24 Jun
2011
24 Jun
'11
8:34 p.m.
http://www.wix.com/hivalerie/sphere1#!
Gen X website, beware!
Pretty much all Spheres were prototypes - NONE of them worked properly
out of the box (or as a bag of parts), and they ALL had to spend time
with a thick ECO list.
They were crap, plain and simple.
Interestingly, just a couple of days ago, I was informed that the last
of my Sphere stuff has been found, and after ten plus years of hiding,
is getting back in my hands. I should have enough parts to make at
least two "complete" Spheres, plus maybe a third, and then have parts
left over. We shall see. I will likely use them as trade bait, unless
people want to part with their money.
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Will
24 Jun
24 Jun
8:41 p.m.
On 6/24/11 12:34 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Interestingly, just a couple of days ago, I was
informed that the last
of my Sphere stuff has been found, and after ten plus years of hiding,
is getting back in my hands. I should have enough parts to make at
least two "complete" Spheres, plus maybe a third, and then have parts
left over. We shall see. I will likely use them as trade bait, unless
people want to part with their money.
I have the contents of the Sphere User's group (about 100 cassettes) and
a big pile of paper from the guy in LA that ran it.
Would you be willing to dump the proms?
9:17 p.m.
In article <BANLkTim+JZLQRj_o9K5x-RTt361uwKfGcA at mail.gmail.com>,
William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> writes:
Interesting. I had learned of this machine because of its local Utah
connection. I even tracked down one of the original employees and had
been meaning to do a phone interview with him. IIRC, when I contacted
him he reported that he didn't have any original hardware anymore.
The original designer has passed away a number of years ago.
http://www.wix.com/hivalerie/sphere1#!
Gen X website, beware!
Pretty much all Spheres were prototypes - NONE of them worked properly
out of the box (or as a bag of parts), and they ALL had to spend time
with a thick ECO list.
They were crap, plain and simple. Interestingly, just a couple of days ago, I was
informed that the last
of my Sphere stuff has been found, and after ten plus years of hiding,
is getting back in my hands. I should have enough parts to make at
least two "complete" Spheres, plus maybe a third, and then have parts
left over. We shall see. I will likely use them as trade bait, unless
people want to part with their money.
I have an interested because its connected to Utah, but I haven't been
specifically looking for it. IIRC, it doesn't have any graphics out
of the box. It has a summary entry in this book:
Collectible Microcomputers
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0764316001/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag…
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9:37 p.m.
On 6/24/11 3:34 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Pretty much all Spheres were prototypes - NONE of them
worked properly
out of the box (or as a bag of parts), and they ALL had to spend time
with a thick ECO list.
They were crap, plain and simple.
Yeah, but you say that about everything! ;)
Interestingly, just a couple of days ago, I was
informed that the last
of my Sphere stuff has been found, and after ten plus years of hiding,
is getting back in my hands. I should have enough parts to make at
least two "complete" Spheres, plus maybe a third, and then have parts
left over. We shall see. I will likely use them as trade bait, unless
people want to part with their money.
Neat!!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
25 Jun
25 Jun
12:35 a.m.
New subject: Microvax 3400 in IL free for the taking
spotted: Microvax 3400 system on CraigsList in Evanston, IL. FREE to
a good home..
condition/innards unknown but apparently still available
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nch/sys/2447914128.html
anyone close that could check this out?
steve
12:57 a.m.
New subject: Microvax 3400 in IL free for the taking
On 6/24/11 7:35 PM, steve shumaker wrote:
spotted: Microvax 3400 system on CraigsList in
Evanston, IL. FREE to a
good home..
condition/innards unknown but apparently still available
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nch/sys/2447914128.html
anyone close that could check this out?
I have a friend in that area that is going to contact them shortly.
He's been looking for a small MicroVAX-III-class system for a long time.
I hope he gets it. Thanks for the heads-up!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
7:06 p.m.
On 6/24/11 3:34 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
> Pretty much all Spheres were prototypes - NONE of them worked properly
> out of the box (or as a bag of parts), and they ALL had to spend time
> with a thick ECO list.
>
> They were crap, plain and simple.
\\Perhaps youcould list the (vrey few) classic computers that you
actually approve of.
Yeah, but you say that about everything! ;)
I learnt, on about the second day of existance of this list, that saying
a particular machine [1] was 'crap' with no more explation was a waste of
time and liabl to start long-running flamewars. Saying that a machine was
crap, or poorly designed, or... _because_ it had race hazards everywhere,
or the power supply was margine, or it was liable to overheat, or the
backplane connectors were prone to developing poor contacts, or that
active-high edge-triggered interrupts are insane, or ... can create a
sensibel discussion.
And of course what one person considers 'crap' might well be an
interesting, if marginal, design to somebody else.
[1] I made the big mistake of criticising a machine that has a fanaticval
followijng. Suffice it to say that it's 6502-based, dates from the
late-ish 1970s, and has colour graphics. I sitll don't like the video
system., the I/O system, the disk controller, the marginal PSU, etc, but...
-tony
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