29 Jul
2007
29 Jul
'07
7:10 p.m.
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Hi
I was wondering if you could help. I don't really want to throw this stuff
away, but I need to get rid of it. My next step is to dispose of it on our
"free dump day". I don't want any money, just my room back. If you know of
anyone that would be willing to help me find a home for these I would
greatly appreciate it. I am in the Frankfort, KY area and am willing to
travel up to 2 hours. I only have 1 truck, but I can make several trips. I
have a room full of computers, monitors, dot matrix printers, keyboards,
mice, etc. It is more than a pickup load. I have no clue about what they
are or if they are worth anything to anybody. If it's junk, please let me
know that also.
Here is a partial list. I haven't made it to the other end of the room or
the attic yet. I haven't tested any of these.
IBM Personal Computer XT - I have about 18 of these - some are 5150 and some
are 5160.
Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 4 - I have 4 of these
1 each of the following:
Cathode Ray Oscillograph
IBM PS-1
IBM PS/2
Heathkit H9
Dell 333 s/L
AT&T 6386 SX/EL20 W6S
Aptiva 510
Zenith Data System Z-Server EX 433DE
Gateway P5-120
Macintosh Centris 660 AV
Zenith Data Systems Z-433D+
AXCEL by Packard Bell
Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III
A couple of No Names
I have about 30 more that I will need time to get info from.
Printers:
IBM ProPrinter
Panasonic Quiet KX-P2135 24 Pin Color
IBM Quietwriter III 5202
Panasonic KX-P1624 24 Pin MultiMode - I have 2 of these
Epson LQ-1000
IBM 2381-001
IBM Quickwriter
I have more printers, but haven't gotten to them yet. Maybe 10 or so.
I do have a strange looking monitor. It says CIT-101e.
I also have a lot of monitors, keyboards, and mice. There should be some
complete systems in there somewhere, but I don't know what goes together. I
do know that some of the monitors are monochrome. It just piled up faster
than I could keep up with it.
I am just putting in numbers and info that is on the machines. I don't know
what is inside.
Thanks,
Karen
7:39 a.m.
On 7/30/07, Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> wrote:
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 21:10 -0500, Jay West wrote:
I have some of each of CIT-101 and CIT-101e. Of the ones I have, the
CIT-101s closely resemble VT100s, the CIT-101es loosely resembled
soft-edged Wyse 50s.
Functionally, they are much the same. We used to do multiple-session
(using the printer port) on the 101e and not the 101, so perhaps there
are some minor feature differences. Perhaps the 101e lacks the "setup
clock" of the 101, but as I said, overall, they are much the same.
Good solid terminals. We used to have a lot of them where I worked 20
years ago, since they were substantially less expensive than DEC
terminals, new.
-ethan
I do have a strange looking monitor. It says
CIT-101e.
Wonder if it's similar to my CIT-101, and what the differences are? 
8:38 a.m.
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 21:10 -0500, Jay West wrote:
I do have a strange looking monitor. It says CIT-101e.
We used a pile of these back around 1984. VT-100-type terminals,
very rugged and much cheaper than the DEC VT-100s. Good workhorses.
I think the 101e has an amber screen phosphor, but it's been many
years since I last used one.
Cheers,
Chuck
9:11 a.m.
On 7/30/07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 21:10 -0500, Jay West wrote:
You may very well have used an amber 101e, but, like the VT220 that
came out later, I think it was a customer-specifiable option. My
recollection of our 101s and 101es from 1984 is that we had mostly
amber 101s, and mostly green 101es. I still have a pile of them, but
I haven't used one in years (the most recent dumb terminals I've had
out were my Planar ELT320s... very nice, and tiny).
I agree, though; the C Itoh terminals were rugged and much cheaper (in
the day) than VT-100s. They also all had the "Advanced Video Option"
(AVO), unlike a genuine VT-100 (vs a VT-101 or VT-102), thus 132
column mode wasn't half-height. I think we did have a few real
VT-100s, but, obviously, we didn't use them for wide-screen work.
-ethan
I do have a strange looking monitor. It says
CIT-101e.
We used a pile of these back around 1984. VT-100-type terminals,
very rugged and much cheaper than the DEC VT-100s. Good workhorses.
I think the 101e has an amber screen phosphor, but it's been many
years since I last used one.
9:48 a.m.
On 30 Jul 2007 at 11:11, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I agree, though; the C Itoh terminals were rugged and
much cheaper (in
the day) than VT-100s. They also all had the "Advanced Video Option"
(AVO), unlike a genuine VT-100 (vs a VT-101 or VT-102), thus 132
column mode wasn't half-height. I think we did have a few real
VT-100s, but, obviously, we didn't use them for wide-screen work.
There were better terminals than the VT-100s and VT-220s. My
recollection of a particularly good one is a 220-type model made by
TAB Equipment. It had a keyboard to die for.
Sometime around then, Wyse started offering their VT-100 compatibles.
I didn't like them much, but they were certainly inexpensive compared
to the competition.
I didn't put much time in on the CIT-101s--I brought my IBM 5150 to
the office with a homebrew 8" Shugart hard disk box and downloaded my
files from the VAX 11/750, edited them, then uploaded them for
compiling. I used a surplus 19" green-screen monitor in a plywood
box that I built that was the subject of much ridicule--but I had a
great big display and great (clicky) keyboard--and I could work while
the VAX was offline.
Cheers,
Chuck
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