1 Dec
2009
1 Dec
'09
10:29 a.m.
If you live in Vancouver you MUST check this out:
http://freegeekvancouver.org/en/computer_museum_auction
Almost 120 machines are for sale, including:
* Boxed IBM 5150 Personal Computer - The original PC from 1982, from which
all modern PCs are still derived. Comes in box with accessories and manuals.
* NeXT cube and NeXT Stations - The computers on which the World Wide Web
was created.
* Boxed Amiga 1000 - The first of a revolutionary line of computers. Comes
in box with accessories and hardware upgrades.
* Atari 1040STE - One of Atari's best and well know in the world of music.
* Apple Macintosh 128k - The original Mac from 1984.
* In addition to systems, there are other goodies like Model M keyboards for
sale
I have seen the stuff with my own eyes and this is not something to miss.
There are some real gems going up for grabs.
Sadly, no PDP stuff. :(
John
1 Dec
1 Dec
10:48 a.m.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 13:29, John Ball <ball.of.john at gmail.com> wrote:
If you live in Vancouver you MUST check this out:
http://freegeekvancouver.org/en/computer_museum_auction
Almost 120 machines are for sale, including:
I think I see a PET IEEE-488 harddisk in the pictures... and possibly
a B-series PET.
Crap, I'm on the wrong side of the country!
Joe.
--
Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem
11:01 a.m.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Joachim Thiemann <
joachim.thiemann at gmail.com> wrote:
I think I see a PET IEEE-488 harddisk in the
pictures... and possibly
a B-series PET.
Crap, I'm on the wrong side of the country!
There's four amiga 2000s (one without the cover) and 3 500s. On the top
shelf is an amiga 1000 under the monitor, but most importantly, attached to
the right side of the amiga 1000 is this:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=327
It's an XT compatible sidecar upgrade for the 1000. These are very rare.
(and I don't mean ebay-rare) It lacks a hard drive, but iirc, there are
three 8-bit isa slots in there. There's a guy on amiga.org who put a
hard-card and a separate video card in his. The XT can act as a file server
for the 1000.
I'd love to have that setup (and a 1040st, next cube, 5160, 5170... ), but
alas, i'm too far away.
brian
11:35 a.m.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 14:01, Brian Lanning <brianlanning at gmail.com> wrote:
There's four amiga 2000s (one without the cover)
and 3 500s. ?On the top
shelf is an amiga 1000 under the monitor, but most importantly, attached to
the right side of the amiga 1000 is this:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=327
It's an XT compatible sidecar upgrade for the 1000. ?These are very rare.
(and I don't mean ebay-rare) ?It lacks a hard drive, but iirc, there are
three 8-bit isa slots in there. ?There's a guy on amiga.org who put a
hard-card and a separate video card in his. ?The XT can act as a file server
for the 1000.
Could you have told me this BEFORE I gave mine to Dave Dunfield? :-)
(No don't worry Dave, I don't want it back! :-) Frankly I don't think
they were that rare - maybe they are now.
I kept the Xebec controller and the 20Meg drive I was using for the
exact purpose you described (my workbench floppy had just enough
drivers on it to load janus.library and then pass control to a
startup-sequence on the HD). Still trying to extract the data off
that...
Joe.
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Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem
11:45 a.m.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Joachim Thiemann <joachim.thiemann at gmail.com
wrote:
Could you have told me this BEFORE I gave mine to Dave
Dunfield? :-)
(No don't worry Dave, I don't want it back! :-) Frankly I don't think
they were that rare - maybe they are now.
I kept the Xebec controller and the 20Meg drive I was using for the
exact purpose you described (my workbench floppy had just enough
drivers on it to load janus.library and then pass control to a
startup-sequence on the HD). Still trying to extract the data off
that...
I never see them on ebay. I think over the last few years, I've seen one.
Of course, that doesn't necessarily make them rare. But if you know of
another place I can get one, please let me know. :-) There's a lot of
other amiga items i'd love to have, but end up going for stupid prices on
ebay, or dont show up at all.
brian
1:13 p.m.
Wow, a complete PC-XT that uses the keyboard and video monitor of the
Amiga! :oD
12:35 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Alexandre Souza - Listas <
pu1bzz.listas at gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=327
Wow, a complete PC-XT that uses the keyboard and video monitor of the
Amiga! :oD
More cool pictures:
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=2440
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=2333
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=2201
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=2227
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=2290
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=2202
brian
11:21 a.m.
