On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Paul E Coad wrote:
I picked up some good stuff today. Here is the haul:
One nearly mint copy of "More BASIC Computer Games" by David Ahl.
I have this one too.
One "The Best of Creative Computing V.3" by
Ahl and Green.
One boxed copy of Adventure for HP 150 and HP 110. (yes, THAT adventure).
One boxed Commodore Plus/4.
One Sun type 4 keyboard and mouse (not yet classic, but good none the less).
Total: $11.00
That's pretty good.
Here's my catch:
Epson HX-20 "Notebook Computer" - this was an auction web purchase ($47)
and is supposed to be the first "notebook". This is an awesome little
gem. It has a built-in thermal printer and micro-cassette port for data
storage. It has a 20 character by 4 line screen and a 16K expansion
module. I was fortunate enough to be near enough to the seller to go
pick it up. When I got to his place, he was about to throw out a bunch
of other stuff, so I told him to use my trunk as the garbage can. This
is what else I came away with:
MacintoshPlus with external harddrive (now I've got two).
Canon "Cat" V777 Work Processor (a standalone 68000 based, GUI-based,
word processor with a 3.5" drive, parallel port, RS232C port and built-in
modem...not quite a classic computer but it is circa 1987 and is neat-o).
Morrow Pivot Portable - haven't had a chance to play with it yet but it
is an early portable (about 12" high by 14" wide by 7" deep) with an LCD
screen, built-in modem, 2 5.25" disk drives, parallel/serial ports and
an expansion bus connector. Don't know what processor it has or how
much RAM, but I was told it was an 8088 based system. Its actually a
"personal digital assistant" with a phone dialer, calendar, calculator
(all available from a front button panel) and I think it boots into
DOS, although I haven't played with it long enough to know. Very Neat.
Also, thanks to Jeff Hellige I was re-united with my boyhood computer
(well, not THEE one but it will do) an Aquarius. Thanks Jeff! Its such
a cool little machine. Now I just need to find all the different
components I had for it, like the expander module, 4K memory carthridge,
Utopia and some other game, the paddles and the thermal printer.
I also got a couple TI/994a's for spare parts/trade and a CoCo2 (which is
a variant from the one I have) off of auction web.
I also scored the original IBM Personal Computer Operations Guide in mint
condition from a thrift shop.
Sam
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