24 Jun
2013
24 Jun
'13
5:07 a.m.
I've been starting to trawlthrough my various big piles of miscellaneous / less
interesting stuff that I haven't got round to doing anything with (or am ever likely
to...) and have an Osborne 1a that did work ~6 years ago before it was consigned to a dark
corner of the attic after an earlier clear out. From memory the monitor took ~20 seconds
to warm up and work and there's also a missing key cap so it's far from a
pristine, museum quality example. From my rather narrow perspective it isn't the most
interesting or exciting of machines either. But it is free...
Is anyone interested in it? If so, I'd prefer someone to come and pick it up rather
than go through the effort of packing / shipping etc as I'm basically lazy and
don't want to do much more than drag it downstairs and throw a disk in it to see if it
still works.
Collection may be possible from Bath / Swansea via one of my relatives if you can wait a
month or two.
Julian
24 Jun
24 Jun
5:36 a.m.
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On 24/06/13 13:07, Julian Smith wrote:
I've been starting to trawlthrough my various big
piles of
miscellaneous / less interesting stuff that I haven't got round to
doing anything with (or am ever likely to...) and have an Osborne
1a that did work ~6 years ago before it was consigned to a dark
corner of the attic after an earlier clear out. From memory the
monitor took ~20 seconds to warm up and work and there's also a
missing key cap so it's far from a pristine, museum quality
example. From my rather narrow perspective it isn't the most
interesting or exciting of machines either. But it is free...
Is anyone interested in it? If so, I'd prefer someone to come and
pick it up rather than go through the effort of packing / shipping
etc as I'm basically lazy and don't want to do much more than drag
it downstairs and throw a disk in it to see if it still works.
Collection may be possible from Bath / Swansea via one of my
relatives if you can wait a month or two.
Julian
While I might be near Manchester in about 3 weeks, I actually reside
in Bath and if at all possible, it'd be lovely if I could pick it up
here, especially considering that Manchester is massive and I'd be
using public transport.
If no one else takes it until it can get to Bath then by all means let
me know when it'll be here.
- --
Mateusz K.
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7 Jul
7 Jul
10:49 p.m.
Hi Mateusz,
Sorry it's taken so long to reply, but the Osborne has gone.
Julian
On 24/06/2013 13:36, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
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On 24/06/13 13:07, Julian Smith wrote:
I've been starting to trawlthrough my various
big piles of
miscellaneous / less interesting stuff that I haven't got round to
doing anything with (or am ever likely to...) and have an Osborne
1a that did work ~6 years ago before it was consigned to a dark
corner of the attic after an earlier clear out. From memory the
monitor took ~20 seconds to warm up and work and there's also a
missing key cap so it's far from a pristine, museum quality
example. From my rather narrow perspective it isn't the most
interesting or exciting of machines either. But it is free...
Is anyone interested in it? If so, I'd prefer someone to come and
pick it up rather than go through the effort of packing / shipping
etc as I'm basically lazy and don't want to do much more than drag
it downstairs and throw a disk in it to see if it still works.
Collection may be possible from Bath / Swansea via one of my
relatives if you can wait a month or two.
Julian
While I might be near Manchester in about 3 weeks, I actually reside
in Bath and if at all possible, it'd be lovely if I could pick it up
here, especially considering that Manchester is massive and I'd be
using public transport.
If no one else takes it until it can get to Bath then by all means let
me know when it'll be here.
- --
Mateusz K.
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24 Jun
24 Jun
5:48 a.m.
Hi Julian,
I'd be very interested in this. I'm in Newport in South Wales, however I have
family in Manchester, and my Dad works not far from Swansea so I'm sure we could work
out a way of getting it to me.
My website is http://www.micromuseum.co.uk
Regards,
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf
Of Julian Smith
Sent: 24 June 2013 13:07
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Free Stuff - Manchester UK
I've been starting to trawlthrough my various big piles of miscellaneous / less
interesting stuff that I haven't got round to doing anything with (or am ever likely
to...) and have an Osborne 1a that did work ~6 years ago before it was consigned to a dark
corner of the attic after an earlier clear out. From memory the monitor took ~20 seconds
to warm up and work and there's also a missing key cap so it's far from a
pristine, museum quality example. From my rather narrow perspective it isn't the most
interesting or exciting of machines either. But it is free...
Is anyone interested in it? If so, I'd prefer someone to come and pick it up rather
than go through the effort of packing / shipping etc as I'm basically lazy and
don't want to do much more than drag it downstairs and throw a disk in it to see if it
still works.
Collection may be possible from Bath / Swansea via one of my relatives if you can wait a
month or two.
Julian
7 Jul
7 Jul
10:49 p.m.
Hi Chris,
Sorry it's taken so long to reply, but the Osborne has gone.
