> Anyone know anything about the Surwave Amigo? I have a non-working
> version, and am inclined to fix it, but I don't know what the system is. It
> has a Z80a cpu,and I was told by someone (who could well be wrong) that it
> runs Apple II software, but that is as much as I have found out so far.
Some newly discovered additional information. :) After taking the boards
out (one of which I assume is for the dual floppies, one for the hard
drive? one unknown and one graphics card), I found a 6502. So it seems it
is a dual processor Z80a/6502 machine.
This, at least, explains the Apple ][ compatibility, but leaves me a tad
more confused about its origins.
Adam.
The attached showed up in sci.electronics.equipment. The main reason
I'm forwarding it to the list is because the fellow advertises a complete
C-64 with what appears to be an actual Commodore EPROM programmer. He's
also got an Atari system and some other interesting goodies.
Caveat emptor! Attachment follows.
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Some weights haven't been included. You pay shipping. Write if
interested in the stuff. Its a pain trying to weigh all this stuff.
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TUBES electron, 955 acorn,9002,7G,6Z4,89,5Y3,6SJ7,6J5,9006,6AV5,AU6A
OA3,OA2 and more. Total=31, $1
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FUNCTION GEN. - Lab Volt AA777, manual, EC, paid $120, $59
.1 to 1 MHz, 4 wave forms plus pulse.
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STEPPER MOTORS - 6 stepper motors, 6 wire, $6, GC, 4.5 lb.
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WIRE - 5 wire intercom cable 120 ft. $10, new, 4 lb.
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CARD READER - Magnetic card readers. $2/ea.
$39/25 or $59/50
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TESTERS TRANSISTOR 2 - Elenco(new) & Knight, $20 w/manual
I paid about $25 for one and had to assemble it, used
it ounce or twice, ouch! Edlie Electronics still sells it.
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TIMERS - Digital (coffee), control 15a 120v $4/ea., new
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ALARMS - Master Lock, 12v auto or home $8/ea. new
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TESTING - equipment 2, old Knight magic eye stuff, capacitance and
signal tracer, G.C., $20, worth it for the eye tubes.
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POWER SUPPLIES - 9 V DC, 150 ma., $2 ea., 5 for $8, 10 for $15, new
small modular style with 2x12 mm plug, 6 oz./ea.
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DB25 CONNECTORS 40 - rt. angle board mount, 20 female, 20 male,
current price $1.60-$1.80 ea., new,
$30, 3 lb.
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30 to 50 watts? GC, $6
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CABLE - ribbon, colorful, arts & crafts to hardware, $6, 2 lb.
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CONNECTORS CENTRONICS - 10 Cinch, M-M, good quality, new $15
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24 v. - 2.5 a.
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11 v. - 20 a.
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WALL PLATE, TV-FM and rotor, lists $3/ea., new $2 all 3
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COMMODORE/EPROM, system, consists of all of the following;
late model commodore 64 (new style case), EPROM programmer
will program 2716 to 27256, 2 disk drives , all boxes, cables,
power supplies, manuals. Will toss in all the above manuals#.
All EC $120
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MegOhmmeter, Industrial Instruments Co., Model L-6B
Low Freq. Generator, HP, Model 202A
Volt-Amp-Milliammeter, Sensitive Research Instrument Corp.
Television/FM Sweep Generator, RCA, WR-69A wt. 17 lbs.
Megohm Bridge, General Radio Co., Type 544-B
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A publication of ACM Siggraph. $8
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ATARI 5200, great older game machine, boxed, with Space Invaders,
Dig Dug, Joust, Pac-Man, Mario Bros., Centipede. EC
except for joysticks, will have to solder on switch
for fire button. wt. 16 lbs. $20
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PHONE JACK/WIRING BLOCK, new, just purchased from Sun, $1
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TRANSMITTER's, 5 watts, are set for between two CB chs. 3&4
these are removed from new equipment, board measures
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CAP variable air, 50-1470 pF, about 8.5"x4.5"x4.5", biggest I've
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>Ya Rich. Ask them if they would be interested in a first once again?
>Hey Bill, with our own server up - do you feel like trying a realtime
>chat group? Or is this asking too much - I know you are busy. Maybe
>someone else could set up a host system for this. This would be *Real
>Neat*. I guess if I suggest it - I better read up on it 8-) Anyone
>else think this would be a neat idea???
