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by kaikal＠MICROSOFT.com

Anybody help this guy out? -----Original Message----- From: Lee P. Adams [mailto:adamsl@letu.edu] Sent: Monday, January 25, 1999 3:08 PM Subject: S-100 Boards Hi, I am a Senior Computer Science & Engineering student at LeTourneau Univ, in Longview, TX and for my Senior Design we have to design a SBC (single board computer), not a big deal. Now here is the trick the school has an old system that uses the S-100 type interface boards and they don't have anymore. Do you have any that you would part with/ Thakns in advance. Lee P. Adams

27 years, 8 months

PC/XT 512K RAM card

by rhblake＠bigfoot.com

Anyone have need for a fully populated 512k 8 bit RAM card, pulled from a fully working XT that had a 256k motherboard in it? Make a fair offer and remember that there will be a $3.25 or so shipping fee by USPS on it, should be able to go priority as cheaply as regular parcel post. USA and APO/FPO only please. First come first serve, I only have the one.

27 years, 8 months

hardware

by edick＠idcomm.com

These are relatively small boxes, i.e. on the order of the AT&T 6300's, but not purely rectangular in front profile. They are brown in color (just a guess, as I'm "chromatically challenged" and somewhat larger than the AT&T box. By the way, it seems to me that we (you and I ) were discussing ( via email ) the transfer of a number of S-100 components I was planning to discard. I was pretty sick back then, about a year ago, but now that the MD is on top of what's wrong I'm more or less functional again. You were, ( I believe ) interested in various S-100 video boards I have. One of them is a Microangelo, but was hacked by a friend and later given to me. I'd be happy to take up that discussion again, if you're interested. As before, all I want is the cost of packaging and shipping. I've had these for a long time and don't use them and, in many cases, never have. Last summer I donated ten or a dozen terminals and nearly as many daisywheel printers to the local thrift store (a charitable organization) just to take the writeoffs. I paid lots of $$$ for some of this stuff and don't just want to toss it, so, I'm looking for a "good" home. regards, Dick ---------- > From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)ncal.verio.com> > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> > Subject: Re: Alto II > Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 12:03 PM > > On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote: > > > If you can give me some guidance as to numbers, etc of the devices you're > > after, or for that matter, what you don't want, I'll make sure you don't > > end up with something you don't want. > > > > I have to go back there because my better half likes to visit the place and > > hasn't finished her search. > > Sorry, I didn't mean to imply it was a waste of time! Far from it. The > Altos boxes are neat. They're just not exciting as an S-100 box (which at > first glance you would think they are, but they aren't). > > I'm sure there's someone interested in adding these computers to their > collection (I have 2 or 3 myself) but the shipping charges on them would > be so extreme that most people would decline. > > Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Always being hassled by the man. > > Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 > See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! > [Last web site update: 01/15/99]

27 years, 8 months

Alto II

by edick＠idcomm.com

If you can give me some guidance as to numbers, etc of the devices you're after, or for that matter, what you don't want, I'll make sure you don't end up with something you don't want. I have to go back there because my better half likes to visit the place and hasn't finished her search. Dick ---------- > From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)ncal.verio.com> > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> > Subject: Re: Alto II > Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 10:42 AM > > On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote: > > > I was at a local thrift store yesterday and spotted a couple of oddly > > shaped boxes with a designation indicating them to be ALTOS boxes. One has > > a tape drive of some sort and the other has a floppy disk drive. Does this > > mean anything to anyone? IF someone wants them, I could snag them and > > ship. I doubt they will cost much more than $10 each. > > They are multi-user CP/M (or MP/M) machines circa 1982-1986, mentioned > here from time to time (we really need a comprehensive database that > describes these machines so that people can reference the database before > posting about the same stuff over and over). Having nothing to do with an > Alto, they are worth anywhere from free to whatever someone would be > willing to pay (which may surprise/shock you). > > Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Always being hassled by the man. > > Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 > See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! > [Last web site update: 01/15/99]

27 years, 8 months

Legitimacy of the Ten Year Rule.

by kurtkilg＠geocities.com

On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Bill Yakowenko wrote: > 2. Nothing PC- or Mac-compatible can ever be classic. Sorry, that's > just an indisputable fact. :-) How about a VAX emulating a PC? > 5. The ten year rule should apply to the date when a thing dropped off > in popularity; if it was still in common use eight years ago, it is > not yet classic. (Justification: if it is still in common use, > there will be other places to discuss it.) How do you define 'common'? What percent of the population must use it? What if it's uncommon in my city and common in yours? > 6. Do I really need to add "IMHO" here? :-) No. If you don't add one, I won't add one.

