i started a new job last week; one of my duties is going thru a
warehouse load (no joke) of older mac systems. everything from se30's to
older powerPC machines. question is this: since they all are being
scrapped and i cannot save them, anyone want me to pull some roms for
them? or any other useful components? let me know WHAT they are, and
WHERE they are, as I am not a mac tech. more than happy to see what i
can do for you people out there who want these.
-Eric
< At any rate, are the female DB-25 bulkhead connectors true RS-232 or som
< weirdie mutation like the console DB-9 port?
No, the PC DB9 is the mutant. ;) The DB25s are true RS232 with full
handshake.
< Also, I've got a DECMate III in the garage with no monitor or keyboard.
< But it's got an RX50 and some RD series drive. Obviously the RX50 can b
< moved to the MVII since it doesn't have one (but does have an RQDX3) but
< what about the RD series hard disk? I'd like to put it on the MVII for
< extra storage capacity but I seem to recall from playing with the
The RD can be used but you'll need the customer formatter to format it for
the RQDX3 instead of the DMIII controller.
< Also, although it includes Macro (of course) it includes NO other
< language development tools. Apparently it was a turnkey type system for
No basic?
< reading utility meters. Field service last logged-in in '92!!! And it'
< got 13000some blocks free on the disk. I'm tempted to get things like
< the GNU C binaries for it etc etc...and I always give in to that sort of
< temptation! =)
More disk, need more disk.
It's good little box. Add a scsi controller like the CMD units and hang a
real good sides disk... and wheee.
Allison
>Hey, Providence is not too far away.
Maybe I should head down that way some time with Allison...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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Hello - I just joined this list and thought I'd introduce myself. I'm an
avid classic computer collector and a big fan of the TRS-80/Tandy Color
Computers which were sold by Radio Shack. I have a homepage which is
dedicated to them:
http://www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca/~ab594/coco.html
I have approximately 30 computers in my collection (if you include
'doubles'). Of interest are an Apple III and an Apple Lisa (Mac XL), an AT&T
Unix PC, Commodore Plus4, a backlit Apple Mac Portable (not the powerbook -
the very early one) and some odd little early computer called a "Micro
Professor". It has a chicklett keyboard - came from Japan and has a
built-in BASIC language, but not much else. Since money is tight right now
(and what spending money I do have usually goes to my Marklin model railway)
I'm more interested in picking up the cheaper collectibles - things like a
Commodore 16, Mattel Aquarius, Atari 800 (not xl) etc etc. Have you seen the
Altairs on Ebay lately! Wow, $10000 reserve on one of them. Hope to chat
with you all soon!
Markus Blumrich - mailto:ab594@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca
Student: Physiology & Computer Science / University of Saskatchewan
http://www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca/~ab594/Profile.html ICQ:12361373
"Who's the more foolish - the fool, or the fool who follows him?" - Obi-Wan
Kenobi
I have an old Tandy 1000TL that needs a HD. The one that is currently in
it is a Western Digital 20MB IDE (with stepper motor). Although this drive
is still operating, it is VERY slow. Does anyone have a 20, 30, or 40 MB
3.5" XT/XTA IDE drive (without stepper) that they'd like to part with?
ThAnX in advance,
--
-Jason
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
ICQ#-1730318
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 22:31:03 +0000
From: John Huddleston <jlhudd(a)sos.net>
Subject: The New MORBBS
Hi,
You may have heard of the old Morrow Owners Review Bulletin Board that
was run by Sypko Andrae for so many years until he transfered ownership
to Jay and John Huddleston of Anacortes, Washington. We had the MORBBS
for a couple years until cost became a problem and we were forced to
shutdown the MORBBS. But now there is a newer, more accessible, and
definetly cheaper MORBBS on the internet. The new board is hosted by
sos.net and there are two sections to the Morrow page. The first
section is located at http://www.sos.net/~jlhudd/morrow.html and it is
designed to let you ask for help or for CPM related files from Jay's
huge archive. The second section of the page is the messageboard
itself. You can find the messageboard at
http://www.sos.net/~jlhudd/bbs/index.html. The messageboard works
through a CGI script written in the PERL programming language. You can
post messages on the board just like on the old bulletin board only
quicker. This way you can ask for help in a message and everyone who
reads it will be able to offer their services. The message board is
also useful for announcing any hardware, software, etc that is related
to Morrow computers and/or CPM software. You aren't just limited to
Morrow though. Anything you wish to discuss about old computers is
acceptable. There are going to be many helpful post on the message
board in the near future with links to helpful or interesting Morrow/CPM
websites. I hope that you are still interested in Morrows and old
computers and that will join us at our new messageboard soon! Thanks
for your time,
John Huddleston
the Morrow Online Homepage:
http://www.sos.net/~jlhudd/morrow.html
the Morrow Owners Review Online Messageboard:
http://www.sos.net/~jlhudd/bbs/index.html
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> From: Kees Stravers <pb0aia(a)iaehv.nl>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Philips XT with 768K
> Date: Monday, August 17, 1998 7:22 PM
>
> Those hard disks were very slow, and noisy too. They also suffer from
> sudden head stiction. You are lucky it is a Western Digital.
> Older machines had Miniscribe hard disks which were worse.
>
I've found that out. A 10MB MiniScribe that I in a Tandy 1000 (no suffix)
sounded like a weed whacker and started to smoke when it finally went bad.
> You can switch off the XT-IDE hard disk port with switch 8 of the
> DIP switches in the Philips XT and install a regular MFM disk controller
> and hard disk in the machine. Works like in any other XT.
>
> Kees
>
> --
>
> Kees Stravers - Geldrop, The Netherlands - pb0aia at amsat dot org
> Sysadmin and DEC PDP/VAX preservationist - http://vaxarchive.ml.org
>
> Net-Tamer V 1.08.1 - Registered
>
Probably the same ex-MITS person who contacted me last weekend.
Kai
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Yowza [mailto:yowza@yowza.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 3:12 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: Another Altair up for Auction
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Dellett, Anthony wrote:
> Same guy. Dunno, might be same machine. $10,000 reserve!
Looks like the same machine. So, that means the record price for an
Altair is a mere $4213 (!). Probably some slick Altair dealer contacted
Ms. Lemay and offered her a shiny low-mileage Altair for only half of her
$12,100 bid.
-- Doug
Yeah, right.
This whole thing's a put-on, I'm convinced.
Jeff
At 05:08 PM 8/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Same guy. Dunno, might be same machine. $10,000 reserve!
>
>Holycow!
>
>Tony
>
I was offered a NightHawk 5800 computer today. What the &*&% is it? I've
never heard of one. It was made by Harris Computer Systems and it's
supposed to have 16Mb, Memory tape unit, a 5802 processor, 64 Meg Local
Memory, 64 Meg Global Memeory, 2 slot front plane (front plane???), SCSSI
Interface (no that's not a typo), Eagle Eatha Net Card, 4 mm DAT drive and
two 1 G hard drives. The operating system and a LARGE pile of manuals are
included. Any one know anything about this? ANY idea what it's worth?
Is it usefull for anything?
Joe
