20 Jun
2000
20 Jun
'00
11:10 a.m.
I don't really want to start another "ebay good/ebay bad" argument, but
did everybody see that an ADM-3A just sold on ebay for $355 US!?!?
I have two in good working and cosmetic condition that I got from a
bank some years ago, including the little panels and screws that cover
the option dip switches. I alos have docs. How many more are out there,
just on this list?
20 Jun
20 Jun
11:27 a.m.
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
I don't really want to start another "ebay
good/ebay bad" argument, but
did everybody see that an ADM-3A just sold on ebay for $355 US!?!?
I have two in good working and cosmetic condition that I got from a
bank some years ago, including the little panels and screws that cover
the option dip switches. I alos have docs. How many more are out there,
just on this list?
If you're wondering if they're rare, the answer is no, they are not.
They're about as rare as Altairs, which by the way used to show up on
eBay at least once a week.
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12:43 p.m.
If you're wondering if they're rare, the
answer is no, they are not.
They're about as rare as Altairs, which by the way used to show up on
eBay at least once a week.
I would think that they are significantly more common than Altairs.
You wouldn't normally find 20 Altairs in a bank.
11:37 a.m.
New subject: ADM's on list.
Bill Sudbrink asks:
How many {ADM-3A's} are out there, just on this list?
One here. ADM-5, I think. Similiar looking. No eBay.
(This was found, hanging above the floor, face
down only by its cord, pushed off behind a
table next to a networking wireharness, One
small island of HW in a building being gutted
just last year. The ADM had been forgotten but
was still running happily. A workhorse.)
21 Jun
21 Jun
7:49 a.m.
New subject: ADM's on list.
I just realized what everyone is talking about. I picked one up a while back
from UofM Property Depot for, drumroll, $1. It looked
like the old library
terminals my town used to use, when I was little I thought they
looked
super-high-tech. I've got it running the console on my home linux box, which
is mounted in a big COMTAL VISION/1 mainframe cage. At least I can pretend
I'm using a mainframe...
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Allain" <John.Allain(a)donnelley.infousa.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 4:37 PM
Subject: ADM's on list.
Bill Sudbrink
asks:
How many {ADM-3A's} are out there, just on this list?
One here. ADM-5, I think. Similiar looking. No eBay.
(This was found, hanging above the floor, face
down only by its cord, pushed off behind a
table next to a networking wireharness, One
small island of HW in a building being gutted
just last year. The ADM had been forgotten but
was still running happily. A workhorse.)
9:50 a.m.
New subject: ADM's on list.
Grey, looks like this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=358409684
But without the case.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Sudbrink" <bill(a)chipware.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 1:30 PM
Subject: RE: ADM's on list.
I just
realized what everyone is talking about. I picked one up a
while back from UofM Property Depot for, drumroll, $1.
Blue or brown?
8:30 a.m.
New subject: ADM's on list.
At 12:49 PM 6/21/00 -0400, Jason wrote:
... my home linux box, which
is mounted in a big COMTAL VISION/1 mainframe cage. At least I can pretend
I'm using a mainframe...
Oh man! What happened to the COMTAL ? I'd love to get my hands on a
VISION/1 or the earlier model which was 4' tall and had table top for the
big BARCO monitor that sat on top of it. I programmed the thing at the
Image Processing Institute at USC (source of about 99% of the images used
in Image processing research BTW)
--Chuck
9:52 a.m.
New subject: ADM's on list.
Last I heard, 3M bought out COMTAL, then dropped them in the mid eighties.
If you peruse old Byte and Computer Graphics magazines you'll see ads for
the 3M Comtal machines. I've just got the box, it came from Wayne State
University's physics department, probably in use for some kind of wierd
partical accelerator results imaging, or something. Man, I miss having a
minivan...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck McManis" <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: ADM's on list.
At 12:49 PM 6/21/00 -0400, Jason wrote:
>... my home linux box, which
>is mounted in a big COMTAL VISION/1 mainframe cage. At least I can
pretend
I'm using a
mainframe...
Oh man! What happened to the COMTAL ? I'd love to get my hands on a
VISION/1 or the earlier model which was 4' tall and had table top for the
big BARCO monitor that sat on top of it. I programmed the thing at the
Image Processing Institute at USC (source of about 99% of the images used
in Image processing research BTW)
--Chuck
20 Jun
20 Jun
12:30 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 04:10:48PM -0400, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
I don't really want to start another "ebay
good/ebay bad" argument, but
did everybody see that an ADM-3A just sold on ebay for $355 US!?!?
I have two in good working and cosmetic condition that I got from a
bank some years ago, including the little panels and screws that cover
the option dip switches. I alos have docs. How many more are out there,
just on this list?
I've got an ADM-5. Obtained under "its been sitting in the junk room
(actually an abandoned old dormitory first floor) for about 10 years
now, my head is turned the other way and I dont know where you got it"
pretenses from the college I attended. Thing's indestructible.
I actually saw a couple of them still in use at one of WorldCom's POP/colo
facilities in Dallas when I had to go down there for an ISP I worked for
a couple of years ago..
Sadly, I lost one of my VT320s to a power outage/surge the other night;
it wont send/receive anymore. I'm down to one 320 and one 420; anybody
got a green-screen vt320 they'll let go cheaply? VAXES MUST HAVE GREEN
MONO CONSOLES.... and my pristine VT102 w/manual isnt going to be plugged
in until I get GOOD FILTERED PROTECTED power. 8-)
Bill
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4:19 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Sudbrink" <bill(a)chipware.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 5:40 AM
Subject: Did you see...
I don't really want to start another "ebay
good/ebay bad" argument,
but
did everybody see that an ADM-3A just sold on ebay for
$355 US!?!?
P.T. Barnum was right.
I have two in good working and cosmetic condition that
I got from a
bank some years ago, including the little panels and screws that cover
the option dip switches. I alos have docs. How many more are out
there,
just on this list?
I have a couple. One's dead, the other still works IIRC. 240v versions
of course.
Cheers
Geoff Roberts
Computer Systems Manager
Saint Mark's College
Port Pirie,
South Australia
geoffrob(a)stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au
netcafe(a)tell.net.au
ICQ: 1970476
21 Jun
21 Jun
10:43 a.m.
At 04:10 PM 6/20/00 -0400, Bill wrote:
I don't really want to start another "ebay
good/ebay bad" argument, but
did everybody see that an ADM-3A just sold on ebay for $355 US!?!?
I have two in good working and cosmetic condition that I got from a
bank some years ago, including the little panels and screws that cover
the option dip switches. I alos have docs. How many more are out there,
just on this list?
I have one. I found about 20 more in a surplus place last year and
offered them here on the CC list for the cost of shipping and a little
pocket change but no one was interested.
Joe
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