4 Feb
2010
4 Feb
'10
10:28 a.m.
Hi Dan
Marvin and I are about the only ones on this group that I
now of that have these.
I also have a couple Poly88s that I actually use every
now and then. They are handy for debuging S-100 boards,
having the cover off ( needed anyway ) and access
to the side of the board.
I'd be curious what disk you have? I've written a program
for a PC to look like a 8813 with the FTP program ( not
to be confused with todays FTP ). I use it to save
images of disk on my system.
I've also been recovering a number of disk that are on loan
from Marvin ( got to get these back to him ). These
were
archieve disk fro Polymorphic. They mostly contain source
text for their manuals but also include a few other interesting
things as well.
It has been difficult as the disk are mostly double density
and the only hard sectored double density controller I have
is for 8 inch disk. I've modified that controller and written
enought code to extract sector images from the 5.25 disk.
Dwight
From: ddsnyder at zoominternet.net
To: cctech at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Poly8813 on ebay
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 20:13:33 -0500
What a surprise, a Poly collector... I have a 8813 with the 88/DS drives
with all the sales literature I got from a local dealer.
I've had this machine since 1981. Do't really here much discussons about it
or hear much from Ralph Kenyon these days about the Poly Letter news letter
he publish once upon a time..
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "dwight elvey" <dkelvey at hotmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 8:17 PM
Subject: Poly8813 on ebay
Hi
I thought I'd mention that there is a Poly 8813 ( actually a 8812 )
on ebay. One of the pictures shows me with a working machine
but the machine on ebay is not my machine ( although it might
be thought as being mine ). It is one of the two machine that mine
was one of that is mentioned on one of the web pages and serial
numbers.
The working state of the one on the web is unknown to me.
I would be willing to help, anyone that buys the machine, to
bring it to life. I can provide a boot disk, disk images and even help
diagnose problems.
I think his asking price is a little high but he seems to be open
to offers as well.
Dwight
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