Wanted stuff (Was: Pretty good week)

On 1998-02-27 classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu said to lisard(a)zetnet.co.uk :> ah, if we're going to get on to the "what do i wish for?" list... :Well, I don't recomend killing me to get your hands on my little :collection... And I rarely sell machines. never dream of it (unless of course, you were to flip and unload your entire collection into the nearest municipal dump. *then*, you'd be targeted... but that isn't going to happen ;> ;> ) :> any system based on the 32xxx (a ceres would be nice, but we doubt :> they're available...) :More practically, there are still a number of Whitechapel MG1's :about. Repairing one is not hard - the main problem is the NiCd :battery used for starting it. A Technical manual does exist... hmm. did the acorn 32016 workstation ever emerge, or did the arch effectively replace that concept? :> a linn rekursiv (wouldn't you? ;> ) :Ooooh... Now that's a machine I don't have, and would like! very rare though. linn only ever used them in-house, and god knows if they are still in use. :What about a Zilog 8000 ? It was/is (there's at least one still :operational) a Z8000-based unix box. Mine has an SMD disk didn't know about it. it'd be nice to find one, though. the processor is more important to us than the box it come in. (except that we would really love an olivetti, just because they're so ugly they wrap around into cuteness ;> ) oh, add a sirius one to the list; we forgot it. :> a perq :Does the fact that you've listed 'perq' about 4 times mean that you :want one from each series? no, it means we want one about 4 times as much as we want anything else. :> an original cp/m system or three (hm systems; the minstrel always :> appealed) :What do you mean by 'original'? If you mean a machine designed to :run CP/M, then there must still be some RML 380Z's (very solid UK :CP/M machines used in schools) about. Ditto for DEC rainbows, :Amstrads (although I don't like those myself), BBC Z80 second :processors, Epson QX10's (IMHO one of the nicest CP/M machines ever :built), etc. designed as a cp/m box is about the closest, but what we really meant was the other definition of original - the one that's a couple of steps either side of weird. :Just out of curiousity, why aren't you looking for the following :machines? :DEC PDP8, PDP11, Vax, any other PDP's? we must have deleted the line we were going to put in that said "any pdp that isn't 8 or 11". not an 8, because we want to write a simulator for that first; not an 11, because - well, it just strikes us that everyone's got an 11... :AMT DAP (Distributed Array Processor) how could we program it effectively? we wouldn't refuse one if it came along, but it isn't something for which we'd actively go looking. :Anything transputer-based what was/is there? did the ATW ever happen? :The Xerox D-machines (somewhat PERQ-like in many ways) rarity, didn't think these ever escaped from xerox. obviously if we were offered a dolphin or (mmmmm) a dorado we'd jump at it, but why break your heart because you can't get something that it's impossible to get? :Torch XXX, quadX, etc on the "refuse but not actively chase" list. :Tiger. Now there's a strange machine.. A Z80 + 64K RAM, a 6809 + 8K :RAM, RS232, parallel, cassette ports, 1200/75 baud modem, 7220 :graphics chip + 96K RAM, etc, etc, etc. It was going to be sold as :a home computer... didn't know of its existence - more information please...? -- Communa (together) we remember... we'll see you falling you know soft spoken changes nothing to sing within her... Net-Tamer V 1.08X - Test Drive