Well, guys & gals, remember me? I'm one of the folks who lives in the
boonies that owns 70% of the classic machines in a 50 mile radius!!!
I travelled just a bit closer to civilization over the weekend, and did a
lot of gar[b]age saleing on Thurs. & Friday, and I did get one good find,
well, for at least the thumb area of Michigan (lotsa farmers)...
A TI-99/4A (works) with RF Modulator, Joysticks, and 20 cartridges... $5.
It even came in a computer/game holder, to keep everything organized.
(haggled from $10... had to give wifey a lesson on "Don't ask me what it
is, when I'm playing dumb!" ;-)
Tho this isn't perfectly legit, I also picked up a Sony AC/DC (with 3 types
of DC!) 5" color TV, which I plan to use as a monitor / portable monitor
for one (or more) of my CoCo's. (The TI didn't like it... :-(
Question: One of the cartridges has a triangular picture-hanger rivited to
the case... would this be some sort of store demo or something?
Anyway, keep digging, you'll eventually come up with something!
Have fun,
"Merch"
--
Roger Merchberger | If at first you don't succeed,
Programmer, NorthernWay | nuclear warhead disarmament should *not*
zmerch(a)northernway.net | be your first career choice.
In a message dated 8/17/97 9:45:58 AM, you wrote:
<<Hi Dave, just curious how the minimum bids were arrived at as they are
quite
high based on the prices I see out here in California.>>
Marvin, Well, I'm here in Jacksonville, Florida and I source all of my finds
>from the AOL classifieds and from a number of newsgroups. The prices are just
my best guesses to minimum "shipped" values. The true value of any
collectable is what the market will bare. I think I'm letting some of these
things go at a pretty modest level (at least from my reference). Thank you
for your comments, I'm going to keep trying to make it a better page. Best,
David Greelish
Classic Computing Press
Jacksonville, FL
historical(a)aol.com
http://www.cyberstreet.com/hcs/hcs.htm
Does anyone have any info on the I/O port on the back of the HP9100
desktop calculator? I believe that HP once produced a manual telling you
how to link up homebrew/custom peripherals, but I don't have it, alas
What I really need is a pinout, brief signal descriptions or timings, etc.
I want to be able to output a few on/off signals (I don't care if they're
binary or BCD encoded).
-tony
If this ends up being a duplicate, my apologies. The first one was sent
while I may not have been subscribed under my new address.
In any case... yes, a new address. I had to ditch the old one due to
spamming. Please note the new one: kyrrin2(a)wizards.net.
Caveat emptor!
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"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..."
<controllers. There was a NSC800 cpu module, and when I removed it, sure
<enough, there was a NSC800 N-1 cpu. No idea what that is though. Heaps of
<switches, leds and stuff behind the front panel, too.
Sounds like a National semi development system. The NSC800 is a cmos z80
that is 8085 bus compatable if I remember right. Generally speaking
development systems tend to be scarce as they are not hight volume.
Allison
Hi, folks,
Well, it had to happen eventually I guess. I've had to change my address
due to spamming of the old one. Please note that my new address will be
kyrrin2(a)wizards.net.
Caveat emptor!
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Bruce Lane, Sysop, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fidonet 1:343/272)
(Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin2(a)wizards.net)
http://www.wizards.net/technoid
"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..."
Hi
I found a scrap place today that ahd a few computers - got on good terms
and now they are going to ring me whenever they pick one up. :) Apparantly
they just scrapped an old Xerox box, but no details, and they get the
occasional Altair and stuff. Anyway, they had little on hand that
interested me (I already had their Amstrads, and the Commodore 128D's had
no monitor or keyboards, so I thought I would think about them), but I did
pick up something - I just don't know what it is. It's about the size of a
original PC/XT, but the case is blue - with a blue clear panel on the
front. Has two com ports and a vdu port, and two 8" drives. I opened her
up, and she has a rack with everything plugging in at teh back, inc lots of
controllers. There was a NSC800 cpu module, and when I removed it, sure
enough, there was a NSC800 N-1 cpu. No idea what that is though. Heaps of
switches, leds and stuff behind the front panel, too.
Anyway, this is somewhat outside my normal collecting range, and isn't
probably of much interest, but at a couple of dollars I thought it might be
worth looking into it. Can anyone tell me what it is, or anything about
it?
Thanks heaps,
Adam.
Hello, again...
Well, the Altair scans got here today, and I must say that the quality is
excellent. There's stuff for the 8800b, the 8800, some add-in boards, and the
"computer-notes" pamphlets. All told, with the schematics, there's about 90mb
of info. Based on a quick count, there's probably 750-1000 pages of info. The
files are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
As soon Bill can reach his computer again, I'll Fedex them to him to post on
the ftp site.
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From:
Tom <tomxs(a)hotmail.com>
4:22
Subject:
Mark-8 for sale
FYI, from comp.os.cpm:
>Mark-8 Computer for sale. Intel 8008 introduced July 1974.
>Serious collectors only.
>Tom Smith
>tomxs(a)hotmail.com
At 08:26 PM 8/12/97 -0700, you wrote:
>The other day I haggled over a quarter for god's sake!
Last weekend at a garage sale, a guy wanted to sell me three things (kiddie
cars) for a quarter. I gave him $.50.
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