> From: Richard Schauer
> My message to him, which I did save, is dated the evening of March 12,
> 1997, and I seem to recall the list started a couple of days later.
OK, so the 'unofficial' early archives which I'm hosting:
http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/cctalk/
do go back that far, so it doesn't look like we're missing much. The earliest
ones there are from 13 March 1997, so we may be missing a few, but not many;
the first posts are clearly 'hi, here's who am I' kind of things, apparently
in response to an earlier message, which does alas seem to be missing.
I scanned down the list, looking for names I recognized, and found this:
http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/cctalk/1997-March/0070.html
which seems like it must be someone's very first post to this list!! :-)
I do have the 'missing' archives (i.e. between Feburary 2005 and November
2014) in mail archive format, and once I figure out how to run Hypermail (this
has been on my to-do list since last September, maybe I'll take a run at it
today), I'll add them to the unofficial archives.
Once done, it may take Google a few days to index them, but once that's done,
it should be possible to search for content again.
Noel
I picked up a bit of an odball power macintosh 6100 a while back. It has a
486 cpu at 66 mhz in it as well, so you can run dos on it or something.
Overall looks to be in somewhat working shape, but does not boot. I do not
hear the hard drive spinning, I am guessing it is bad.I can get it to power
on to the little flashing icon with the question mark. It came with a huge
pile of cables for connecting extra monitors, and i should have a spare
keyboard and mouse too.
Anyone want this thing? I am open to offers.
I can't absorb another world. I have too much on the table, and am just not
interested in the PPC mac stuff. I thought it would be cool to have a
machine that would run both mac software and dos, but I already have plenty
of DOS machines here and did not bother.
I have a couple of other tiny performa PPC machines that a monitor can sit
on top of as well, those I know to be fully functional. those are up for
grabs too.
I can get pictures and specs upon request, that would require me to make a
spot on my desk and fire them up.
--Devin
SOL-20s have been all over the map. ?Ive seen similar units diverge by as much as $500 for nothing obvious I can see. ?The average for unknown, complete, decent cosmetic condition seems to be around $900. With extras probably $1300?
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-------- Original message --------
From: "Mark J. Blair" <nf6x at nf6x.net>
Date: 2016-10-15 11:56 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?
I have an opportunity to make a "reasonable offer" on a fairly complete SOL-20 system. It would include a floppy drive cabinet and some software, but no monitor. It's a "working when retired" system, so I assume that the keyboard has died of old age and some capacitors might have dried out; none of that bothers me, but it implies that it's probably not a turnkey system. I have to make the offer or not by tonight, based on when the owner is leaving on a road trip that will pass near me, with or without the system loaded up in his RV.
Now the problem is that I haven't been following SOL-20 prices, so I don't know what a reasonable offer might be. The only prices I'm aware of are the various buy-it-now prices I see on eBay, some or all of which I suspect are from sellers looking for top dollar and then some.
If any of y'all can help me figure out a reasonable price range for a complete-ish but not necessarily running SOL-20 system, I would appreciate that.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
Hi,
I have a PDP-11/23 system with a DSD-440 dual 8" floppy drive.
On reset, it prints:
28
START?
and waits for the operator to insert a bootable 8" floppy and type DY0.
The problem is I do not have a bootable 8" floppy.
The DSD-440 should be compatible with either RX01 or RX02.
Can anyone on this list help me out with a bootable 8" floppy?
I will gladly pay for the floppy + shippng costs.
Thanks,
Scott
PS: Pictures of the system can be found here:
http://sierracircuitdesign.ddns.net/temp/pdp11
I have an opportunity to make a "reasonable offer" on a fairly complete SOL-20 system. It would include a floppy drive cabinet and some software, but no monitor. It's a "working when retired" system, so I assume that the keyboard has died of old age and some capacitors might have dried out; none of that bothers me, but it implies that it's probably not a turnkey system. I have to make the offer or not by tonight, based on when the owner is leaving on a road trip that will pass near me, with or without the system loaded up in his RV.
Now the problem is that I haven't been following SOL-20 prices, so I don't know what a reasonable offer might be. The only prices I'm aware of are the various buy-it-now prices I see on eBay, some or all of which I suspect are from sellers looking for top dollar and then some.
If any of y'all can help me figure out a reasonable price range for a complete-ish but not necessarily running SOL-20 system, I would appreciate that.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
Nice Find Bill!
The mention of the kitchen computer makes me
wonder how many of those still exist
or... how many were sold?
Has anyone dome a detailed write up on it?
Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)
In a message dated 10/14/2016 4:14:32 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
writes:
I recently came upon the console for a Honeywell u-COMP DDP-516, which is
the older brother of the Honeywell Kitchen computer (DDP-316). Took a lot
of photos:
http://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=655
Bill
FYI
www.ebay.com/itm/112167073659
This guy was the second listing he's put up. I suspect he has more.
I tried the two sets he put up the first time, and they work fine on the 6085.
They are hard enough to find at that price, I thought I'd let people know.
He also has the Fujitsu MB8266A nibble-mode 64k used on the video board still listed
at a really good price
www.ebay.com/itm/111235545807
On Thu, 13 Oct 2016, Paul Anderson wrote:
> If they are not scanned, I'll pay to ship them to Al or whoever.
>
> Thanks, Paul
Paul, I went to the bitsavers site and found a fairly good selection of
LA120 docs (which may or may not contain all that I have) but they don't
seem to have much on the LA36. There Sun-1 and DPC manuals that I have
do not seem to be there either.
I looked for contact information on the sitev but I cannot find any,
I am willing to send these for scanning but I do not know how to make
contact, I have not the time, skill, or tools to scan them myself.
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those
Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : heads are naked!"
** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black
On Wed, 12 Oct 2016, jim stephens wrote:
> On 10/12/2016 9:47 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
>> any chance that it could be scanned, then shared that way?
I think this manual should be scanned for posterity but cannot do that.
> Something like what is on this page?
> http://www.solivant.com/sun100/
Nothing similar there.
> Bitsavers:
> http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/sun/sun1/
the one above is the previous version to the manual I have. According
to the first page, the single volume Sun-1 System Reference Manual from
July 1982 was replaced by two volumes the User Guide, which I have, and
the Programmer's Reference Manual which I do not have. The older
manual is probably more useful but this one is expanded (according to
revision page) to include 1/2" and 1/4" tape drives and Fujitsu disk
drives. I see that the CDC Lark operation is in here, the Sun-1 that
I dealt with had a CDC Lark cartridge unit and I still have some of the
old Lark cartridges and no possible way to read them.
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those
Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : heads are naked!"
** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black