Julian
On 24/06/2013 13:48, Chris Long wrote:
Hi Julian,
I'd be very interested in this. I'm in Newport in South Wales, however I have
family in Manchester, and my Dad works not far from Swansea so I'm sure we could work
out a way of getting it to me.
My website is http://www.micromuseum.co.uk
Regards,
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On
Behalf Of Julian Smith
Sent: 24 June 2013 13:07
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Free Stuff - Manchester UK
I've been starting to trawlthrough my various big piles of miscellaneous / less
interesting stuff that I haven't got round to doing anything with (or am ever likely
to...) and have an Osborne 1a that did work ~6 years ago before it was consigned to a dark
corner of the attic after an earlier clear out. From memory the monitor took ~20 seconds
to warm up and work and there's also a missing key cap so it's far from a
pristine, museum quality example. From my rather narrow perspective it isn't the most
interesting or exciting of machines either. But it is free...
Is anyone interested in it? If so, I'd prefer someone to come and pick it up rather
than go through the effort of packing / shipping etc as I'm basically lazy and
don't want to do much more than drag it downstairs and throw a disk in it to see if it
still works.
Collection may be possible from Bath / Swansea via one of my relatives if you can wait a
month or two.
Julian
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24 Jun
24 Jun
10:19 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Julian Smith
Sent: 24 June 2013 13:07
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Free Stuff - Manchester UK
I've been starting to trawlthrough my various big piles of miscellaneous / less
interesting stuff that I haven't got round to doing anything with (or am ever
likely to...) and have an Osborne 1a that did work ~6 years ago before it was
consigned to a dark corner of the attic after an earlier clear out. From
memory the monitor took ~20 seconds to warm up and work and there's also
a missing key cap so it's far from a pristine, museum quality example. From
my rather narrow perspective it isn't the most interesting or exciting of
machines either. But it is free...
Is anyone interested in it? If so, I'd prefer someone to come and pick it up
rather than go through the effort of packing / shipping etc as I'm basically lazy
and don't want to do much more than drag it downstairs and throw a disk in it
to see if it still works.
Collection may be possible from Bath / Swansea via one of my relatives if you
can wait a month or two.
Julian
Micros are not generally something I am interested in and it sounds like there is already
interest in your Osborne anyway. However, I am wondering what else you may have in your
"less interesting" pile. My own interests are mainly anything from DEC or
Teletype. I am also interested in the TRS-80 and the Commodore Pet, and don't yet have
anything of those.
I live in Stockport so could easily collect.
Regards
Rob
28 Jun
28 Jun
2:39 p.m.
On 24/06/2013 18:19, Robert Jarratt wrote:
Micros are not generally something I am interested in
and it sounds
like there is already interest in your Osborne anyway. However, I am
wondering what else you may have in your "less interesting" pile. My
own interests are mainly anything from DEC or Teletype. I am also
interested in the TRS-80 and the Commodore Pet, and don't yet have
anything of those. I live in Stockport so could easily collect.
Regards Rob
I'm pleasantry surprised there was any interest at all and I'll
be
responding shortly about that. My primary interests are pretty much
anything Acorn, QBUS DEC or Sun.
I'm hoping that part of the fun will be finding out what's actually in
the 'less interesting* pile'... But the reality is the majority of it
hasn't been touched for 10+ years and it won't be any time soon. So it's
going.
If anyone does actually want any of it and it's easy for me to post
(e.g. no monitors...) or you can come round, drop me an email.
I've been tied up with work & family over the last few days, so I've not
had a chance to do anything with this but from memory qualifying stuff
(or 'junk' as I'm regularly reminded) is ?10+ misc 5 1/4" PC floppy
drives, ?5+ 'ST-506' / ESDI style PC hard drives of various capacities
(probably working), ?10+ <2Gb SCSI drives (some in Sun enclosures or
SPUDs), ?2 Tandy WP2, an unknown ?6502 SBC with FDC, a tatty Sun Blade
100, a Mac SE FDHD, low spec SGI Indy motherboard & XZ graphics set, a
17" grey SGI monitor, tatty MS-DOS hand-held, a 'rugged / mil spec' one
piece ?386 portable with ?15 line monochrome LCD display in a roughly
phone directory sized package, ?10+ misc SBUS cards, a NETRA T105, a
shoebox or two stuffed with 30 & 72 pin RAM (some parity), ?2 VGA
multi-scan monitors (?Acorn), a BBC B issue 7 motherboard or two &
?keyboards and a box or two of misc ISA/PCI cards.
And very unfairly a low spec Microvax 3100 & BA356 and SUN IPC.
Julian.
*I should probably qualify this as stuff I've simply accumulated and
won't miss. And to be honest really is mostly junk.
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chris＠micromuseum.co.uk -
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