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by jolminkh＠c2.telstra-mm.net.au

---------- > From: Paul E Coad <pcoad(a)crl.com> > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> > Subject: Re: Who was in Australia? > Date: Saturday, June 21, 1997 7:39 PM > > > On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Kai Kaltenbach wrote: > > > Subject: Mint Commodore PET FOR Sale > > From: "Stephen McCoy and Charmiane Barr" > > <mrsmrx(a)efni.com> > > Date: 1997/06/17Message-Id: > > <01bc7b43$fddee5c0$b8933dcf@charmaine> > > Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga[More Headers] > > I'll bite on this. How much is one of these worth? I have almost > zero experience with PETs having only seen 2 in person. What are the > relative rarities of the various models of PETs? Did they make a > bunch of them? Are they really common in some places and pretty > rare in others? > > The ones I have seen are pretty cool looking in a retro-future kind of way. > > Also note that whois reports that efni.com is in Canada. The machine > might not be in Australia. > > --pec > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Saved From The Dumpster Collection: http://www.crl.com/~pcoad/machines.html Well I'm in Australia and naturally have emailed mrsmrx(a)efni.com to ask their location. Unlike Altair and Imsai, PETs are obtainable here. I have one chicklet keyboard 4k version, a CBM 3032 and a CBM 8032 hulk. I suspect they will always be around because they are so hard to destroy. The case is very solid. I found the "hulk" in a paddock, like some people find ancient cars! I've never attempted to power this one up though.

29 years, 1 month

Mark 8

by timolmst＠cyberramp.net

>> If you get one of these up and running, I have a Scelbi book, "Space >> Wars for the 8008 Microprocessor" with full hex code listings... > >I also have the three books - > > An 8008 Editor Program > Machine Language Programming for the 8008 > Assembler Programs for the 8008 > >I am such a packrat 8-) > What would be the chances of getting copies of these books? Tim Olmstead timolmst(a)cyberramp.net

29 years, 1 month

Cocos

by e.tedeschi＠ndirect.co.uk

Just to help me understand better...when you refer to Cocos, do you refer to the Tandy TRS-80 COlour COmputers? Thanks enrico -- ================================================================ Enrico Tedeschi, 54, Easthill Drive, BRIGHTON BN41 2FD, U.K. tel/fax +(0)1273 701650 (24 hours) or 0850 104725 mobile website <http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~e.tedeschi> ================================================================ visit Brighton: <http://www.brighton.co.uk/tourist/welcome.htm>

29 years, 1 month

Why?

by allisonp＠world.std.com

> >c) You are against helping "foreigners" (and therefore "different") > >collectors to export "your" stuff perhaps in the wrong perception that > >it will diminish the heritage of the country (yours). I have striken a > >deal with one of the subscriber here and he disappeared in the distance > >after a while (he did not answer anymore...) By the way does anybody > >need British stuff? I would be glad to help you with it. There is the matter of customs which many americans have little experience with. I sent a floppy to someone in canada and despite it being our neighbor the customs paper was amazing! I was told it's worse if there is a transaction involved. Allison

29 years, 1 month

Mark 8

by timolmst＠cyberramp.net

>Actually a 8ksram and a 8kprom would do it. Actualy what I had in mind was for the EPROM to copy itself into RAM and then switch itself out. THat way, you could have as much, or little, in ROM as you want, and not loos any RAM. >That this is slow enough you could use the EEprom for sram! (the slow parts >was 20us and the real fast one was 10us (single byte instruction). I believe that the fast one was 12.5us wasn't it? That is what I have. > >The real annoying part is capturing all the muxed status and syncing it. > If you've ever done anything with an i960, this is duck soup. >Making the front pannel logic is the real work, it wouldn't be right without >the FP! > My original 8008 system had a home-brew front panel. I would GLADLY do without that and just drop in a monitor ROM this time. >> What do ya think? > >Tim, your a sick puppy. THANK YOU!!!! > Tim Olmstead timolmst(a)cyberramp.net

29 years, 1 month

Dumpster Diving

by fmc＠reanimators.org

"J. Maynard Gelinas" <maynard(a)jmg.com> writes: > You know, I may have a dissenting view here, but I think some of > this stuff *ought* to go in the landfill. Sure, it will get destroyed, > but landfills will be our legacy 500 years from now. It would be > wonderful for a few high quality specimens of every type of computer made > to survive in museums, but we also want to give our future archaeologists > some reasonable sample of system distribution geographically. Oh well, > disagree if you like. Y'know, they don't just plonk the stuff down and spread a layer of dirt on top. They run it over with this nice bulldozer sort of thing that has steel wheels with cleats. Crunches the stuff up better. -Frank McConnell