27 years, 8 months

Legitimacy of the Ten Year Rule.

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 09:35 AM 1/25/99 -0800, Sam Ismail wrote: > >But unless you have a wireless portable that you don't mind hauling around >with you, a book is more convenient to take on your hunting trips for >quick reference. Any portable device with a display and storage abilities (on floppy or RAM) of a meg or so could easily contain such a web page, as text. Even a book won't beat a brain when it comes to being able to spot a significant device hidden in a pile of other junk. That, after all, is what each of us has trained our brain to do when on expedition to an auction or a warehouse. - John

27 years, 8 months

Legitimacy of the Ten Year Rule.

by yakowenk＠cs.unc.edu

] On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Doug <doug(a)blinkenlights.com> wrote: ] Subject: Re: Legitimacy of the Ten Year Rule. ] ] On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Buck Savage wrote: ... snippage ... ] ] A "universal" rating/certification system, similar to the way coins are ] graded, would be ideal. But I don't think you'll ever get this group to ] agree on anything -- just do it! (And then sell a book.) ] ] Forget the word "classic". A guide that gives production numbers, ] variations, years, criteria to judge condition, price, etc. would be cool ] -- I'd buy one, and I'd buy a new copy every year as you updated prices ] and other info. ] ] Start with Hans P's list of machines (and pay him royalties). ] ] -- Doug I don't believe it. *THIS*, coming from the same guy that blew his stack over his secret bargain bid getting exposed? Which do you want, well-known (and high) dollar-tags attached to everything, or obscurity and bargains? You can't have both. We have a choice between an entrenched mainstream collector's marketplace, with standard price guides, and with all the neat stuff ending up in investors' display cases, off-limits to mere hobbyists; or an unrecognized garage-sale niche marketplace, with dispute as to the value of anything, but with many of these machines clanking away in our basements. It seems we have no real choice about it, we will eventually end up with the former. But there is no need to hurry it. Especially if you are one to bitch when one of your bargain-basement bids get exposed and immediately out-bid. Bill.

27 years, 8 months

FYI: MEI/Microcenter is out of 5-1/4" diskettes

by Philip.Belben＠pgen.com

>>Ouch!. 8" disks are difficult to find, 5.25" disks are difficult to find >>(what about 1.2 Mbyte ones - are they still available?), 3" disks are >>impossible to find. I'd better start hoarding them... > > You can still buy 8", 5.25" HD and 3" disks. Trouble is, they may be *Really* > expensive; I noticed on the Imation web site a couple of months ago that (from > memory) a box of 8" disks was over US$100. > > 3" disks are still available new from at least one place in the UK, though they > are over 2 pounds each. This sounds useful. Do you have any more information (like the URL of the Imation web site) please? Philip.

27 years, 8 months

Unix for 8080/Z80? [Re: WooHoo!! PC/XT Unix anyone?]

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<Any Unix clones for 8080/Z80 systems? It ought to be doable, given that th <original Unix was done on a 64KB address space machine... Uzi in a 64k machine required 32k of it for the kernel and the rest for apps. It was a full swaping scheme so hard disk for similar was a must have. Banking/mmu made it more palateable as you could have the kernel in it's own space. IT was not uncommon if you could afford the cost (in late 81 it was about $159 for 64k) of ram to have large banked memory on s100 in the early 80s. I was running a multi z80 system then with 256k. Yes, UZI unix, see WWW.psyber.com/~tcj as they have a page on it. IT was z80 FYI and has been ported to z180 and z280. Allison

27 years, 8 months

OT: iMAC adapters

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

Yesterday someone posted about a company that makes printer adapters for the iMAC. This morning I found a site that makes adapters to let you use ABD, USB and serial devices for the iMAC. "http://www.griffintechnology.com/" Joe

27 years, 8 months

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