On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Glenn Roberts wrote:
> i'm interested in one of the Aim 65's. $20 seems like a fair offering
> price. you mentioned a bulk offer but then you mentioned his email address
> so wasn't clear if you guys were trying to coordinate this or let everyone
> deal directly with him. let me know how this pans out. tx.
I didn't want to seem like a slick willy trying to take over the
negotiations for everyone. But I think it would be best if one person
did the negotiating and made the deal. It depends on what everyone
wants. If it's OK with everyone else, I or Marvin can do the deal, then
let everyone know. Otherwise, if everyone wants to take a stab at it
themselves, that's fine. I think the easiest for all parties is to offer
a bulk buyout at a set price. I think everyone will come away winners.
Sam
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Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass
I apologize if this is a repeat question but I can't seem to find the
previous post.
What were the solutions to removing yellowing from the plastic cases? I
bought a printer that looks terrible. Not sure what caused it so any
suggestions helpful at this point.
thanks,
Greg
Hi.
I'm a small-time collector interested in older unix machines, though
I think I'd be more interested in micros if I had more room than
my apartment provides.
I was picking up a load of Sun VME-bus equipment today and ran across
some memory boards. These are definitely not for the suns, neither
multi-bus nor vmebus. The boards are perhaps 12"x16" and are populated
with what I presume to be memory chips (AMD 21-17559-01 / 8333EMM)
in 16 banks of 9 chips each. The connector along the back has 6
distinct edge-card pieces, with 18 contacts per connector per side.
All of the boards appear to be more or less of the same nature, but
one is manufactured by Motorola, and 4 have digital markings. Along
the back of three of the digital boards, there are two metal
protrusions. One says AM, the other M8210. The other digital board
is AZ M8210, and it has a lot of Mostek chips that I would guess
are 16kbit 300ns chips . .
Does anyone know what machine used these boards?
The sun equipment I salvaged was sadly without CPU board or power supply but
I did manage to grab 2 8mb boards and a bevy of SCSI and SMD controllers.
I guess I can add it to my collection of old sun hardware that needs
drives to become operational. Do SMD drives frequently show up at
swap meets, etc?
matt
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>
> 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've designed using that chip and still have my MCS-8 microcomputer set
manual from intel If you need help.
FYI another old ram chip that fits with that CPU is 2101 (256x4).
Allison
In a message dated 97-06-18 00:54:51 EDT, bill(a)booster.bothell.washington.edu
(Bill Whitson) wrote:
<< - Does anyone consider the Franklin Ace 1000 Apple II clone very
> collectible?
Yes. It was a legitimate alternative to the Apple II+ at a lower price. I
designed my first database on a 1000 and found it to be 100% compatible with
the II+ (it should have been since they copied the II+ roms) and very
reliable. I think that the Franklin line as well as the Laser series of
clones belongs in any Apple II collection.
Lou
At 12:22 PM 6/17/97 -0700, you wrote:
>1", "Lotus", "dBase II", "Wordstar", "IBM PC", and "Multimate". Anyone
>out there know what these are and what they go to? Thanks!
Well, "IBM PC" helps date it, as does "dBase II". Has to be early-to-mid
80's. I would guess, off the top of my head, PCjr cartridges? Do I win the
prize?
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Count me in for $20 plus shipping! Ill be @ E3, so no responces for a
few days.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Ismail [SMTP:dastar@crl.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 1997 12:34 AM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: AIM65
>
>
> Ok, here's the deal. Marvin & I are both in contact with a guy who
> says
> he has 14 AIM65 units. Hopefully you all have been paying attention
> and
> have read the messages describing what this is. Marvin & I are of
> course
> both interested in buying one, and we dicussed the possibility that
> others in the discussion would be interested as well. We feel that if
>
> enough of us get together and offer this guy a bulk buy-out, we can
> get a
> good price from him. Marvin & I are talking about $20 a piece as of
> now. If this is of interest to anyone, I can give you his e-mail
> address
> and you can ask specific questions, but make sure you mention you are
> a
> part of this one-shot buyout so that we get a good deal. I think
> first
> we should get a count of who is all interested and then approach the
> guy. He's in New Jersey, and I don't think shipping should be more
> than
> $5 per unit.
>
> His e-mail address is Mikeooo1(a)aol.com and he left his phone number
> for me:
> (201) 331-1313.
>
> Please reply if you are interested in going in together on this.
>
> Sam
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> Writer, Jackass
>
I think I saw this go by once before on the group, but -
- How do you get an Apple /// to boot from the ProFile?
Also:
- Does anyone consider the Franklin Ace 1000 Apple II clone very
collectible?
thanks
Kai
Sam,
I don't own any computers that use EBCDIC, but I use them every day at
work. EBCDIC - extended binary coded decimal interchange code is the
character set used on most (if not all) IBM mainframes and midrange
systems. (IBM S/390, S/36, S/38, AS/400 etc.) This set has its roots
in punched cards (and prior) and really makes more sense when viewed
>from that perspective vs. that of the way things are today. ASCII -
American National Standard Code for Information Interchange.
Back when I was in college, an instructor stated it this way:
(Speaking about the need for a uniform way to share info across machines.
"There are two ways to obtain a standard in the industry. The first is
to get a big commitee together and have all parties involved agree on
what it should be (ASCII). Or, be the largest company in the industry,
do it your own way and force everyone else to adopt your way of thinking.
Dan
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Sam Ismail wrote:
DOes anyone have a computer which uses the EBCDIC character set, rather
than ASCII (did I get the acronym right? what does it stand for
anyway)?
Just curious.
Sam
