9 Feb
1999
9 Feb
'99
7:27 p.m.
Caveat emptor on this one...
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On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 20:06:09 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware you
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>From: Fabo <Fabo(a)suffolkonline.com>
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
>Subject: Rare IBM machines for sale
>Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 20:06:09 -0500
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>Hi Folks .
>I have dug in the wherehouse and uncovered some IBMs that we purchased
>at auctio long ago.
>Feast your eyes .
>Please go through my main site , you may even find some hardware you
>need !
>I will be updating the website in the coming days , please be patient
>and reload often
>http://www.li.net/~dbowman
>Fabo
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho,
Blue Feather Technologies -- kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech [dot] com
Web: http://www.bluefeathertech.com
"...No matter how we may wish otherwise, our science can only describe an object,
event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot possibly define any of
them..."
9 Feb
9 Feb
7:41 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Bruce Lane wrote:
Caveat emptor on this one...
I feel I should point out this "Fabo" guy has recently caused a minor
ruckus on misc.forsale.computers.workstation. Check the thread in DejaNews
and form your own opinions if you're thinking of contacting him.
ok
r.
10 Feb
10 Feb
9:36 a.m.
Hi All,
I live in North East Pennsylvania. I emailed him for his STORE address, I told
him I may want to come visit and buy something.
John Amirault
R. Stricklin (kjaeros) wrote:
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Bruce Lane wrote:
Caveat emptor on this one...
I feel I should point out this "Fabo" guy has recently caused a minor
ruckus on misc.forsale.computers.workstation. Check the thread in DejaNews
and form your own opinions if you're thinking of contacting him.
ok
r. 
9 Feb
9 Feb
8:09 p.m.
New subject: Newly acquire stuff
I *finally* got that &^%$ UMAX scanner working (needed a firmware upgrade
and nothing I read gave that info until I started digging through UMAX tech
notes) and will start getting scans of the Geniac manuals. If someone is
willing to put them on their site, let me know and I'll email the scans as
they are completed.
A friend of mine and I went over to the university to check out what they
had for sale. There was a Sun-3 sitting there, several HP Series II
Laserjets, Mac IIs, a number of mini-tower cases (full/empty?) among the
other stuff there. The only thing I picked up for who knows what reason was
a Data General One Laptop computer with the printer, (dead?) power supply,
manuals, and a suitcase that it fit in for $30. There was no response when I
plugged in the funny smelling switching power supply and it is now sitting
and waiting for time to check it out further.
Tonight was the Classic Computer Club meeting, and they raffled off an
Amstrad PPC512 portable computer. Neat looking computer but I haven't taken
the time to check to see if it works. No manuals, and only the disks that
were in the drives came with the unit. The person who raffled it off said
it worked the last time he used it.
10:19 p.m.
New subject: Newly acquire stuff
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Marvin wrote:
I *finally* got that &^%$ UMAX scanner working
(needed a firmware upgrade
and nothing I read gave that info until I started digging through UMAX tech
notes) and will start getting scans of the Geniac manuals. If someone is
willing to put them on their site, let me know and I'll email the scans as
they are completed.
I'd be happy to host them, but I prefer OCR'd scans to images or PDF. I
also have Geniac manuals (there were several variations, and I only have
three of the variations), so I can split the work with you if our versions
match.
Tonight was the Classic Computer Club meeting, and
they raffled off an
Amstrad PPC512 portable computer. Neat looking computer but I haven't taken
the time to check to see if it works. No manuals, and only the disks that
Does that mean you won? I like the PPC512, but I find it one of the
goofiest looking computers made.
OK, my turn to brag. Today was a good day. I got:
a Commodore 128D
a Heathkit 8088 trainer
a few BYTE mags
and ... an Olson!
What's an Olson, you ask. It's a BYT-8 clone. What's a BYT-8, you ask.
It's an ultracool front-panel S-100 box originally sold by the Byte Shop
in Palo Alto around 1976:
http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/byte/olson2.jpg
It's much smaller than most S-100 boxen of the day. Here's a pic that
lets you compare the size to a standard 8.5x11" binder:
http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/byte/olson3.jpg
-- Doug
10 Feb
10 Feb
6:03 a.m.
New subject: Newly acquire stuff
Doug wrote:
OK, my turn to brag. Today was a good day. I got:
a Commodore 128D
a Heathkit 8088 trainer
a few BYTE mags
and ... an Olson!
What's an Olson, you ask. It's a BYT-8 clone. What's a BYT-8, you ask.
It's an ultracool front-panel S-100 box originally sold by the Byte Shop
in Palo Alto around 1976:
IIRC, the Olson was marketed by Olson Electronics, and I used to go into
their Pittsburgh store each time I managed to get over there. Really nice
find!
11 Feb
11 Feb
11:07 a.m.
New subject: Newly acquire stuff
Marvin wrote:
Doug wrote:
> OK, my turn to brag. Today was a good day. I got:
> a Commodore 128D
> a Heathkit 8088 trainer
> a few BYTE mags
> and ... an Olson!
>
>
Not such a bad one for me either - a C64 (UK, looooow serial number), another
128D & a PET 2001 (version 2 roms, 8k (keyboard needs repair)). All these from
the Resource Shop attached to the local garbage tip. Total price, $6
(australian).
But I'm after more PETs (in Australia if anyone has 'em). I picked up a coupla
books last week - Compute!s Programming the PET/CBM (1982) & Mcgraw-Hill
PET/CBM Personal Computer Guide (1980).
I'm happy :-)
10 Feb
10 Feb
8:10 a.m.
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