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by alhartman＠yahoo.com

Nope, not gonna take it back. In my circle of users in Brooklyn, EVERYBODY with a Model I had a doubler if they had disk drives. EVERYBODY. I'm sure there are people on this list who didn't. Because you guys can be pretty stubborn, ornery and non-standard. But anyone with a Model I who didn't get a doubler locked themselves out of lots of software, halved the storage capacity of their system, and had lots of trouble reading disks. I bought my system as a 16k Level I, and upgraded it to a 4 drive 48k Level II. Many people upgraded piecemeal. And a doubler was one of those "must have" upgrades. That was my experience. Having worked for Stony Clove Computer Center, Spectrum Projects, Zebra Systems, Colorware and Alpha Products. Al

16 years, 1 month

Cayman GatorBox CS firmware update issues

by thrashbarg＠kaput.homeunix.org

Hi, A friend of mine gave me a GatorBox CS recently. It works nicely, but the firmware version is 1.6.1. I tried to update it to 3.0.3 with the software at http://alfter.us/files/gatorbox/gatorbox-cs/ but when it goes to reboot into update mode it stops with the Ethernet LED on. The same thing happens when I try to do a software reset. A power cycle gets it unlocked but it's no longer in update mode. Any thoughts? Cheers, Alexis.

16 years, 1 month

Micro Cornucopia and Dave Thompson

by jack.rubin＠ameritech.net

Just a quick update to save a little nailbiting and head scratching - Dave Thompson is _not_ at the phone number/address listed under his name in Bend OR. His ex-wife answered the phone and was not particularly interested in providing information on Dave or his current whereabouts - "some where in the Valley, I think..." was her answer when asked. Maybe a Priority Mailing may do better but I don't think so. I've also contacted several former Micro C staff/contributors and basically the story seems to be that Dave pretty much walked away from the computer scene and doesn't particularly want to be "found" at this point. My plan is to scan the full run (I've finished 37-53 and am waiting for the earlier issues to arrive). I'll post them (either on my site or somewhere else) with the notation that they will be removed on request. This stuff is too cool to be left moldering in old boxes. Jack

16 years, 1 month

Looking for MikroMikko 3 manuals ($$$)

by sellam＠vintagetech.com

Here's an obscure one. I need to find some manuals for the Nokia MikroMikko 3 computer from the mid-1980s. Perhaps someone from the Scandanavian countries might be able to assist? Specifically, I'm looking for the "RTX II Monitor Manual User's Guide" and the "RTX II File Management Reference Manual and User's Guide". Originals or PDFs will do at this point. I'm offering a negotiable bounty on this one. Let me know if you have any and what it would cost to get either the manual or a copy. Please contact me directly. Thanks! -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

16 years, 1 month

Anybody in Gardena CA like free old macs?

by teoz＠neo.rr.com

http://68kmla.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12990&p=126641#p126641

16 years, 1 month

Apple Lisa 1 for sale

by ukarmansalok＠gmail.com

Hi, Are you still selling this? Thankyou

16 years, 1 month

would this work?

by brianlanning＠gmail.com

Forgive my lack of hardware knowledge... What if I took this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310201616232&rvr_id=&crl… Desoldered the female ISA connector, then soldered it to the underside of a passive backplane. Would I have goofy reliability problems? Would it even work? brian

16 years, 1 month

Collection Reduction

by woodwp_98＠yahoo.com

Hello, We are located in the Raleigh, NC area and have a three car garage with a single room above it. We are planning on converting this to an apt for my son. The problem is it's full of stuff I've collected since the early 80's. The collection is heavily slanted towards early computers and electronics. These pictures are of a single room, just showing different views of the collection when it was spread out prior to storing it into stacks. eCollection ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/60147280 at N00/sets/72157622274120485/ ) My question is, does anyone know of someone local to the Raleigh area that could help us in the sale of this? Regards, WPW

16 years, 2 months

Honeywell CC690 uPAC

by adrian＠adrianwise.co.uk

I have a couple of uPAC modules from either a Honeywell DDP-516 or just possibly from a H316 machine. They're marked CC690. They're obviously some form of bus termination - just a series of clamp diodes to GND and some lines with pull-ups to +6V. The normal I/O bus termination on a DDP-516 is CC154, and I'm pretty sure that there is no termination uPAC needed on a 316. These were pulled from a machine in about 1984. I have some distant memory that they are an "upgraded" CC154 and can be used in place of a CC154. Can anyone confirm that - either from documentation or just from recollection? Adrian

16 years, 2 months

Bootable Model III disks...

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

C'mon guys... Nobody with a Model I and E/I with disk drives left it stock without a doubler of some kind... and... If you had the LNDoubler, you could do 8" and 5.25" (and now 3.5") single and double density disks all with the same board. I don't know of any board that only added 8" without adding a Doubler as well. I'm not saying there wasn't one... I just don't know about it. Percom, Tandy, LNW and Aerocomp made doublers. I think only the latter two supported 8" drives. Any Model I equipped with a doubler should be able to copy a Model III bootable diskette. Al Keansburg, NJ

16 years, 2 months

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