27 Feb
1998
27 Feb
'98
11:25 a.m.
To everyone: Some judicious snipping of quoted email replies would make it
MUCH easier to read, and really is common net-etiquette these days.
As far as want-list;
Me, I'm open to trades - I have a spare Exidy Sorcerer and assorted
oddities.
I'd like some of the early single boards - such as sym, etc.
Andrew
27 Feb
27 Feb
11:41 a.m.
On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Andrew Davie wrote:
To everyone: Some judicious snipping of quoted email
replies would make it
MUCH easier to read, and really is common net-etiquette these days.
Agreed. Outside this thread, too...
As far as my wanted list goes:
I haven't got much to trade right now (the supply comes and goes---I just
moved and bought an SGI so right now it's mostly gone...) but am looking
and will pay cash for:
Parts for Apollo DN series workstations (especially OS tapes!)
4x8 30 pin SIMMs for use in NeXT or Mac SE/30
Bare SE/30 or logic board only to repair grumpy machine
Composite video cable for TI-99/4A
Software for Apple ][plus .. I played with these a bit in elementary
school, so some of the old educational software could be worth a good kick
in the pants now that I've gotten around to verifying that my plus does in
fact work (even if some of the titles won't work on the plus)..
Rocky's Boots
Fraction Fever
Agent USA (not so educational)
more I can't think of (DOS, AppleWorks, or LogoWriter would be handy)
Shoot, I wish I hadn't dismantled my Coco all those years ago and sold all
the cartridges at a garage sale... but that was before I started
collecting. What a bonehead. (:
ok
r.
7:02 a.m.
On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Andrew Davie wrote:
Snip!
Agreed. Outside this thread, too...
Exactly.
As far as my wanted list goes:
4x8 30 pin SIMMs for use in NeXT or Mac SE/30
4mb x 9bit at any speed at or below specificed speed will work
without a whit or protest on those machines. I have done that
before on other Mac. You might need to try either 9 chips or 3 chips
simm versions because those 3 chips are more common.
Bare SE/30 or logic board only to repair grumpy
machine
What's the problem with yours? Usually may not or power supply
playing doodles with that voltage juices to logic board. This is
very repairable. But please DO tell us what you saw.
Shoot, I wish I hadn't dismantled my Coco all
those years ago and sold all
the cartridges at a garage sale... but that was before I started
collecting. What a bonehead. (:
But you will get the Coco back anyway that
you're now collecting!
ok
r.
Jason D.
email: jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca
Pero, Jason D.
12:25 p.m.
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998 jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca wrote:
It eats disk drives. Basically, I get a known good FDHD and within a week
it's toast. Everything else about the machine is fine, great. Just the
disk drives...
ok
r.
4mb x 9bit at any speed at or below specificed speed
will work
without a whit or protest on those machines. I have done that
I know it. I want the 8 chip variety, though, in the interest of being
'correct'. I could even enable parity checking on the NeXT, but at a 30%
or so performance hit...
Bare SE/30 or
logic board only to repair grumpy machine
What's the problem with yours?
Usually may not or power supply
playing doodles with that voltage juices to logic board. This is
very repairable. But please DO tell us what you saw. 
28 Feb
28 Feb
5:33 a.m.
I'd looking for 1802 based systems - ELF II's, SuperELF's and
original CCA COSMAC trainers. This was my first computer so I feel
nostalgic towards the arch...
jmg
6:49 a.m.
J. Maynard Gelinas wrote:
I'd looking for 1802 based systems - ELF
II's, SuperELF's and
original CCA COSMAC trainers. This was my first computer so I feel
nostalgic towards the arch...
Sorry, haven't come across any at all but will write down your wishes in
case I find something locally or on the internet. Thanks again.
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7:52 a.m.
New subject: Thanks and TRS-80 Score (was Re: Wanted stuff (Was: Pretty good week))
Cool. the RCA 1802 stuff is pretty rare, so I don't expect to
find one tomorrow.
I just scored a TRS-80 model 1, 16K with level II basic. I
found it in an antique shop - the lady obviously didn't know anything
about computers and just wanted to recoup her costs. She had marked
it at $50, I offered $10, and walked away paying $25. I feel like I
payed too much, still if I had bought across the net and payed
shipping it would have been a wash or more I guess.
The thing is _dusty_ but functional. It lacks an EI, Cassette
Tape interface (also the Cassette Interface cables), numeric keypad,
and a lower case Mod (it only displays upper case). The monitor works
but the brightness control seems to be dying. Also, it tends to flash
brighter and softer intermittantly. Anyone know what causes this?
The main unit seems to work just fine... think I did OK for
$25?
J. Maynard Gelinas
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 14:49:09 -0600
From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake(a)bbtel.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Wanted stuff (Was: Pretty good week)
J. Maynard Gelinas wrote:
I'd looking for 1802 based systems -
ELF II's, SuperELF's and
original CCA COSMAC trainers. This was my first computer so I feel
nostalgic towards the arch...
Sorry, haven't come across any at all but will write down your wishes in
case I find something locally or on the internet. Thanks again.
8:35 a.m.
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2 Mar
3:10 a.m.
