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by bulk＠blit.ca

I have some NeXT hardware that I'm looking to re-home. Items include: 1 NeXT cube with an unknown expansion card 2 Monochrome monitors 2 NeXTStation "slab" workstations, non-functional Boxed NeXTStep installation media with manuals (may not be complete) 2 Mice, 3 keyboards, various cables, SCSI drives, odds and ends. (Picture at <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Sme9n3mG2USjNJa3BaSVFJekk/view>; the fruit is not included.) I'm located in Toronto; preference will be given to anyone who is willing to come here and haul it away. I *may* be willing to ship it somewhere, but if so, you're paying for it and it can't cause me a lot of hassle. Everything is believed to work unless marked otherwise; however, it's been years since I powered up any of these so I can't promise anything. The monitors both worked when I last tried them. One had succumbed to the dimness problem but the other was still bright, if blurry. Presumably, you could swap CRTs and have one like-new NeXT monochrome monitor. One of the two slabs would get partway through its boot sequence before hanging so it might be easily fixable. The other one was stripped for parts before I got it. The Cube worked the last time I tried it. I did, however, try to add a second drive, which didn't work. This may have screwed up the SCSI termination. My preferred contact email is <chris at blit.ca>. --Chris -- Chris Reuter http://www.blit.ca "I used to be able to count to 1023 on my fingers in two minutes, but then I got better." --Eb Oesch, <903f6dfe.0303242039.1f9e65b6 at posting.google.com>

9 years, 2 months

Univac I memory tank

by aek＠bitsavers.org

http://www.ebay.com/itm/162428766985 Asked if the mercury was still in it. They ignored me.

9 years, 2 months

Optical Mouse Pads

by bill.gunshannon＠hotmail.com

I am continuing the clean out of my vast collection of things I no longer have a need for. (Yes, everything you see me offer here was at one time used by me in real life!) I have three different model Optical Mouse Pads. NDE400306-003F NCW 402105-003 NDD 402105-003A Over time I have had optical mice from Sun3's, Sun4's, SGI's and even the old VisiOn mouse. I don't believe any of these to be from the Sun3 as it used bigger squares than these. Might not be any interest as it probably costs more to mail them (at least one at a time) than they are worth (unless someone needs one badly to complete a classic system!) So, anybody interested? What would you offer? (Expect about $7.00 for a Priority Mail Envelope which can hold more than one at a time.) bill

9 years, 2 months

VT52 keyboard question

by cramcram＠gmail.com

Hi, The "2" key on my VT52 is very hard to use. You've gotta pound it and you might get 2 "2"s for your trouble. I assume that the keyboard switch is made of unobtanium (If you know of a substitute chime in) so I'm thinking of swapping it for the "COPY" key which I guess is useless unless you have the built-in thermal printer. 1. Do you simply pull the keyboard button off the switch or is there a trick involved? 2. Any other gotcha's? Thanks, Marc

9 years, 2 months

sourcing Atmel 29Cxxx series flash roms

by dave＠661.org

I'm almost out of Atmel 29C256 flash roms. I use these primarily for P112 boot roms. I'd like some more because I still have P112 boards to sell... and I want them for other projects. Mouser, Digikey, and Jameco don't have it anymore. What are you guys doing to get these and equivalent chips? -- David Griffith dave at 661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

9 years, 2 months

HP 21MX (2105) needs good home

by tpisek＠pobox.com

The 21mx has found a new home.

9 years, 2 months

AIX documentation

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: geneb > This entire conversation is completely absurd. Perhaps. But she did ask "Am I legally allowed to resell these?" - which is rather a different question from 'If you were me, would you just go ahead and sell these?' (My answer to the latter question, BTW, is 'Yes.') Yes, I know that in so carefully parsing her statement, I'm acting like a lawyer. So sue me! ;-) Noel

9 years, 2 months

help needed installing USB to Serial Cable for ADTPro

by starbase89＠gmail.com

Greetings! I am trying to connect my IIc to my laptop through ADTPro and am having trouble getting the FT232R adapter I bought from Retro Floppy. The host computer is an HP Elitebook running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. When I first plugged in the cable, Windows tried and failed to find the device drivers. I downloaded the drivers from the manufacturer of the chip and and ran it. It told me installation was successful and device manager recognized that there was a USB serial port, but reported an Unknown Device and a Base System Device that didn't have drivers installed. I tried to use ADTPro but it didn't see a serial port. Has anyone run into this issue before? Thank you in advance! Joe Giliberti

9 years, 2 months

Fwd: Looking for Apollo Workstations for TV show

by steve＠oldcomputers.net

Get your systems on TV! Begin forwarded message: > From: Olivia Tanner <oktanner at gmail.com> > Date: March 13, 2017 at 11:45:13 AM PDT > To: steve at oldcomputers.net > Subject: Fwd: Looking for Apollo Workstations > > Hello Steve, > > I am working on an AMC TV series called "Halt & Catch Fire" and I came across your website during my search for Apollo Workstations. The show is set in 1993, and we're looking for three complete workstations from that era. Would you have any that we could possibly purchase or rent? If not, would you know of another place I could look? > > I didn't see these on your list of items, but we are also interested in Sun SparcStation 10 workstations and Silicon Graphics workstations from 1993 and before. > > Please let me know as soon as you have a chance if you would be willing to work with us. Thank you very much for your time! > > All the best, > > Olivia > > > Olivia Tanner > > Set Dec Coordinator > "Halt & Catch Fire"/ Season 4 > Stalwart Films, LLC > 4280 Northeast Expressway, Atlanta, GA 30340 > c: 661-889-3282 / o: 404-662-4052 >

9 years, 2 months

AIX documentation

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: geneb > A lot of /completely irrelevant/ technicalities, especially considering > the material in question is a physical object, not software. Doesn't matter. The various matters I raised (copyright, restricted rights, trade secret, and ownership) apply to printed documentation as well as software. > See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine That only applies if the item is i) not a copyright violation (i.e. it's an authorized copy), ii) legally the property of the entity selling it, etc. On the first, I have the impression (although I can't find, after some searching, a formal citation) that it is not legal to sell an un-authorized copy, even if the seller is not the entity which did the un-authorized copying. (I.e. if person B makes an un-authorized copy of person A's copyrighted content - an act which is definitely not legal - and sells said copy to person C, I don't believe that person C has the right to sell that un-authorized copy to person D.) Noel

9 years, 2 months

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