS HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
>
> Books listed as TITLE, AUTHOR, PUBLISHER AND PUBLICATION DATE
An excellent list!
I'd like to point out that between 77-81 timeframe you have a huge hole as
there was an explosion of books about microcomputers.
Allison
Have a mint condition Kaypro 10, complete with all manuals. Looks like it
came out of the box. Works great, all original software.
If you know of anyone who has a serious interest, please e-mail me.
Don Sarno
Sam,
Thanks for your efforts in the great AIM-65 buyout! I'll take two of the Panasonics.
Regards,
Bob
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From: Sam Ismail[SMTP:dastar@crl.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 1997 4:18 AM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: AIM65
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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Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass
Sam Ismail <dastar(a)crl.com> writes:
> 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.
Some computers are so classic that they're still out there doing Real
Work!
I am going to have to pull my other AIM65 out and take a good look at
it to see if I can figure out who badge-engineered it. (I wonder if it
was Mike?) It is also in a plastic case that is obviously intended to
make it portable, and I wonder how many other companies there were
doing specialized applications around them.
Thanks, Sam and Marvin, for sounding this out and being the
go-betweens.
-Frank McConnell
Sam Ismail wrote:
> 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.
The problem lies in the fact that in the early/mid 80's Dynatem *bought*
the rights to the AIM-65. Lock stock and barrel. I guess they have a
right to buy them. I don't think they are going to get tossed anytime
soon. I might try to contact them and maybe buy one of of them.
BC
In a message dated 97-06-21 21:41:21 EDT, you write:
<< I found an interesting printer today. It is an SR2000, produced by
Sears Roebuck & Company, or at least it has their name on it. According
>>
I have one also, and have the manual somewhere if you need specific
info. might take me a week or two to find it though. :-)
Kelly
KFergason(a)aol.com
