11 May
1998
11 May
'98
1:46 p.m.
Gary S Katz wrote:
I am not too far away in Kearny NJ, I started with a Mod I (long lost,
although it is possibly still owned), can offer a supportive home to
them (I'll possibly have to track down instructions on attaching them
to TV's, spare TV equipment is on hand -- I _do_ know and love the
system (my second was lost to burglary) -- it was still being sold
when I started working for RS 5.4 years before I left due to IBM
compatibility of the new gear. I can give the darlings a good home,
although I dread that such an adoption will give my (dear, loving)
wife an excuse to balance things with getting another source of cat
hair (we have a deal). I will cheerfully pick them up.
Alas, I have accepted a job offer that will take my family and me across
the country into a home smaller than one we are currently renting. The
Wife says that the Classic Computer Collection is NOT travelling with us.
To be fair, if it DID move, I would have to store the equipment in a
garage or something equally undesirable.
The following equipment is in need of rescue:
3 TRS80 Model I CPU's
two have keypads, one does not
all are LEVEL II, 16K
two have R/S lowercase mods, one has a non-R/S lc mod
2 Expansion Interface's
both have 32K of RAM
neither have functioning RS232 boards
one has a buffered cable and SD controller
one has non-buffered cable and R/S DD controller
a single R/S RS232 board with a blown line driver chip might
still be with us
4 R/S Shugart or Tandon Diskette Drives
Two are Drive 0 designates with terminating resistors
Two are Drive 1,2,3? without terminating resistors
1 VOXBOX - screws missing but functional at last test
1 TRS80 Voice Synthesizer - barely functioning at last test
1 TRS80 Line Printer 7
Box of Cassette-based tapes
Unfortunately, three TRS80 Model I Monitors got tossed accidentally in a
prior move, so I don't have any of these.
The computers are currently located in central New Jersey. I am hoping
that there is a local collector who would be interested in providing these
guys with a loving home. I am currently located in Baltimore, so I can't
ship them easily. Please reply via EMAIL if you are interested in
retrieving these pieces of computing history.
-Gary Katz
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_