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by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Hello to all Had a pretty slow week last week only a few finds will later in week. Today I got a box load of SYM-1's somewere betweeen 15 and 20 of them. I still have not unpacked all the goodies I got today. After I count them and look them over I will offer them for trade or sale. I also got something called a IVS TRUMPCARD 500 by Interactive Video System and have no idea what it is, any help out there ? A copy of Disk Manager MAC in the box with manuals for .07. Apple Writer II model M6000 for $5.35. Also a Shimndru RPR-G1 GC Processor whatever that is, anyone ?? A HP model 2D-2 & 2D-3 Series X-Y recorder service & operating manual. Over at the goodwill a Apple Scanner flatbed model A9M0337 for $45. A Zenith Supersports 286 laptop for $5 and a AMIGA 520 for .25. Well that's all for now have tons of things to test out and will list later. Oh yes found a Next Cube today but the guy pulled it, he had two of them with KB, Mono monitors and mice complete units were $20. I will be going back next week to see if he will let them go. John Keep Computing !!!

28 years, 4 months

Sorry, I need to get this to PG Manney, there was

by photze＠batelco.com.bh

---------- From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Sorry, I need to get this to PG Manney, there was Date: Sunday, November 02, 1997 7:56 AM >> I'm new at collecting classics. What is a VIC-20? > >The VIC-20 was Commodore's first computer...2K of RAM (I think), did sounds >and color TV screen stuff. >The VIC-20 was my only >computer from '82-'86 unfortunatly I gave it away in '90, and I finally got >one to replace it today! Congradulations on getting your VIC-20, and I would like to know about it's specs. >I believe TV's in Bahrain are PAL instead of NTSC, or maybe I'm thinking of the United Arab Emirates. Yes, here in Bahrain they are PAL, but I'm an American, born and bred, and I'm only living here for a few years, so it's a multisystem, so it can do NTSC, PAL or any other major standard. They're PAL pretty much everywhere >from the UK to China, then in Japan, it goes back to NTSC. Thanks, Tim D. Hotze

28 years, 4 months

pong

by karmes＠kiva.net

I came across your email address when I was trying to find some information on pong. I was actually looking for what a current price maybe if you wanted to sell an Atari Pong home game. If you know where I may be able to find this informatin or you know it yourself, I would be very appreciative if you could share it with me. Thanks Kristi

28 years, 4 months

Classic Computer Manuals

by mark＠cyberlightstudios.com

Hi, I am a collector and classic enthusiast. I'm looking for copies of the original operating manuals for the following computers: Amiga 1000 Apple ][ plus Apple //e Apple //e Platinum Commodore 64 Apple DuoDisk Apple Disk II I also need original boot and os disks for these computers. If you have such materials, and they are in good-excellent condition, please email me at: mark(a)cyberlightstudios.com, and we can work out a price. I'd be very anxious to obtain these documents, particularly the Apple specific manuals. Thanks again, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------- If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first---Invent the Universe ---Dr. Carl E. Sagan

28 years, 4 months

apollo computers?

by sinasohn＠ricochet.net

At 03:25 PM 11/5/97 -0500, SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote: >some guy i bought a mac video card from said he had something called an >apollo workstation. he said it was a 68020/68030 with a 19 inch monitor, can >run *nix, and would only want ~$50 for it. anyone heard of this machine or Apollo made workstations similar to (in the eyes of an HP3000 guy) Sun workstations. They were bought by HP. They run X-windows, an adequate terminal emulator, and Mosaic. (I used one briefly during a stint at HP.) They might have Unix underneath, but I couldn't figure out how to do anything except connect to the 3000 and run Mosaic. --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad sinasohn(a)ricochet.net that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/

28 years, 4 months

Help Identifying RAM Chips

by Zeus334＠aol.com

In a message dated 97-11-05 00:04:30 EST, you write: << Oh yeah??? Military electronics has ALWAYS been about ten years ahead of what we see. That stuff is generally demilitarized (shredded) when it is taken out of service. The really high end stuff - crypto and countermeasures - always is destroyed beyond recognition. True, the computers in the F-16s and such may be a few years behind, but then they do not need such power. Things that need to do signal analysis on incoming radar pulses on the fly, or decrypting very high speed bursts of data do. >> Are you saying that, 10 years ago, the military had machines that could carry out calculations with the speed of a Pentium II -300? (I hesitate to mention the Alpha 5-433, because I think the alpha project was originally funded by the military)

28 years, 4 months

Core Memory

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<Seeing how it's advertised as a 16 Meg module, it probably isn't <a particularly pretty example of core. In my opinion, the older <core styles - where the individual beads and wires are actually I'd be surprized, as that is huge for a core system. It's far to big for one plane. My guess is it's a 16k. Way back however EMC did corestore systems of disk sizes for rapid store/recall to replace things like swapping drums and rotating media systems. It would be fun to get something like that and have it working! Allison

28 years, 4 months

Computer collecting humor.

by Philip.Belben＠powertech.co.uk

> > I have been told that the CDC Cyber 70/170-series used a 60-bit wordlength. > > Well, I am currently in a room full of 64 bitters (Alphas). Cray machines > as well... > > Many (all?) CDC machines are 60 bit machines. I have at home a memory bank from a CDC Cyber two-hundred-and-something (?) which is 18 bits wide. I had always assumed that this was 16 bits plus two parity but it doesn't fit into 60 bits either way. (Memory bank is huge quantities of 40ns and 45ns 64k x 1 static RAMs surface mounted on both sides of numerous daughter boards. Each daughter board is 64k x 18 and they stack four deep all over the "mother board" of the bank.) I always meant to use this in something, but somehow I never got around to it... Philip.

28 years, 4 months

Computer collecting humor.

by prp＠hf.intel.com

Strange word sizes were used in very early machines and special purpose machines, especially early military computers. If you look hard enough you can probably find any size, especially in the range 8-40. Here are some examples off the top of my head, but I probably have some of them wrong: > 4 (Intel 4004, etc) > 8 (Far too many to list) > 12 (PDP8, PDP12, etc) > 16 (Again far too many to list) > 18 (PDP1, etc) 19 Bendix G15, depending how you count > 20 (PERQ 1, PERQ 2) 22 Packard Bell 250, depending how you count (otherwise 23-24) > 24 (PERQ 4) <- Also Datacraft/Harris > 32 (Yep, a lot of those) > 36 (PDP10, etc) <- including IBM 701 series, Univac 1100 series 40 IAS, SWAC <- Here's the justification for the joke! 48 Burroughs 5500 etc. 60 CDC 6600, Cyber series 64, 128 IBM Stretch You get even more if you include decimal machines. (Is it fair to list the 4004 above?) > -tony Paul

28 years, 4 months

Two Items Found

by photze＠batelco.com.bh

Hello. My computer was broken, and I have the day off, so I spent it mostly calling company after company after company about classic computers. I've found the following: A Sharp "M-80" (Or some letter -80) with a built in display. Probably has an 8088 processor. Nothing except tape drive. Requested price: about $80 USD (In the local currency, so it's a little off) And also a Olvetti Pr-something, like Prosignia, or Pro something PC-1. Monitior looks like it's a 13 inch or so mono. Keyboard and CPU built in, with two 3.5" FDDs. I'm not sure if they're DS DD or DS HD. Does anyone have info on these? How much do you think that they'd go for? Thanks, Tim D. Hotze

28 years, 4 months

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