Just ran across this on Craigslist. I have nothing to do with it. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/sys/3243934965.html As low as $20 but items like the spectrum analyzer and other specialized items are of course are higher. Items belonged to my Dad. Part of the estate. Some have been tested. Some you may be able to test. You can buy everything as a lot or pieces. Call me to make sure that your items are availalbe. Call John 408 741-1549 Vintage Hewlett-Packard Computers and Test Equipment 1 HP 98255A Ram Card Circuit Board 6 2 HP 09826-88617A cpu Circuit Board 1 3 HP 9256A/ 09826-66524 Circuit Board 22 Rev B, D 4 HP GPIO 98622A Pin Connector Board 6 12 Select code 5 HP 98625A Pin Connector Board/Disc Interface 1 14 Select code 6 HP-IB 98624A Pin Connector Board/Disc Interface 1 8 Select code 7 HP 98270F/ 09826-66555 Power Fail Option Circuit Board 1 8 HP 1420-0303 Nickel-Cadmium Battery 1 Rechargable 9 DAVEN TS-629D/U Audio Level test panel 2 10 HP 103AR Quartz Oscillator 2 13 HP 711-A Power Supply 1 14 HP 61011A Relay Multiplexer 12 15 HP 61010A Digital I/O 1 16 HP 61014A Function Generator 1 17 HP 61017A Relay Actuator 20 18 HP 61016A Digitalizing Oscilloscope 4 50 MHz 19 HP 61015A Counter 3 20 HP 61013A Digital Multimeter 4 21 HP 9000 220 Computer 8 22 HP 59301A ASCII to Parallel Converter 2 23 HP 59501B Isolated DAC/Power Supply Programmer 1 24 HP 6291A DC Power Supply 2 26 HP 5316A Universal counter 1 27 HP 3465A Digital Multimeter 1 28 HP 3438A Digital Multimeter 1 29 HP 47310A A/D Converter 3 30 HP 86602A RF Section 3 1 missing knobs 31 HP 11707A Test Plug in 1 32 HP 6281A DC Power Supply 1 33 HP 6290A DC Power Supply 1 34 HP 59306A Relay Actuator 6 35 HP 59309A HP-IB Digital Clock 1 36 HP 59313A A/D Converter 1 37 HP 59400A HP-IB IRS 332-TTY Interface 1 38 HALCYON 801A Mini Fox 1 Blue carrying case 39 HP 9895A Flexible disc memory 3 40 COMPUPRO Computer 1 41 HP 9920 Series 200 Computer 4 42 Industrial Computer Source Computer 1 43 HP 59824 Scanning Interface 1 44 Scientific Atlanta 1750 Wide Range Phase/Amplitude Receiving System 1 45 HP 8559A Spectrum Analyzer 1 and 853A Spectrum Analyzer Disply 46 HP 8565A Spectrum Analyzer 1 47 HP 85007A Display Generator 1 48 HP 9888A Bus Expander 1 49 HP 1980B Oscilloscope measurement System 1 50 HP 8660C Sythesized Signal Generator 4 51 HP 8660A Sythesized Signal Generator 2 52 HP 86622B Modulation Station 2 53 HP 86623B Modulation Station 1 54 HP 86603A RF Section 4 55 HP 85434A Output Control 1 56 HP 86601A RF Section 2 57 HP 9000 236 Zipper Floppy Drives 1 Keyboard Attached 58 HP 9836 Computer with Floppy Drives 3 Keyboard Attached 59 HP 9122 Computer with Floppy Drives 1 60 HP 9121 Computer with Floppy Drives 1 61 CP Clare and Co. Mercury Wetted Contact Relay Bank 1 62 HP 7200i Internal SC ReWrittable Drive 1 63 Circuit Board Rack/ Chip Tester 1 Blue Circuit Boards 64 HP 59824 Scanning Interface 1 66 HP 6439B DC Power Supply 1 67 HP 3964 A Instrumentation Recorder 2 68 HP Display 5 69 HP 522B Electronic Counter 1 70 Model 411 Oscillosope 1 Missing 1 CRT 71 HP 6267 DC Power Supply 1 72 HP 8710A Tracking Filter 1 73 HP 1350 Graphic Translator 1

Too bad it looks kind of beat up. Looks like at least the top is dented down and the door doesn't stay shut. I might offer $50 if it ends and no one else gets it, considering it might be a useless piece of hardware. On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 5:19 PM, mc68010 <mc68010 at gmail.com> wrote: -- Sent from My Hippopotamus

On May 12, 2013, at 9:10 PM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote: Interesting. If one could get it working, I wonder how well it would work for mining bitcoins?