I wrote Perl code for a web chat once, which ran quite well - but as it
uses forms rather than Java it is not entirly real time. Anyway, if you
want that we can probably work something out.
Ada,
If you still have the lisa manuals and stuff I will pay the shipping and cod
cost to get them. Let me and thanks John Keys
At 02:20 PM 8/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Perhaps someone would be interested in the Lisa gear?
>
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>From: epotter(a)mail.utexas.edu (EPotter)
>Newsgroups: austin.forsale
>Subject: Free TVs,etc
>Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 11:31:47 +0100
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>
>Two 25" heathkit TVs, working, with one extra chassis for parts. Large
>and heavy, wood cabinets, not fibreboard, need grill cloth. Also several
>Lisa keyboards, Lisa manuals, misc. all free, you haul it off.
>
>
If you still these items I can drive down from Houston and ick up or if you
only have the manuals I'll apy for shipping the manuals MN. Thanks John Keys
At 02:20 PM 8/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Perhaps someone would be interested in the Lisa gear?
>
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>From: epotter(a)mail.utexas.edu (EPotter)
>Newsgroups: austin.forsale
>Subject: Free TVs,etc
>Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 11:31:47 +0100
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>
>Two 25" heathkit TVs, working, with one extra chassis for parts. Large
>and heavy, wood cabinets, not fibreboard, need grill cloth. Also several
>Lisa keyboards, Lisa manuals, misc. all free, you haul it off.
>
>
>>FYI the BA23 (Ihave one) slides into a plastic pedestal case from the back.
>>or the metal box can have rack mount ears.
>
> This one also alows the whole chasis to slide in and out of the pedestal
>case...and it looks like it'd allow it to do it just as easily from the front
>as it would the rear.
Take a look through the vent holes on top. The BA23 has a metal flange
about halfway down which prevents it from coming too far out the front. You
can get it out far enough to take off the cover plate over the drive bay,
but that's about it.
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu
Dave
<figured out how to open the access door in the back, and saw some cards in
<there, but exactly how do they come out? i didnt want to just start pullin
<in case they are locked in somehow.
Two screws lets the door loose. Cards slide straight out(pull) the quad wide
cards (cpu and mem) have levers at the end, some observation should make
their operation clear. FYI cables need to be moved/removed to get at things
in a ba23. Not order and position. This is a buss based system and buss
continuity is partly based on position and adajacentcy.
Depending on age amd options installed the mix of card could vary.
Minimally there will be one cpu (top), at least one memory(4/8meg),
A DHV11 8line serial, TQK50 tape(optional), DEQNA(NI), RQDX2/3 floppy hard
disk controller. If there is a video console there could be one or two more
cards.
Allison
Hi!
Anyone know anything about the Surwave Amigo? I have a non-working
version, and am inclined to fix it, but I don't know what the system is. It
has a Z80a cpu,and I was told by someone (who could well be wrong) that it
runs Apple II software, but that is as much as I have found out so far.
Thanks heaps,
Adam.
I also have a uVAX II, and i partially dissembled mine and hosed down the
outer plastic shell since there was lots of nasty dust in there. i finally
figured out how to open the access door in the back, and saw some cards in
there, but exactly how do they come out? i didnt want to just start pulling
in case they are locked in somehow.
david
For all of those Commodore followers...
Something interesting happened today. One of my co-workers asked me to work
with her on something relating to a company called Ensoniq, a manufacturer of
sound cards and hign-end MIDI equipment. She was reading to me over the phone
about the founders and how they came from Commodore International. Hmmmm.
She then read the names: Al Charpentier and Robert Yannes. I didn't
immediately recognize Al's name, but I knew Yannes. He created the prototypes
for the VIC-20 and C64. Reading on, she confirmed my guess. Al ran the LSI
section of the Advanced Systems Design Group within Commodore. From the info
that we have, it seems that Al did mostly chip design, including the VIC-I and
VIC-II, and Bob did mostly systems design.
Well, in about a week or two, I'll be meeting these guys. Does anyone have
any special questions that are not too off-the-wall and that I can slip into
conversation?
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