19 May
2001
19 May
'01
6:19 p.m.
I grew up using Commodore equipement at home.
Finding Commodore stuff is always fun for me.
Friend of mine called and said to go over at this guy's place to empty out
all his Commodore stuff for $10.
Nothing exotic or really rare here, but I filled my car with:
1 Amiga 2000HD (not looked inside yet for possible goodies like accel
boards...)
1 Amiga 500
1 Amiga 1084S monitor
1 Amiga Ext Floppy
1 Mackintosh (Apple clone maker IIRC) branded composite monitor
3 C64s computers
2 1541 drives
1 1541 II drives
Approx 1000+ floppies of Commodore software
Some original C64 software inbox like Sub Logic Flight Sim for C64...SSIs
Computer Baseball...
2 Fast Load + some other assorted C64 carts
1 Mps801 printer
2 Amiga mice
1 Super Graphix Printer Interface for C64
1 C64 Koala Pad (?)
Several books like : Mapping the Commodore 64, The Best of TorPet (good
reading!) and other books for 6502 programming and similar.
1 Ton of cables and power supplies for all of this
2 Ribbons for the Mps801
1 Sun Mouse (what was that doing in there?)
1 386 clone (he was cleaning out...)
Claude
http://computer_collector.tripod.com
20 May
20 May
4:26 a.m.
At 11:19 PM 5/19/01 -0400, Claude.W wrote:
I grew up using Commodore equipement at home.
1 Sun Mouse (what was that doing in there?)
I seem to remember that a Sun mouse was quite similar
to an Amiga mouse. In particular, the ones that required
a reflective mouse pad were quite fashionable.
- John
4:40 p.m.
John Foust skrev:
At 11:19 PM 5/19/01 -0400, Claude.W wrote:
>I grew up using Commodore equipement at home.
>1 Sun Mouse (what was that doing in there?)
I seem to remember that a Sun mouse was quite similar
to an Amiga mouse. In particular, the ones that required
a reflective mouse pad were quite fashionable.
I can't find anything in common between a Sun and an Amiga mouse, at least not
the types 3 and 4. They're very different superficially, and the Suns use a
serial protocol whereas the Amigas use quadrature. The only connection I can
find would be that optical mice were en vogue on the Amiga and standard on the
SUNs, long before M$ and the PC world "discovered" it.
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21 May
21 May
7:15 a.m.
--- John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com> wrote:
At 11:19 PM 5/19/01 -0400, Claude.W wrote:
You could get Mouse Systems optical mice for more than just Sun equipment,
but they were ubiquitous for years with the Type 4 keyboard (Type 5 mice
are rounder, have purple accessorizing and, IIRC, use a different mouse pad).
If your optical mouse has a DIN-8, it's probably for a Sun. If it has an
Amiga connector, it's probably for an Amiga. I think I saw a Mouse Systems
optical mouse this weekend at Dayton with a DB-25 on it, for PeeCee.
-ethan
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I grew up using Commodore equipement at home.
1 Sun Mouse (what was that doing in there?)
I seem to remember that a Sun mouse was quite similar
to an Amiga mouse. In particular, the ones that required
a reflective mouse pad were quite fashionable.
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