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by manney＠nwohio.com

> Look at how fast a CP/M system can be up and running Wordstar, compared to > a Win95 system running Word97. ...but try wordstar on a Win95 system! (Actually, I still sell a few 386 systems as dedicated, cheap systems for word processing.)

28 years, 3 months

Free IBM system 36

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<>640K (or lately, 32Mb). And I suspect that anytime Allison has even <>4K at hand, she kicks some butt. As someone who has (and still does) develope hardware and software, Thank You! <"power user" t The original term is apple/mac in origin and was someone that knew the guts and made their system situp and bark(sometimes literally!). <Oh, and of late it seems to be more like 64Mb is the minimum to do anythi <with a PC suffering the Winbloat. I totally agree that these can't handl Even my biggest vax only 16meg, and my PC a measly 8mb and I run all that and winders<ok 3.1 I cheat ;)>. Code bloat has become fantastic. <stuff that any decently configured computer with less than 64k could do <Look at how fast a CP/M system can be up and running Wordstar, compared t <a Win95 system running Word97. As someone that has some 10mhz z80 systems, that is an understatement. I spent most of the 80s blowing the doors of PCs with PDP-11/23s and z80s. It wasn't till the 386/33s that that became a real contest in my eyes. At that point I started using old vaxen to make the race interesting. Allison

28 years, 3 months

Free IBM system 36

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

>Received: from host (server(a)lists.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.13]) > by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with SMTP > id PAA19170; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 15:49:56 -0800 >Received: from mx4.u.washington.edu (mx4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.5]) > by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP > id PAA13830 for <classiccmp(a)lists.u.washington.edu>; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 15:49:34 -0800 >Received: from star1.intellistar.net (star1.intellistar.net [206.105.64.2]) > by mx4.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with ESMTP > id PAA11635 for <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 15:49:32 -0800 >Received: from lizard ([206.105.68.14]) by star1.intellistar.net > (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO203a ID# 0-41809U2500L250S0) > with SMTP id AAA12 for <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>; > Fri, 9 Jan 1998 18:49:26 -0500 >Message-Id: <3.0.1.16.19980109194518.4e57ed1c(a)intellistar.net> >Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 19:45:18 >Reply-To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu >Sender: CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu >Precedence: bulk >From: Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> >To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> >Subject: Free IBM system 36 >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >X-Sender: rigdonj(a)intellistar.net >X-Priority: 1 (Highest) >X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN > >Found this in a news-group. > > Joe > >My company needs the space and wants to give away an IBM System/36, >immediately! We need it out of here ASAP. Runs great! You haul. Call Rick >at 505-982-5573 or email: rogick(a)roadrunner.com > >The equipment is as follows: > IBM System/36 Model 5360 > IBM 4234 Dot Band Printer > 6 IBM 3197 Color Workstations > Motorola Codex 2205 Modem > Dual Tape Backup by Fathom Technologies > About 6 5250 Emulation Cards (Short Length) >Everything works great! OK, here's my question: would I, as a "power user" have any non- romantic/nostalgic/etc. use for such a machine? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years, 3 months

Free System/36

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

actually, what i meant by the power-user comment was a person who is not afraid to use a black-and-white command prompt if it can help him/her do something. So, would a System/36 be good for me? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years, 3 months

IBM Rescue Needed -- New Mexico

by kyrrin2＠wizards.net

Heads up to any CLASSICCMP members in the Santa Fe area or nearby: Found this on Usenet from a fellow looking to clear out a System/36. If you can help, please contact the original author directly. Best of luck! -=-=- <snip> -=-=- Path: Supernews70!Supernews60!supernews.com!news.he.net!news.dra.com!nntp.mainstreet.net!feeder.swcp.com!fugu!SantaFe!not-for-mail From: rogick(a)roadrunner.com (Rick Byrne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Free IBM System/36 and Peripherals Date: 9 Jan 1998 16:17:45 GMT Organization: NMML Lines: 14 Message-ID: <695ij9$rpg$8(a)santaclara.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial182.roadrunner.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 Xref: Supernews70 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:92489 My company needs the space and wants to give away an IBM System/36, immediately! We need it out of here ASAP. Runs great! You haul. Equipment is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Call Rick at 505-982-5573 or email: rogick(a)roadrunner.com The equipment is as follows: IBM System/36 Model 5360 IBM 4234 Dot Band Printer 6 IBM 3197 Color Workstations Motorola Codex 2205 Modem Dual Tape Backup by Fathom Technologies About 6 5250 Emulation Cards (Short Length) Everything works great! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, SysOp, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fido 1:343/272) kyrrin2 {at} wiz<ards> d[o]t n=e=t "...No matter how hard we may wish otherwise, our science can only describe an object, event, or living creature, in our own human terms. It cannot possibly define any of them!..."