29 years, 1 month

Printers and Finds of the Week

by josh＠netins.net

>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 >to it's test printout, the date stamp on it is 9/25/86. I recently found a Sears Roebuck & Company SR3000, which is oddly enough a RGB/Composite monitor made for the commodore line? Who knows. It even has a speaker in it! Picture is really nice. Made around the same date! Got it for only $10! If I don't use it for an old computer, it is a great way to view the camcorder stuff! Josh M. Nutzman +----------------------------------------------+ |"Life is like a river, you go with the flow...| | but in the end you usually end up dammed." | | -The Red Green Show | +----------------------------------------------+

29 years, 1 month

Saturday's Finds and a source in Central CA

by foxnhare＠goldrush.com

I finally attended a almost 'near-by' used computer store's "warehouse sale" and was somewhat impressed. The sale is held Saturday mornings in an old nursery greenhouse about 5 miles east of Lodi on Highway 12 (in California) Almost every table is covered with equipment, a good portion seems to be discards from local school districts and others are from who knows where. The good and bad news is much of it has had some share of the elements and are sold as-is, but they are priced to clear. (they were not "out in the open" like some machines you have reported, but almost). The store keeps most of the more-modern usable stuff (PC cards, motherboards, printers, etc.) and leaves behind a lot of Commodore PETs, 64s, Apples, old PCs, etc. Must have seen about 1/2 dozen apple ///s in varying states, even more apple ][s, (from some ][ pluses to a Platinum ][e w/keypad and a couple ][cs), plenty of drives (1541, apple and old hard drives; looking for an older hard drive? make a 'look for' list ready). Lots of monitors (condition unknown as many were from a repair shop that closed; also alot of composite Commodore monitors - 1702s and CM141s). Many PC enclosures (not my area so I didn't look too hard, did see look at a Commodore PC clone though (figures), motherboard still there, but no cards or drives, some older pulled cards in boxes. I did notice at least three Osborne computers, the one I opened to look at was a later model as it didn't have that tiny screen in the center but what looked like an 8" display. Bunch of Jasmine Hard Disk cases (external, backpacks, and clip-on drives) and such for people needing power/cases for projects (some with drives still in em). Also various cables (bunch of IEEE-488), power supplies (commodore 64 was in abundance) some books and other micellany. I didn't see any minis there, but you never know... We came out with: - Educator 64 (a Commodore 64 in a PET enclosure w/monochrome 14" display) computer is dead but it uses a standard 64, so no problem there. ;> - Commodore LP2031 PET/CBM IEEE-488 single drive (a IEEE-488 drive in a 1541 case) seems to be ill but much of the electonics and all mechanicals match the 41, no problem! - Jasmine Removable 45 drive (I am assuming a Syquest 44mb drive, it looks similar) still have to get a cartridge to test, but seems clean and ok. - Commodore 1541-II w/power supply & cable (so far so good) - C= Brick Power Supply (light colored one. still untested) - Sea Wolf & Clowns cartridges for the VIC-20. - 'Commodore' paddles and 'Commodore' joystick - An AC 'muffin' fan (works, now cooling the BBS!) - 6 Commodore books (including three nifty Hofhacker ones published by Elcomp) I left a whole bunch of other VIC & 64 books behind cost $30.00 (I could have walked out with more for the same price, but I was being good) Warehouse Sale: 10400 Highway 12, about 5 miles east of Lodi, 8 am to Noon on Saturdays (if you do go, let them klnow that Larry, the Commodore guy told ya about it!) The computer place is: Allen's To Go, in Lockeford, (209) 727-0477 -- I picked up at a couple thrifts some (soon to be) blank disks, the prices are cheaper than MEI/Micro's bulk pricing, $1 for a box of 10+ 5.25" DS/DD... Larry Anderson -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Visit our web page at: http://www.goldrush.com/~foxnhare/ Call our BBS (Silicon Realms BBS 300-2400 baud) at: (209) 754-1363 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-

29 years, 1 month

Printers and Finds of the Week

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 97-06-21 21:41:21 EDT, jeff h. wrote < 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 > to it's test printout, the date stamp on it is 9/25/86. What makes the > printer interesting is that it is a dual-interface model, with both a > standard centronics interface, as well as what appears to be the 6pin >mini-din for the Commodore 8bit serial interface. Were there any other >interfaces that used that connector that it might be? I've found >replacement ribbons for it on the web, but no spec info. It's a dot >matrix printer with between 7 and 9 pins, and cost me a total of $4 and > works great. > Jeff jeffh(a)unix.aardvarkol.com > -- >> back around 1991 i had bought the sr3000 model. it's an old 9pin dot matrix printer, and for the most part, seems to be compatible with the epson fx-85. i was able to find replacement ribbons for it at sears also. i was kinda thrilled to see it had a serial port, but then again, it was only for C= models. if anyone needs more info, i still have the owner's manual for mine. as a side note, i had it plugged into my laser128 running GEOS, the mac like interface that ran on the machine but never could get the sr3000 to work, the only driver GEOS had was for the sr2000. david.

