Found this in comp.sys.3b1. This is a nice machine, and the price is
right if you are in the Los Angeles area.
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AT&T UNIX PC (3B1)
1MB RAM
40MB Hard drive
Manuals
OS, GNU development tools
Good condition.
Free to good home. You pick up (Los Angeles area) or pay for shipping.
Send e-mail to jim(a)lutefisk.jetcafe.org.
Jim
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Jim Larson
jim(a)lutefisk.jetcafe.org
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| Yes, sir! That's the card. If you'd like more info, I *think*
these are
| detailed in my 1989 Tandy Computer Catalog I have at home...
Yep! Page 25,
"Now you can run Apple IIc educational and game software on your Tandy
1000...with the TRACKSTAR 128 adapter. Imagine having the best of both
worlds in one computer...Supports the use of Apple joysticks or game
port devices such as Muppet Learning Keys. [???]"
$399.95
Kai
Here is a current want-list in case anyone happens aross any of it or has
any of the stuff still stashed away and would like to part with it:
1) Mini-expander for Mattel Aquarius, as well as the data cable for the
datasette and any software.
2) Commodore 1531 datasette drive for the C-16 or Plus/4
3) Speech Editor cartridge for the TI-99/4a
4) floppy controller, with or without drive, for a CoCo-3.
If anyone knows the pinouts for the data cable for the Aquarius datasette,
that'd also be a huge help. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Jeff jeffh(a)unix.aardvarkol.com
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Collector of classic home computers:
Amiga 1000, Apple II+, Atari 800, 800XL, Mega-ST/2 and XE System,
Commodore 128D, 16, Plus/4 and VIC-20, IBM 5155, Kaypro 2X, Mattel
Aquarius, Osborne Executive, Radofin Aquarius, Sinclair ZX-81,
TI-99/4A, Timex-Sinclair 1000, TRS-80 Color Computer-3 and Model 4,
plus Atari Superpong and 2600VCS game consoles.
OK, lately, I have been placed in a sort of dilemna...
Since my post on a IIe that I had aquired (where I mentioned also getting
HX20 manuals and tapes) I have literally been deluged with e-mails/posts
>from people asking for MY MANUALS ;)
I contacted my aunt (the donater of said items) and learned that she still
had the HX20 lying in the basement. ("You want THAT one too?") Since I
now have a use for these manuals, here is my best solution to all you
manual-less HX owners out there.
For the greater good of the horribly addicted old and crappy computer
collectors, I will grudgingly go to my nearest copying center and make
copies (bound if desired) of my HX manuals available to you for cost.
I know this is not the best/cheapest solution but I am trying not to play
favorites here; this way everyone can be happy (or a reasonable facsimile
thereof) and I can keep my manuals :)
Anyone who is interested, feel free to contact me.
A NOTE!!! Each manual (there are 2, parts 1 and 2 of course) weighs in at
about 250+ pages each so that is something you might want to consider
before agreeing to a copy; please don't waste my time, or yours...
LeS
more(a)crazy.rutgers.edu
Due to massive amounts of caffeine & sleep deprivation, a bunch of people
on this list said:
>First off, I got two Apple ///+ machines in a thrift store!... yadda,
yadda, yadda...
[[ Editor's Note: I put this in the beginning so people wouldn't read the
first half of the posting and flame the HEdoublehockeysticks out of me...
Please read this with the tounge-in-cheek, winkie's throughout attitude
with which it was written... tho unforch, it's sadly true....... ;-) ]]
You people make me sick! Mr. I got 42 classic systems from one guy this,
and Ms. I saw 18 fully loaded computers at the thrift shop that!!! I've had
it up to here (imagine a hand held up above the head) with you weasels! Do
any of you send your good fortune / good luck my way? NooOOooOOooOOoo! All
I've seen the last three weekends of garage saleing is this:
A non-functional Atari 5200 game system and 5 games for $5 USD. System
worked but neither controller did... until a quick visit with Intern
Victorinox to clean the connections... A follow-up visit with Dr. Dremel is
in the works, but I've not had time.
Altho, the system did come with the trackball controller, and as the SN# of
the controller is 000786, I'm wondering if this item is relatively rare...
My 7-year-old loves it (as does Dad...) and I feel it will stay in my
collection for some time to come...
Back to my rant, I finally got up the nerve/time to go visit the Salvation
Army Thrift store on my lunch hour (the only T.S. in my town, AFAIK) and
guess what the sum total of computer-stuffs I saw there: an HP (I think...
no markings) LaserJet drum/toner cartridge. With no price, so they prolly
wanted $8million 'cause they didn't know what it was. And I'm sure it
wouldn't fit in my HPLJ5L (which BTW I paid full price for 'cause it was
the first non-business-owned 5L in town).