On 01/12/2009 18:48, Joachim Thiemann wrote:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 13:29, John Ball
<ball.of.john at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://freegeekvancouver.org/en/computer_museum_auction
I think I see a PET IEEE-488 harddisk in the
pictures... and possibly
a B-series PET.
Crap, I'm on the wrong side of the country!
I'm on the wrong side of a large body of water :-(
There are four or more NeXT monitors in the first pic, and looks like
NeXT slabs on the shelves.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
12:38 p.m.
I think I see
a PET IEEE-488 harddisk in the pictures... and possibly
a B-series PET.
Crap, I'm on the wrong side of the country!
I'm on the wrong side of a large body of water :-( 
11:38 a.m.
On 12/1/09, Joachim Thiemann <joachim.thiemann at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 13:29, John Ball
<ball.of.john at gmail.com> wrote:
I do, too - over on the left, on top of the PET floppy unit (2040?
4040?), between the two PETs.
We've just been discussing D9060 and D9090 drives over on the
cbm-hackers list this week. Several members of that list (including
myself) have one or more units. They are interesting, but finding
them with the disks in a working state is somewhat uncommon.
Fortunately, you can sub in an ST225 or ST251 without any changes to
the firmware or boards if you don't happen to have a working TM602S or
TM603S handy.
If you live in Vancouver you MUST check this out:
http://freegeekvancouver.org/en/computer_museum_auction
I think I see a PET IEEE-488 harddisk in the pictures... ... and possibly a B-series PET.
Over on the right? Could be. Those came out after my PET experience,
but the case looks right to me.
Crap, I'm on the wrong side of the country!
As am I. We have some old stuff at FreeGeek Columbus, but nothing
approaching that quantity or variety. At the moment, we have one SGI
O2, a couple of NeXT slabs, an Apple IIe, and quite a bit of
miscellaneous flotsam. Like FreeGeek Vancouver, we lack the room to
preserve such things indefinitely, but also would like to do something
more than shred them at the recycling table.
-ethan
12:06 p.m.
Anybody going to this??? I would like to place a bid through someone
on a few items if its possible, contact me off-list: curt at atarimuseum.com
Thanks
Curt
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 12/1/09, Joachim Thiemann <joachim.thiemann at
gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 13:29, John Ball
<ball.of.john at gmail.com> wrote:
I do, too - over on the left, on top of the PET floppy unit (2040?
4040?), between the two PETs.
We've just been discussing D9060 and D9090 drives over on the
cbm-hackers list this week. Several members of that list (including
myself) have one or more units. They are interesting, but finding
them with the disks in a working state is somewhat uncommon.
Fortunately, you can sub in an ST225 or ST251 without any changes to
the firmware or boards if you don't happen to have a working TM602S or
TM603S handy.
If you live in Vancouver you MUST check this
out:
http://freegeekvancouver.org/en/computer_museum_auction
I think I see a PET IEEE-488 harddisk in the pictures...
... and possibly a B-series PET.
Over on the right? Could be. Those came out after my PET experience,
but the case looks right to me.
Crap, I'm on the wrong side of the country!
As am I. We have some old stuff at FreeGeek Columbus, but nothing
approaching that quantity or variety. At the moment, we have one SGI
O2, a couple of NeXT slabs, an Apple IIe, and quite a bit of
miscellaneous flotsam. Like FreeGeek Vancouver, we lack the room to
preserve such things indefinitely, but also would like to do something
more than shred them at the recycling table.
-ethan
11:49 a.m.
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, John Ball wrote:
If you live in Vancouver you MUST check this out:
http://freegeekvancouver.org/en/computer_museum_auction
Yikes! If I didn't already have plans I'd be seriously tempted to drive the
6 hours or so to get up there. At the same time I do *NOT* need more junk
in my garage. I don't even use the stuff I have, and should be getting rid
of it!
Zane
2 Dec
2 Dec
10:45 a.m.
John Ball wrote:
If you live in Vancouver you MUST check this out:
http://freegeekvancouver.org/en/computer_museum_auction
Almost 120 machines are for sale, including:
...snip...
I have seen the stuff with my own eyes and this is not something to miss.
There are some real gems going up for grabs.
Sadly, no PDP stuff. :(
Timing is kind of short, but if someone is coming up for this and is
interested, I have one or two S100 systems I'd like (or need) to let go. (A
couple bucks might be nice, but I know travel expenses would eat into what
anyone could justify paying for them).
(There is some other stuff I need to divest myself of but I don't know if there
is time to sort it all out.)
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