I'd rather think the latter concept would be the insult. -----Original Message----- From: William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> Sender: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.orgDate: Sun, 12 May 2013 21:10:06 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts<cctalk at classiccmp.org> Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: nCUBE 2E on ebay 50 dollars would be an insult. The gold scrap value of nCube boards is abnormally high. -- Will

In article <51914117.4030903 at bitsavers.org>, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes: When I am dealing with a scrapper, I try to find out how much they expect to get from a machine in scrap value (after subtracting out disposal costs; not everything in there is a money maker for them) and offer enough more than that to make it worth their while. I understand their business and if I want to buy stuff from them, it has to be more profitable for them to sell it to me than to scrap. It's just the way the market works. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

On 5/14/2013 12:53 PM, Beau Walker wrote: I've given up even trying to guess what things will go for on ebay anymore. There is just no way to know now. Even if it went for $X last week it will go for a totally different price today. Something is rare as a nCUBE box there is no way of knowing. I'm a little surprised at $300+ but, I knew it would go for something more than $50. If one of the museums is after it it could go for a lot. Seems like we are in a upswing of vintage gear prices. Some stuff is going for many time what it would have last year even. I think people are feeling better about spending money again.

On 5/14/2013 3:46 PM, Richard wrote: That could be part of it but, it seems like there is more vintage gear than ever before in some categories. People aren't giving stuff away anymore but, putting it on ebay. There is probably more Apple II series stuff on ebay than ever. The rarer non-consumer stuff does seem to be getting pretty rare. Sun2/3, Apollo, and that sort hardly comes up at all anymore. I suspect it may have more to do with people hording it than there actually being less of it out there. There are some really full garages and storage spaces out there in collector land. I wonder if there won't be a glut of the good stuff hitting the market again in ten years or so when its time for it to go.

* On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 04:46:45PM -0600, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote: Yup. I've been doing this long enough to notice the trends now. About 8 to 10 years ago SGI stuff was listed locally on Craigslist with great regularity, often with very low "just come take it away" kind of prices. Octanes, O2s, Indys, occasionally Indigos and Indigo 2s (not as often) could be had for $50 to $150 depending on configuration. But I haven't seen any SGI equipment come up in a very long time now. It's just dried up. People who were getting rid of it have gotten rid of it. I notice you can still find Octanes and O2s on eBay for pretty reasonable prices, but I haven't found one on CL in ages (but, then again, I'm not really looking for that) The same, as you say, is true of DEC stuff, which is much more my focus of interest. 15 to 20 years ago (my God, has it really been that long?) it was not at all uncommon to find a rack or two of PDP-11 or VAX stuff sitting out on loading docks, often very nice stuff, just free for the taking. Lots of terminals, lots of free VT-100s and VT-220s, lots of DECwriter terminals. Now, it's all gone. Anything that was going to be scrapped has been scrapped, anything that was going to remain in service is still in service limping along on inceasingly expensive reseller spares. The only source of the stuff is collector-to-collector (or reseller-to-collector if you're made of money) Such is life! I miss doing dumpster runs to get the cool stuff I loved to find, but that's just the way it is. I'm not too happy about getting older, either, but I can't do any more about that than I can do about the supply of PDP-11s and VT-100s in the world! :) (That said, I still would love to find a VR201 monitor, hint hint!) -Seth

* On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 07:47:59PM -0400, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: Yup... and makes me regret all the stuff I gave away! :) (At least it all went to good homes, and none to the recyclers) Screen rot is repairable, at least in many cases (I do not know about the VR201 specifically). So even with screen rot, I'd still like to find one! -Seth

On 05/14/2013 08:42 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: It seems that some adhesives used to bind the implosion protection sheet over the face of the CRT decompose and/or have mold grow on them (or something along those lines) over time. Some people have had good luck repairing them. I have a few in that state, but haven't attempted a repair yet. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

On 5/14/2013 9:15 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: This pretty much shows what a pain it is to deal with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ_i_8rTIR4

