I have been offered an IBM/ROLM phone mail system. I'm curious if
it's something standard that's been put into use as a phone mail
system, or if it's some weird proprietary thing. It's about 4 feet
high, and about 4' x 3' or so. It runs on 220VAC at what appears to
be many amps. Inside (the parts I could see - it's still in use at
the moment) were several cards in slots, a physically large hard
drive, a monster power supply, a tape drive, and some other bits.
What I could see was:
Priam P/N 330352 hard drive
ROLM 40311 Phone Mail System
Voice Compression I/O Card
8 Channel Voice Card
AP 4MB RAM 41508
System Processor II 41002
Unless it's to go to the junkyard, I need to let them know by Friday
(tomorrow) sometime. The hard drive is making "bad bearing" noises,
and the voice mail has started to "stutter". They found a newer box
to replace it that's about the size of a bread box for less than a
refurb hard drive would cost. I'm not sure what I'd do with it, but
if it's got anything useful in it, I'd try to salvage it for someone
else, if they can arrange shipping.
Bill Richman
I'm sorting through and clearing out a few things but first I have a
Tandy DMP 430 printer. It's one of the 132 col printers. It also has
one of those noise-reducing printer cabinets. It's pretty big and
heavy so free to anyone in the Houston, TX area that would like to
pick it up. I guess I could ship it if someone really, really wanted it
but it would be costly I think and a pain. I picked it up with a
bunch of other stuff and have never tried it out so it's as is.
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David Williams - Computer Packrat
dlw(a)trailingedge.com
http://www.trailingedge.com
I have another tech legend to be dicussed:
It is generally believed that the Apple Lisa is what spurred Bill Gates to
create Windows. But recently I have read something that says it was *not*
the Lisa that inspired Bill Gates, but that it was VisiCorp's VisiOn
software (remember that, yeah, me neither!). So my question is: Which one
was it? Was it Lisa or VisiOn?
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> From: John R. Keys Jr. <jrkeys(a)concentric.net>
> > Look for Woz editions and rom 3.
You can take the Woz cover off of any IIgs and put it on any other IIgs.
This is important for collectors who desire absolutely factory original
equipment.
Add to the list any non-Apple brand IIgs memory card. The Apple card can
only hold a maximum of one megabyte, but other brands can hold more, some
up to a maximum of eight megabytes. Some IIgs cards use weird memory
(i.e., SIP) so you may be able to use the chips in another same card that
is not filled.
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> From: Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com>
> I can't think of any logical reason why the //c ould be more popular than
> the //c+ anywhere. The //c+ is so much better than the //c on so many
> levels.
>
> Any idea what the deal is?
The IIc+ had no international version (USA power spec only) and was not
available outside the continental USA--not even Alaska, Hawaii, or Canada
(or so says another post I just read elsewhere on the Internet).
Paul R. Santa-Maria
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
paulrsm(a)ameritech.net
How much was the Atari 800XE? If shipping isn't too mush for the SE/30, then sure. Got any estimate on shipping costs?
Thanks,
Owen
-----Original Message-----
From: Marion Bates <Marion.Bates(a)dartmouth.edu>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Saturday, July 08, 2000 8:53 PM
Subject: Never mind!
Hey! Found a TI99 power supply in a new thrift store tonight. But thank you anyway! I also saw an Atari 800XE and an assortment of old PC clones, plus some old videogame stuff if you're interested.
Do you still want the SE/30?
Thanks again,
-- MB
Some one here maintains a collection of boot disks don't they?
Can you help him out?
------- Forwarded message follows -------
From: Boing48(a)cs.com
Hi,
I have a Kaypro II but no docs or software. I would like to get a
boot disk, can you help?
Thanks,
Allan
------- End of forwarded message -------
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David Williams - Computer Packrat
dlw(a)trailingedge.com
http://www.trailingedge.com
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> From: Charles P. Hobbs (SoCalTip) <transit(a)lerctr.org>
>
> Around 1985 or so, a couple of manufacturers developed "sprite boards"
> for the Apple II series (except the IIc, for obvious reasons)
Picked one from eBay in November for $5. No docs or software, but I think
I have the Byte magazine where Ciarcia presented plans and software for the
original. I have not even plugged it in yet.
Paul R. Santa-Maria
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
paulrsm(a)ameritech.net
I have a SparcStation 4/330 (sun4 architecture) running OpenBSD 2.6 on a
540mb drive. I have a few questions relating to fleshing out the
original install:
Where do I find descriptions for each package/port?
How do I get PKG_ADD to resolve it's own dependencies? (goes to above
question). I would like to install KDE or Enlightenment or some better
Gui than X11R6.....
I have Solaris 2.4 (sparc) installed on another drive (triple boot
system - netbsd, openbsd, solaris) and so have the libraries the
Compat_sunos manpage says it requires except for LIB5. Do I need a
later version of solaris in order to get the libraries I need to run
solaris dynamicaly linked applications? The mans are not specific
enough for me to get there from here. The goal is to run Netscape for
Solaris 2.4 under OpenBSD 2.6. I've cp'd the libs to the correct dirs
according to the manpage but netscape fails to load with a trap almost
instantly. I have updated my solaris 2.4 for the bind issues relating
to netscape and other apps and those new libs are in place on my obsd
drive in the right place but to no avail.
In particular I would like to know why following the directions in the
manpage results in my solaris 2.4 partition being no longer bootable.
Solaris dies with several errors regarding Lib.so suchandsuch not being
readable and dies. I only mounted the solaris drive for read to copy
the files and each time I do that the solaris partition won't boot
anymore. My guess is permissions being changed because the solaris
partition is mountable under OpenBSD even after it will no longer boot,
all files are there in the right place and OBSD reports the solaris
partition as clean. What is happening here?
Some equipment info:
sd0 is at 0,0 540mb Openbsd
Sd1 is at 1,0 540mb NetBsd 1.4.2 (gotta use 1.4.1`s miniroot to install
on Sun4!
Sd2 is at 3,0 1004mb Solaris 2.4 (can't boot from cd so I use TomsRTBT
on my klone and dd an image then install from the image'd hard
disk..... Hey, it works.
Video is a CG6 daughtercard on my sparc's mainboard. X runs fine.
I do have a cdrom drive that is not bootable but otherwise runs fine for
all three operating systems.
Thanks for your support. Please reply in e-mail as well as to the
group.
--
Jeffrey S. Worley
President
Complete Computer Services Inc.
30 Greenwood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28803
828-277-5959