New subject: Thanks and TRS-80 Score (was Re: Wanted stuff (Was: Pretty good week))
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 22:35:35 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Thanks and TRS-80 Score (was Re: Wanted stuff (Was: Pretty good week))
The first trap is that this monitor has a live (hot) chassis, or at least
the 115V models do. The video input is opto-isolated so that the TRS-80
itself can be grounded/floating. This means that you need to be more
careful than usual when working inside this unit - mains on all the
exposed metalwork is a good way to get killed! In fact, I'd say that you
shouldn't attempt to repair this unit unless (a) you have an isolation
transformer and (b) you know why you should use one.
Thanks Tony. I didn't know this, and don't consider myself
competent enough to open up the box and do more than clean the pots.
I've done some simple work (replacing flybacks, logic boards, etc) on
VT100's previously - if I do decide to open this thing up, rather than
using another monitor, I'll be extra careful and make certain to let
it sit and dicharge it's capacitors before opening.
J. Maynard Gelinas
8:25 a.m.
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27 Feb
27 Feb
1:07 p.m.
;-) Clearing the snow from my glasses, I saw Andrew Davie typed:
To everyone: Some judicious snipping of quoted email
replies would make it
MUCH easier to read, and really is common net-etiquette these days.
I was about to mention that as well... Guess I'm always just a *bit* too
slow... ;-)
As far as wants to [figuratively] drool over for me:
Anything run by a 6809... would love to have a SWTPC or Smoke Signal
Broadcasting SS-50 bus-based machine... a multi-CPU box would be... I don't
have words for that feeling!!! ;-)
A NeXT cube or early Sun would be nice,
The standard requisite rare stuff (Transputer, etc.)
A late model Atari (TT030/Falcon/Hades) for cheap ('cause they're not)
And... to have my decked-out Tandy Pocket Computer 2 again... should've
never traded it. :-( So geht's...
Prost,
"Merch"
--
Roger Merchberger | If at first you don't succeed,
Owner, MerchWare | nuclear warhead disarmament should
zmerch(a)northernway.net | *not* be your first career choice.
1:55 p.m.
Hmmm, I like this, a wish list thread.
Here is what I'm currently looking for, with the exception of the
documentation and the PDP-8 the stuff isn't hard to find, but affordable
prices are.
Any PDP-11 Documentation
PDP-11/44 UNIBUS boards:
M8743 MS11-PB 1-Mbyte ECC RAM (1 - 4 boards)
M7521 DELUA-AA UNIBUS to ethernet adaptor
RL02 packs, especially with RT-11 already on them :^)
A working MicroPDP-11 or two in BA23 cabs (a /73 would be nice)
A PDP-8 (this I'd like to find local, figure the odds)
A _CHEAP_ accelerator for my Amiga 3000/25
PDP-11 Documentation
Zane
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2:04 p.m.
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Hmmm, I like this, a wish list thread.
Here is what I'm currently looking for, with the exception of the
documentation and the PDP-8 the stuff isn't hard to find, but affordable
prices are.
[...]
A PDP-8 (this I'd like to find local, figure the
odds)
Somewhere I have a PDP-8 clone I microcoded on simulated bit-slice AMD
2901s :-) I'll trade a copy for any of the following:
* A Gavilan
* An Epson HX-20, HX-40, or PX-8
* Any 8086 GRiD Compass or Tempest model
* A Terak (with bit-mapped display)
And I want my HP65 back. Anybody know where I left it?
-- Doug
2:05 p.m.
[What would I like to get?]
Easy! A PDP-10. KS10, KL10, whatever. Just a PDP-10 of some sort.
And an ITS pack to load.
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2:53 p.m.
Well, with all these wanted lists, I can't be left out... Here's what I need:
Apollo stuff, specifically manuals and a set of Domain/OS 10.4.1 tapes
3C505 ethernet card for my Apollo(I'll trade my DomainRing network card for
it! ;-)
AS/400 or S/3x stuff(bigger stuff only if in PDX area)
Series/1 attachment cards and manuals(4956-K00, and not the assembly
programming reference, I already have it, manuals for any S/1 OS, and of
course software either on 8" floppy or tape reels for 4968 drive)
Apple II cards, especially an EPROM programmer and mouse interface(or does
it just use a serial card? a matching mouse would be nice too)
And I don't have much I want to get rid of, but I have two 16-bit ISA
ethernet(BNC/AUI) cards, a Mac II video card(16 colors, 256 if you upgrade
the RAM chips), two MCA ethernet(BNC/AUI, I think one of the cards might be
broken) cards for IBM PS/2 computers, and a DCA 3270 NuBus card for the Mac
II series, and of course my Domain Ring (Apollo's version of Token Ring, I
think 12Mb/s) card.
-JR http://members.tripod.com/~jrollins/index.html - Computers
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/1681/ - Star Trek
28 Feb
28 Feb
7:02 a.m.
Doug Yowza wrote:
And I want my HP65 back. Anybody know where I left it?
Probably next to my first TRS-80 Model 100, the one with the Multiplan
ROM. Last seen somewhere in Penn Station Newark. (I've got three
others, but the Multiplan chip is hard to find). I never owned an HP-65,
but they haunted my dreams as a freshman at Georgia Tech back in '73. I
got drool all over the counter at the Engineer's Bookstore.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
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