A long time ago I told everyone here that I had a computer in my closet
somewhere, and someone asked me to let them know when I found it.
"Your Computer"
with sound and music
for family, business, educational and entertainment use
It's rubber keybad seems identical to the Timex Sinclair, well, not that black
Sinclair with the membrane keyboard, but the other one. It's housed in white
plastic, green rubber keys and...
Japaneese intructions - except for the BASic listed programs inside.
Z80A CPU
Expandable to 16k ram or 32 k ram
42 Keys Keyboard
programmable speaker output
Direct drive a thermal printer
24 rows by 32 characters video display using either home tv or monitor
22 graphic symbol available
Reverse video characters available
Built in cassette interface (I don't know *what this might be..)
High resolution graphics capability
Automatic repeat on space bar insert, delete and cursor control keys
Programmable slow mode and fast mode
.. and least that is what is says on the box. It's in its original box and
styrophome.
Who wants it? It'll cost you the postage to send it. I live in Somerdale,
NJ.
mhop(a)snip.net
I asked one of the old IBMers at work what this powerstation 550e i had was.
turns out it is indeed part of the RISC6000 family. I guess what i have is
just a workstation that ran batch jobs or something like that, not too useful
by itself it seems. I presume it runs/ran AIX. it was difficult to find any
info it. web search didnt bring up anything, and 800-IBM-SERV handles the
RISC6K family, but they referred me elsewhere for this 550e, since they didnt
know what it was. it only cost $5, and it is an interesting addtion to my
ever growing esoteric collection of ibm machines. now, if i could just get
this powerstation to run with my PC RT...
david
Greetings All,
I've been making the rounds of Seattle-area thrift stores. Not much
CP/M stuff, mostly PC compatible. Found several XT's with hard drives
and full of cards for $5 each. Most ISA boards such as Mono, serial,
parallel go for $1. B&W and CGA monitors go for $3-10. 5-1/4" DSDD floppy
drives go for around $2 each. There's one store that has a Televideo system
for $60. Rather steep, but they have a 1/2 price sale Sunday and I'll
probably grab it then - good companion to the 803H in my collection. There's
a huge IBM Selectric Memory typewriter for $10, which I'll also grab at the
1/2 price sale. I recently found two Kaypro-II's for $5 each. Not much
Apple hardware.
How does this compare to thrift stores in other areas of the country?
Regards,
Jason Brady jrbrady(a)delphi.com Seattle, WA
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consider to consider using crl.com or I will find you and kill you to
save you from the misery.
I can also be e-mailed at dastar(a)siconic.com. All mail to dastar(a)crl.com
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Thank you.
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Attend the First Annual Vintage Computer Festival
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A church with which I work was recently given an Apple IIGS (with "Woz"
signature on the front, I notice).
Does anyone have any children's educational software for Apple that he/she
would be willing to donate or sell cheaply? You can get tax credit if you
want.
Please e-mail me -- manney(a)nwohio.com -- or contact the church directly:
Pastor Leo Stewart
Union Avenue Alliance Church
12700 Union Ave.
Cleveland OH 44104
(216) 752-6184
Thanks -- you'll be doing inner city kids a great favor.
P Manney
"Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire."
I have no idea why people think I am the list-op of classiccmp, and I
don't know how popular this opinion is, but I am, in fact, NOT the
list-op. Bill Whitson is and any list related questions should go to him.
This is the second time I've received a list related request. Go figure.
Please update the cell in your brain which stores this information. Thank
you.
Now someone help this poor guy.
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Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 04:35:10 -0500
From: Mark W Kuefel <kuefel(a)sky.net>
To: dastar(a)crl.com
Subject: A DIRECT PLEA TO ISMAIL FOR HELP (and kuefel somehow finds the shift key, details below)
Sam
I know this is pretty stupid but I need your help if possible.
The classic computer list is generating far too many messages
in the firehose mode for me to possibly keep up with. I'd like
to go to digest, if available or, if necessary, unsubscribe for
a while (I've been ill lately and sometimes lack the energy to even
log in.)
Now the stupid problem. I seem to have "misplaced" my subscriber
info. I know that's dumb and, generally, I'm pretty good at keeping
the email message as well as a hardcopy printout.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Attend the First Annual Vintage Computer Festival
See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!
There's still plenty of them around. Most companies that had a S/36
have upgraded to its replacement, the A/S 400.
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From: John R. Keys Jr.
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Slow day
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 1969 7:00PM
Found a HP vectra QS/16 complete monitor,kb, and computer it will go
into
storage for now. Only other find today was 5 plastic bags at a thrift
with
S/36 System Support Programs, RPG, COBOL, utilities, and microcode from
1983
there a total of 45 - 8" diskettes. Each bag was $1.40 plus tax. Now
were
do I find a S/36. Keep computing!
I just passing this along, can anyone help him repair his drives?
Reply to him, Loufer(a)aol.com, not me.
Thanks.
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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 23:24:51 -0700
To: dlw(a)neosoft.com
From: Loufer(a)aol.com
Subject: http://www.neosoft.com/~dlw/comp/comphave.htmlCromemco Z2D
Dave, I have an entire Cromemco Z2D system that I purchased at an
auction several years ago. It was completely disassembled, and was
noted as 'computer junk' and sold as a lot. Assembled, it had two
monitors, two 5-1/4 drives, two 8" (wood cabinet) drives and many
extra S100 cards. There's an analog-digital IO card, 3 64K mem, 6 16K
mem, Dazzler (still new and unassembled), set of joysticks, and other
misc hardware. Although I'm not interested in selling it (it WAS my
first computer after all), but I sure could use some help finding
someone to repair one of the paired 8 inch PerSci drives.
Michael
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