29 years, 1 month

Printers and Finds of the WeekFrom: Sam Ismail <dastar@crl.com> To: Classic Computer Discussion <classiccmp@u.washington.edu>

by foxnhare＠goldrush.com

References: <199706150702.AAA14700(a)lists3.u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit RE Printers... Gorilla Banana, Tandy DMP 100, Commodore 1525, etc. It was a standard printer mechanism by some manufacturer (I suspect Shikosha (sp)) All were 7 pin characters. I remember some early Commodore Printers (before the 1525) were Epson units (one based in the MX70?) I also remember, for the PETs, our school had a SWTP dot matrix printer. Pretty nifty little bugger, no fancy coverings, you got to see all the gears (printed on 4" wide roll paper as I recall) liked like an early ticker machine or something like that. They also had a Commodore 4023 and a Diablo 630 (heavy as heck and made quite a racket too). I have owned a couple curiosities such as the Commodore 1520 printer plotter (another model type that bore through many company brands) four little tiny pens. Made neat sounds when it was drawing text and lines. :) I still have my Citizen iDP560cd printer, prints on wide register tape (2.?? inches) in two colors (Black/Red) has a Commodore interface and all that. (nowadays you usually see that model printer -w/parallel interface- hooked up to merchant ATM units). Other now gone units MPS-801 and Star NP-10. Other (classic) printers I now have are a Riteman F+ (precursor to the ProWriter Jr.) it has a very short ribbon (something like 20") but a unique feed system (able to print on index cards and use the first line of a page...). Everything else is somewhat modern late model dot-matrix and ink jets. Oh, and a Commodore 8023 wide-carriage dot matrix for my PETs. ------------- RE: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)crl.com> Subject: Beat this haul... >Ok, the weekend's not even over, and here's how I did: [snip!} >Commodore 64, Commodore 64C (two of 'em, one seems to be this weird clone >since the plastic looks different from the other one and it has no >markings) It's probably an older 64 in that slimline case that was selling a few years back to make an older 64 more resemble a 64C. I recall the ads in Compute's Gazzette and RUN. *** light applause *** that certainly was a haul as well as a good little adventure! Thanks for sharing it with us. :) I know of a Salvation Army in Oakdale that has a small basket full of TI carts including some nice AtariSoft titles... ;) Next time when I get there (and if they are there and are cheap enough) I'll pick some up. --------- Now for my haul (which was today, Sunday). At the Flea Market: 2 Atari Power Packs (15.3va and 31 va) $3.00 now all I need is some Atari DOS and utility disks (HINT! HINT!) 1 Commodore 64C power supply $1.00 a couple printer switchboxes $1.00 ea. Toshiba external SCSI CD-ROM drive (seems to be partially working) $3.00 14.4 Modem $2.00 External Amiga Drive $1.00 At the Thrift Store: Commodore SuperPET (Gosh was I lucky) $20.00 (w/Wordpro plus quick referencebooklet, PET to IEEE-488 cable, power cord and "the Manager" dongle still attached) Commodore 4040 Dual Drive $5.00 3 IEEE-488 cables $2.00 each The SuperPET isn't responding, but still worth it, (I cracked it open to see the guts, there are two daughterboards connected to the motherboard the topmost seems to be the RAM (which makes the computer 96k), and I assume below that is the 6809 co-processor and RS-232 driver. Now I have to hunt down more information... :) Four toggle switches peek out on the side which allow for the storing of the language you wish to use, (setting it to ROM mode did not seem to change the situation) Have yet to test the 4040, I hope it is functional. So far everything from the Flea Market seems to work (I have yet to test the 64 supply though). Nice day, though I think my checkbook is feeling a little thin... Larry Anderson -- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Visit our web page at: http://www.goldrush.com/~foxnhare/ Call our BBS (Silicon Realms BBS 300-2400 baud) at: (209) 754-1363 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-

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