So, for all you "I get 77 like-new classic systems for a penny every
weekend" I have but one thing to say:
:-PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
At least the 3rd weekend in June, we'll be travelling 250 miles closer to
civilization, and may be able to find some interesting buys there. I'll
keep you posted.
Also, see my next post. I think almost *everyone* will be happy with me
when you read it.
See ya,
"Merch"
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Roger Merchberger | If at first you don't succeed,
Programmer, NorthernWay | nuclear warhead disarmament should
zmerch(a)northernway.net | *not* be your first career choice.
This is a bit new for most of this group, but anyone have an internal
floppy drive for an Amiga 500? And/or a dead Amiga 500 from which a
floppy drive can be scavenged?
thanks
Kai
| From: George Lin[SMTP:george.lin@documentum.com]
| For many years, I thought Microsoft released Flight Simulator
as their only
| game. I was wrong. I found a game that Microsoft released
for TRS-80
| Level 1 BASIC named Microsoft Olympic Decathlon. The game is
on tape.
| The manual is copyright 1980. It has the old Microsoft logo
on it.
Don't forget Microsoft Adventure, circa 1979, which was coded by Gordon
"HPFS" Letwin himself. I still have the poster.
Kai
At 02:23 PM 6/2/97 -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote:
>Mel Howard
>M. C. Howard Electronics, Inc.
>www.mchoward.com
>E-mail: mchoward(a)prismnet.com
>1-800-490-6896
>512-837-2525
>FAX512-837-3246
>I would recommend doing business with him, and I would be interested to
>learn what other "artifacts" he has available... as you don't find many
>folks with 1702's in stock, it would seem.
>
>Anyway, I hope this gets a few more classic machines working again...
>
>Thanks,
>"Merch"
>--
>Roger Merchberger | If at first you don't succeed,
>Programmer, NorthernWay | nuclear warhead disarmament should
>zmerch(a)northernway.net | *not* be your first career choice.
>
I went to the web page, and signed the guestbook. As a total coincidence, I
got directions to the place. As it turns out, it is about 2 blocks from
where I work. I will go visit the place, and see if he has any kind of
"list of stuff", specifically old stuff. After I go visit, I will post a
message and let you know what he's got that might be of interest. We know
he has eproms, but I'll head over there and see what kind of supply he has.
Isaac Davis
idavis(a)comland.com
indavis(a)juno.com
This is my first posting to the list. Reading about everyone else's
exploits saving old systems, I have to add what I got myself into this
past weekend.
After responding to a usenet posting about an old computer, I
discovered that the poster (who turned out to be a fellow MIT alum
three states away, a fact at least tangentially relevant to some of
what follows) was about to toss into the local landfill some old stuff
he had stored in his basement. A nice guy, he had offered this stuff
to everyone he knew, but (incredible as it may seem to this list) he
found no takers. Some scheduled home reconstruction required he have
the basement empty by June 1. I volunteered to drive the 3 hours one
way and pick it up. So, for nothing but my time and the cost of gas,
here's what I saved:
1) A Northstar Horizon. Nice condition. With 64k memory and compupro
z80 boards. Plus system software (cpm and northstar dos), hard sector
5.25 floppies, and a cardboard box full of docs, including the system
manuals, misc s-100 books, and even the documentation for Microsoft's
Fortran-80 in its original funky rust colored vinyl binder.
If anyone has any s-100 boards they can spare, and would be willing to
sell, that could help expand this system beyond the cpu-memory-floppy
controller basics it has now, I'd love to hear from them.
2) Two HP-86B's, with cp/m, modem et al cartridges, software for
waveform and circuit analysis, plus another box full of docs.
Unfortunately, no original external disk drives, so here's another
thing I'm looking for, if anyone has them to spare.
3) TRS-80 Model II disk drive system. Has three 8" drives in a single
enclosure. Haven't checked it out yet to see if it works.
4) The guts from both the CADR 6 and CADR 7 MIT Lisp Machines from the
late '70s. These were the basis for the machines later from Symbolics.
Actually, my new found friend decided to keep the steel racks for an
as yet to be determined project <G>. This may have been just as well
because I had no room to haul the two 6 foot tall cases back to my
house. So I had to leave them behind, power supplies still attached.
But I got all the internal boards, fans, cables et al from the lisp
machines, including the two 5 foot tall back planes and a couple dozen
boards measuring about 12" x 18" each. I'm going to try to get the
cases too, but I'm not sure I'll be able to.
The machines weren't running at the time he got them from someone at
MIT. Steel racks or not, I may have just acquired myself a lifelong
mission to search for someone who can make these work, since I'm out
of my league here.
Since this is a list devoted to classic computers, I don't need to go
into details about the couple of 386's, monitors, and one or two
hardware mutants (would you believe a Tandy-DEC hybrid?) that also got
tossed into my Toyota.
Altogether an interesting bunch of stuff.
Frank
Frank Peseckis
frank(a)5points.com
http://www.5points.com/