Vacation Finds... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Mar 1998

I had a working CMB 8032, and one day a couple years ago, saw an ad in
the paper "Wanted: CBM 8032".  A couple in their 70's placed it.  The
wife is a writer, and not a computer user, and only knew how to use her
CBM 8032 which was 15 years old and failing.  I brought my 8032 (which I
had set up in my office, after it fell from a high shelf and put a dent
in the hood of my car) to them, swapped it out, swapped roms (mine had
some sort of add-on board) and tore-down, cleaned, and re-assemble the
keyboard for them. and off they went.  I think they did have all the
manuals and stuff for the computer, disk drives, and printers. 

alas, I don't have any PET computers anymore.

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  -----Original Message-----
 From:	Ethan Dicks [SMTP:erd@infinet.com]
 Sent:	Thursday, March 05, 1998 3:28 PM
 To:	Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
 Subject:	Re: Vacation Finds...

 Have been on vacation since Friday and still have a couple days to
 go...  From the thrift store outlook in the area things are  improving
  again (I guess people are starting their
pre-spring cleaning)

 What I passed up on...
  PET 8032, 4040 dual drive.  
 Agggggh!  I'd *love* to replace my long-lost 8032.  It was one of the
 item 
 burgled from my house a while back, along with an Amiga 500 and a rare
 A500
 to 8-bit ISA adapter from Canada called "The Wedge".  I _really_ wish
 I
 had that... it was built for a WX-1 MFM controller (or a DTC 5160 RLL 
 controller), but would work perfectly for an 8-bit Ethernet card.

 Anyway, rambling aside, where are you on vacation and is the PET still
 there?

 -ethan

 ObBIO: 31, Male, collect 1802/6502/68000/PDP-8/PDP-11/VAX/SPARC.
 Started
 with the PET and Elf in 1977.  Have spare Apple ][, C-64, Amiga and
 SunSPARC
 parts/systems for trade.  My rarest find is probably my tiny
 collection of
 4004 CPUs and support chips.