28 years, 3 months

[Fwd: Fwd: Very Important, read, react, forward]

by photze＠batelco.com.bh

Well, it's not going to affect all of us. I don't see how the government can even claim to control the Internet. (Watch how I so cleverly tangle classics into this. ;-) ) The Internet is like space: Something which is relatively (accesibly) new. With Space, an agreement was made saying how it belonged to all nations. (That's my understading) Now, ever since the first TCP was made on a PDP-11/?? (sorry, memory's a bit bad) The 'Net has been rapidly growing. It's truely international. Here, we've got examples. People from US-Europe-Asia-Austrilia are collecting classics. Now, is it legal for the (US) government to censor a message say going from Tony-Riccardo (In Italy) I mean, it might not even go through a US server. The Internet should be out of any government's controls. We should just have an open standard. Governments should be able to VOTE, on an equal basis of that with companies, etc. And then there are those "encryption standards" last summer.... wiped out any chance of brain activity in DC, outside of businesses.... Tim D. Hotze -----Original Message----- From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram(a)cnct.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 6:35 AM Subject: Re: [Fwd: Fwd: Very Important, read, react, forward] >Joe wrote: >> >> At 10:28 PM 1/8/98 -0600, you wrote: >> > >> >Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...two words...'topic' is one. 'off' is the other. >> > >> >=-) >> > >> >Anthony Clifton - Wirehead >> >> One more word ---- HOAX! Since when did the FCC start regulating the >> telephone industry? Phone rates are set by the individual state public >> service commisions not by the FCC. > >Sorry to say, it _does_ affect us (though yes, it's off-topic, but most >of us communicate through Internet links). The FedGov has a couple of >taxes on local phone bills for many years. And unless you've forgotten >the CDA, they want control over the Net, with special tools to decode >any messages someone wants private. Classic computers will not work >with those standards, of course. Yes, even if you aren't libertarian. >(I know damned well that there are one or two socialists on this list), >we can be affected -- we can be forbidden to communicate. And there >are at _least_ two attempts in progress to "reword" the CDA so that it >takes away just as much freedom but doesn't hit the federal judicial >hot buttons. > >Seems outrageous? The First Amendment covers everything. Presently. >transmitting Nobel's (the guy who funded the Prize) formula for >explosives is being watched by our "masters". Some of us collect >computers that may have been in government hands before the general >policy of "rip out the hard disk and hit it with the chainsaw" came >into effect. Other hobbies have been crippled by the government -- >remember guns (my next love after computers as computers are my next >love after science fiction)? Oh, it's platonic. >-- >Ward Griffiths >Dylan: How many years must some people exist, > before they're allowed to be free? >WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed", > they'll never be free.

28 years, 3 months

[Fwd: Fwd: Very Important, read, react, forward]

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

At 10:28 PM 1/8/98 -0600, you wrote: > >Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...two words...'topic' is one. 'off' is the other. > >=-) > >Anthony Clifton - Wirehead One more word ---- HOAX! Since when did the FCC start regulating the telephone industry? Phone rates are set by the individual state public service commisions not by the FCC. Joe > >On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, will emerson wrote: > >> >> >

28 years, 3 months

Free IBM system 36

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

Found this in a news-group. Joe My company needs the space and wants to give away an IBM System/36, immediately! We need it out of here ASAP. Runs great! You haul. Call Rick at 505-982-5573 or email: rogick(a)roadrunner.com The equipment is as follows: IBM System/36 Model 5360 IBM 4234 Dot Band Printer 6 IBM 3197 Color Workstations Motorola Codex 2205 Modem Dual Tape Backup by Fathom Technologies About 6 5250 Emulation Cards (Short Length) Everything works great!

28 years, 3 months

The IBM PS/2 model 70 again! -E61

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 98-01-08 22:43:53 EST, you write: << I have a couple of junk Model 30's if anyone... My vote goes to the Model 25 as the most horrid computer PC of all time. Unexpandable, impossible to work on. Ick! >> actually, i think its kind of neat in a strange way. all in one form factor, like a compact mac. in fact, the IBM Eduquests are built the same way. the only bad part is expandability and if the monitor or power supply dies, you're finished. david

28 years, 3 months

Clock (off topic)

by engine＠chac.org

Between Christmas and New Year's I was cleaning out my mother's house and found a Texas Instruments TI-71, complete with its docs and warranty card. This is a small, line-powered digital clock. Still works fine. What interests me here is that I recall hearing an unsupported contention, years ago, that this was the _first_ commodity digital clock that used seven-segment displays instead of flippers. Can anyone confirm or deny? Tony, you probably know this one. TIA, __________________________________________ Kip Crosby engine(a)chac.org http://www.chac.org/index.html Computer History Association of California

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