Doug Yowza wrote:
You lucky dog! You got this from the guy that was spamming usenet a
while
back about trading his Altair for an IMSAI, didn't you? He told me the
Icom wasn't for sale when I asked him about it. Damn.
Doug,
First of all I apologize to everyone on the list for
the wasted bandwidth caused by my screwed up posts.
I use Hotmail to view the list because you guys are
so prolific that it would load up my primary email folders.
But Hotmail seems to have a problem with messing up my
posts to the list as you can see. Oh well, since I only post to the
list every three or four months maybe it will be tolerated.
Anyway this was my reply to your message...
My Attache is a different one from the one you made
reference to. I too emailed that guy but he never replied
to me. My guess is that he got a lot of response and
got cold feet on the deal. He's most likely still sitting
on it.
A week ago I made contact with a former employee of an
Altair dealer. When they closed the doors he put a bunch
of the stuff in his attic. I struck up a deal and drove
1600 miles in three days to retrieve it all. The Attache
was part of it. I worked for this one. The 800 mile straight
through in one day trip just about did me in. I am getting
too old for this.
Bob
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Several weeks ago I inquired about the existence
of an "attache" version Altair. Several kind folks
offered their input as to what this might be.
I was asked to share any information about this
unit if it became available to me. I have since
acquired it and have uploaded some photos for anyone
who might be interested.
Here is the link...
http://home.att.net/~rwood54741/50.jpg
It was made by Pertec when they were still producing
MITS branded systems. The case carries the name
"Icom Attache". But the innards are all branded
MITS. Even the keyboard. Electronically, it is an
Altair 8800b with the addition of a MITS keyboard. It
incorporates all the same MITS circuit cards and the same power
supply board as the 8800b. For that reason it is
essentially a keyboard Altair 8800.
The serial number of this example is 153 which leads
me to believe that a precious few were produced and it
is probably extremely scarce. I obtained it from an
individual who worked for an Altair dealership which
was in busuness in 1977 and 78 and he
verifies that only a few were sold. I have docs on it.
Bob Wood
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Several weeks ago I inquired about the existence
of an "attache" version Altair. Several kind folks
offered their input as to what this might be.
I was asked to share any information about this
unit if it became available to me. I have since
acquired it and have uploaded some photos for anyone
who might be interested.
Here is the link...
http://home.att.net/~rwood54741/50.jpg
It was made by Pertec when they were still producing
MITS branded systems. The case carries the name
"Icom Attache". But the innards are all branded
MITS. Even the keyboard. Electronically, it is an
Altair 8800b with the addition of a MITS keyboard. It
incorporates all the same MITS circuit cards and the same power
supply board as the 8800b. For that reason it is
essentially a keyboard Altair 8800.
The serial number of this example is 153 which leads
me to believe that a precious few were produced and it
it is probably extremely scarce. I obtained it from an
individual who worked for an Altair dealership which
was in busuness in 1977 and 78 and he
verifies that only a few were sold. I have docs on it.
Bob Wood
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G'day,
I've come across aforementioned ISA board and some accompanying software.
This is really a two-board set, held together firmly with screws. It uses
two adjacent 8-bit ISA slots. On the top board the biggest chip is
Weitek WTL1066 - a "FP data path" (Floating Point? Field Programmable?).
There are no external connectors.
How I can test it? Will it work in Pentium-class motherboards? (It currently
sits in a computer very much alike the original IBM AT).
What can I use it for? Cracking RC5 would be cool :)
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Sergey Svishchev -- svs{at}ropnet{dot}ru
At 09:54 08-08-98 -0500, you wrote:
>A few people have asked what's the deal? Didn't I retire from collecting
>antique computers?
<read with much amusement, then snipped>
I knew it! I keep telling people, 'It's in the genes. If you truly love
the field, and the equipment, scrounging is as much a part of you as
breathing, and you'll not be able to give it up for any length of time.'
Do they believe me? Nooooooo. Not until something like this happens. ;-)
Welcome back. Mind the aisleway.
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(Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin(a)jps.net)
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own
human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
--- You wrote:
Hummm... I saw a large box full of those in an electronics store.
Unfortunately, that was about two years ago, and the store is about two
hours away by BMW (Bus, Metro, Walk). And they were charging something
like $8 CDN each.
The specs listed on the top of my VIC-20 power supply are:
INPUT: 117V 47-63Hz 40W
OUTPUT: 10VAC 30VA
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I think I'll wind up buying one from somebody else on the list anyway. Thank you though!
-- MB
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On Sat, 8 Aug 1998 "Lawrence Walker" <lwalker(a)mail.interlog.com> wrote:
> All non-Mac HDDs have this problem. Apple wanted to monopolize
>their market. It's been a while since I struggled with my Mac+ but
>there are several programs IIRC that you can use to format your HDD
>so the Mac will accept it. I'm not sure but check out the Silverlining page
>they have a free or shareware Lite program. There is likely something as
>well in the classicmac archives http://www.zws.com/classicmacs/
Here's something that I found on a web page:
Apple HD SC Setup 7.3.5 has a hidden switch to let you format ANY hard disk.
To enable it you must edit resource "wfwr", ID 67 and change $00 to $ff ! [Use
ResEdit to achieve this.]
It seems to work; at least, HD SC Setup no longer quits on my (emulated) Mac
with SCSI MO drive. Haven't got a blank disk to test it out fully though.
(Aside: Is the old pre-System 6 Mac OS software still on the Apple site?)
-- Mark
I got the SE to go. Now, I need to get the SCSI harddisk I have
to work for it. It has a (limited) version of System 6.0.8, and I have
a 200 meg SCSI external I plan on using.
How do I get the Mac to initialize the SCSI disk? (I can worry about
System 7 later...)
Also, it has an 800k disk... Is there any way to cheat and make a PC produce
these? Or will the Mac take 720k disks too?
(I can make a Mac-formatted 720k disk with hfstools... But I can't format
the SCSI disk with it - no SCSI controller in the PC.)
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