On May 14, 2013, at 7:49 PM, mc68010 wrote: The Craigslist giveaways are still alive and well. The only problem is that they're all things from the last 5-10 years, as they were with the stuff we're interested in back when they were plentiful. If I wanted a Pentium 4 system, I'd have no problem finding one for free. I have a much harder time finding, say, an Apple Multisync monitor (two of which I gave away on CL a year and a half ago and deeply regret today). On the other hand, if you need to get rid of a couch, it's great. I put ours up and got over 100 replies in a day... not ONE of which had proper grammar, spelling and punctuation throughout. Still got the couch out of the house for free, to someone who would use it. - Dave

On May 14, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Jonathan Katz wrote: Man. If I didn't love Philadelphia so much, I'd say I'm clearly in the wrong city. But as much as I love vintage computers, I love being able to walk to the grocery store (and anywhere else I want to go on a daily basis) more. Though I wonder if the dumpsters around Drexel would yield any unusual fruit... - Dave

On 05/12/2013 02:19 PM, mc68010 wrote: Yes, but will it run Windows? ;) --Chuck

What? You says me that Windows XP doesn't means "Xtremely Parallel"???? Oh, my world came to an end :'(

On 7/31/2012 9:05 PM, Adrian Stoness wrote: What could the Burroughs looking "B 32" sticker be about ? Did Burroughs produce rk05 media ?

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:23:21PM -0500, Adrian Stoness wrote: Beware, they might look the same physically, but you might not be able to read them on your rk05. Is it possible to do some kind of "low level" format (whatever that means) using an rk05? /P

So in that respect it would be worthy to know if the packs on eBay are 12 or 16 sectored? 12 sectored ones are relative more common than the 16 sectored ones AFAIK. Ed -- Dit is een HTML vrije email / This is an HTML free email. Zeg NEE tegen de 'slimme' meter.

They are for a Burroughs machine, apparently, so all bets are off as to what the sectoring is. They could even be something...weird... <<<< They are labelled "B-32" which, combined with a bit of research in the bitsavers archive leads me to believe that they are For a B700 series machine 32 sectors each with 180 bytes (+headers) of user data (almost certainly hard sectored) Either 200 or 400 tracks Andy

Everyone used that style of disk. -- Will

there was diablos On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:41 PM, mc68010 <mc68010 at gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/13/2012 5:38 PM, Adrian Stoness wrote: It's funny how eBay without pictures is basically Craigslist only really slow.

On 8/13/2012 5:28 PM, mc68010 wrote: Yeah, that's a nice machine, and the price seems about right. Then again, once you factor in shipping to my neck of the woods (Seattle) it's considerably more prohibitive :). Wish stuff like that would show up here more often, I'd love a system like that. - Josh

On 8/13/2012 6:37 PM, Adrian Stoness wrote: Last time I had something like that shipped (an 11/40 + RK05, RL02, from SC) it cost right around $600. - Josh

In article <5029AFD4.1050302 at gmail.com>, Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> writes: For comparison, shipping an SGI Origin 2000 sized rack (comparable in size to the 11/34 shown, not sure about weight) from Florida to Salt Lake City was going to cost me $1,000. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

On 8/13/2012 5:28 PM, mc68010 wrote: I didn't have any problem with picture load speed. The same vendor has a Gerber printer for sale as well for $499 http://www.ebay.com/itm/200806422757 There is interesting analog gear at the top of the system. From that I'm not sure if it would be part of a system which needed the Gerber, given its use as a circuit board process tool, though. Jim

On 08/14/2012 04:12 AM, mc68010 wrote: ...and I'm looking at the Gerber! (the PDP-11 had nothing to do with it) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

On 8/21/2012 10:18 PM, Adrian Stoness wrote: After reading the comments it looks like this is pretty old news. Well they found it on their own so, good for them anyway.

On 8/21/2012 11:39 PM, Al Kossow wrote: Made me a little sad how many (RIP) there were in your post. They will live forever in the SE ROM anyway. Probably better than many of us can hope for.

On 14/05/2013, at 2:30 PM, mc68010 <mc68010 at gmail.com> wrote: It's at a winery, so maybe you also get to drink all the wine you can while you're in there working.. Personally, I work better with beer (especially on Windows NT).

On Mon, 13 May 2013, mc68010 wrote: Does anyone who can do this feel playful enough to string this guy along for a while, making sure you let him know that you're retired and rub it in that he's insane? -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?