Zane: I'd be interested in your IMSAI 8080, particularly if it had any S100 "extras" in it. But I am in Chicago. Would if be able to convince you ship it somehow ?$? Everyone: I just found this mailing list and "subscribed" yesterday. I am stunned by all of the activity on it. I have been thinking about firing up my old Altair 8800 (early model). I talked my Dad into getting it for me when I was 13 years old and my brother and I learned a lot with it. So does anyone have any tips on firing up this old monster ? It it rather precious to me and I don't want to blow it up. I guess I should just take out all of the cards and check out the power supply first. I have heard that old capacitors can dry up and fail catastrophically -- but I think that this applies to the 1950's capacitors, not the 1970's ones. I still have the original "Altair Basic" on a paper tape with a manual made on a mimeograph-type machine by the "Microsoft Corporation" of Redmond Washington. Anyone out there have some other interesting 8080 software ? Rob Kapteyn kapteynr(a)cboe.com -----Original Message----- From: Zane H. Healy [SMTP:healyzh@aracnet.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 12:54 AM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Update: Computer Rescue needed in Portland, OR I figured I'd update people on the status of the systems I'm getting rid of. Thanks to a local collector I was able to get everything but the actual junk out of the unit I was trying to get rid of. I even managed to get rid of the junk a little latter, and the unit itself. All this without loosing any classic computers, even common ones. So now the crunch is off, but I'm still looking to find local takers for the following stuff. As I still need to get a bunch of stuff out of the remaining two units (for one thing I'd like to eventually get down to one unit). A note on the items with the '$' by them. As I'd said before I'm looking for some money for or some Sun or DEC stuff that I can use (fairly modern in other words). These are items that I've spent real money on, and/or rather like so if I can't recover what I've spent on them, I'll be keeping them. On some items this means I don't want to much, on others, quite a bit. Zane RULE1: These systems are for *local pickup* only. I quite simply do not have time to ship stuff. RULE1A: If you're going to be paying for something I can mark items as being for a certain person and will hold onto them for a reasonable amount of time until they can pick them up if they're going to be in this area. RULE2: Systems sold as is. Various Laser 128 $ Kaypro II Mattel Aquarius (Unknown) $ Epson PX-8 (think that's the right name) Apple Apple ][ plus Apple ][e (x2) Apple ][e enhanced 3 broken keys Apple ][c (x2) Apple ][gs (x2 1 is a Woz) $ Lisa 2/5 Apple Macintosh's Macintosh 512k, third party upgrade to Plus Macintosh SE Macintosh SE/HDFD Macintosh II Macintosh LC Atari $ Atari TT030 Commodore Bussiness Machines Commodore 64c $ Amiga 2000 (x3 only 1 keyboard, 2 Magni Genlocks, 1084 monitor, misc. other stuff) $ Amiga 3000 (1 fully updated, 1 spare. The updated one includes a Catweasel, Picasso IV, a total of 18MB RAM, and latest rev chips. I will keep this system before I part it out so don't bother asking.) digital $ PDP-11/03 $ PDT-11/150 (Unknown Condition, this is not a Q-Bus or Unibus system) $ DEC Professional 380 (has VAX console board) DECmate III (3 or 4 of them, Need Software, but that's easily available on the net) DEC Rainbow (Unknown) DECstation 5000/133 (no drives, 32MB RAM, works) IBM PC clones Kapro PC IMSAI $ IMSAI 8080 (Rack Mount style, but have top/sides for desktop style, do not have the front for desktop style) Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer 2 Texas Instruments Silent 700 Data Terminal (two different models, only sure where one is at the moment) -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |