24 Jul
2001
24 Jul
'01
11:46 a.m.
Hi all
I am not a very "public" person but I could not turn this one down...
An offer for an interview with a big Montreal newspaper...
Photos and hour long interview about vintage computer collecting...show off
a bit of the collection etc...
Lets see if this will bring in some rare finds/offers or just emails from
people with 286s and XTs that will be asking $50 for them...
By the way, I still have the tape of CBCs Undercurrents and their report on
vintage computer collecting and hope to find a card to capture this and
transfer it to .avi or similar and let you all have a chance at seeing this
report...If anyone has a ATI capture card or similar I am open to
offers.....I have an old Spigot card here for NUbus MAcs but doubt that will
produce anything pleasant...
Claude
http://www.members.tripod.com/computer_collector
or
http://computer_collector.tripod.com
24 Jul
24 Jul
12:56 p.m.
I might have an extra Sunvideo capture board for SBUS... if you're interested
I can look around for it.
Claude.W said:
Hi all
I am not a very "public" person but I could not turn this one down...
An offer for an interview with a big Montreal newspaper...
Photos and hour long interview about vintage computer collecting...show off
a bit of the collection etc...
Lets see if this will bring in some rare finds/offers or just emails from
people with 286s and XTs that will be asking $50 for them...
By the way, I still have the tape of CBCs Undercurrents and their report on
vintage computer collecting and hope to find a card to capture this and
transfer it to .avi or similar and let you all have a chance at seeing this
report...If anyone has a ATI capture card or similar I am open to
offers.....I have an old Spigot card here for NUbus MAcs but doubt that will
produce anything pleasant...
Claude
http://www.members.tripod.com/computer_collector
or
http://computer_collector.tripod.com
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
(UNIX Systems Administrator, School of Chemical Sciences)
(333-1728)
1:01 p.m.
New subject: Big newspaper interview for me! (lets see whats gonna happen
On 24-Jul-2001 Claude.W wrote:
Hi all
I am not a very "public" person but I could not turn this one down...
An offer for an interview with a big Montreal newspaper...
Which paper? I'd
like to grab a copy when it's published.
Lets see if this will bring in some rare finds/offers
or just emails
from people with 286s and XTs that will be asking $50 for them...
A local school is selling off all it's 486s for 200 CAD each. I scoff!
People seem to expect an inordinate amount for old computers. Using
Moore's metric, a computer's price is halved every 1.5 years. So that
pentium 100Mhz laptop you paid 3000 for 6 years ago is now worth 750 or so
NOT 1500. *sigh* Heck, I could get a 1ghz celeron desktop for that much!
Rant rant rant rant.
By the way, I still have the tape of CBCs
Undercurrents and their report
on vintage computer collecting and hope to find a card to capture this
and transfer it to .avi or similar and let you all have a chance at
seeing this report...If anyone has a ATI capture card or similar I am
open to offers.....I have an old Spigot card here for NUbus MAcs but
doubt that will produce anything pleasant...
I have a friend who was very much into ATI capture cards. Dunno if he's
got a working one to give away, though. I'll ask next time I see him.
-Philip
1:28 p.m.
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A local school is selling off all it's 486s for 200 CAD each. I scoff!
People seem to expect an inordinate amount for old computers. Using
Moore's metric, a computer's price is halved every 1.5 years. So that
pentium 100Mhz laptop you paid 3000 for 6 years ago is now worth 750 or so
NOT 1500. *sigh* Heck, I could get a 1ghz celeron desktop for that much!
Rant rant rant rant.
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It's worse than your think:
6/1.5 = 4
2^4 = 16
3000/16 = $187.50
John A.
(unless its a HiNote <g>)
1:37 p.m.
New subject: Big newspaper interview for me! (lets see whats gonna happen
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, John Allain wrote:
It's worse than your think:
6/1.5 = 4
2^4 = 16
3000/16 = $187.50
Much better ;)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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1:32 p.m.
New subject: Big newspaper interview for me! (lets see whats gonna happen
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 gwynp(a)artware.qc.ca wrote:
Moore's metric, a computer's price is halved
every 1.5 years. So that
pentium 100Mhz laptop you paid 3000 for 6 years ago is now worth 750 or so
NOT 1500. *sigh* Heck, I could get a 1ghz celeron desktop for that much!
Not even that. A 100Mhz laptop should fetch no more than $100-$150 tops.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
5:50 p.m.
New subject: Big newspaper interview for me! (lets see whats gonna happen
Here they sell complete 133 Compaq systems for $40 at auction all the
time. You get a cpu, monitor, kb, and mouse. I have seen complete IBM
90's and 100's go for $1 per system with no takers.
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From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:32 PM
Subject: RE: Big newspaper interview for me! (lets see whats gonna
happen
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 gwynp(a)artware.qc.ca wrote:
> Moore's metric, a computer's price is halved every 1.5 years. So
that
> pentium 100Mhz laptop you paid 3000 for 6 years
ago is now worth 750
or so
> NOT 1500. *sigh* Heck, I could get a 1ghz
celeron desktop for that
much!
Not even that. A 100Mhz laptop should fetch no more than $100-$150
tops.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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International Man of Intrigue and Danger
http://www.vintage.org
3:56 p.m.
New subject: Recent stuff
Remember in 'Adolesence of P1' when P1 got his first new core crystal with
all the new space? An additional room to work with is allowing me to (start
to)
finally get a handle on my documentation impairment. ;) If you don't mind
a 430k jpg then check out:
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/d/o/dogas/COMPOSITE2.jpg
for some of it. I'll shortly be a trimmin, givin, and a tradin. (And
catching up on some backlogged copy distribution too. ) I did note an
extra:
Vax Architecture Reference Manual, a TRS-80 Level II Basic - A Self Teaching
Guide, and a Newton - Defying Gravity that I'd trade for a few Zip floppies
or
a color cartridge for my Epson Stylus Color 1520 printer .
Last week was great for new toys too. Thank you Joel! There is now a
Tektronix 8002A on the road and getting closer to me as I write this. I'll
post an update when it arrives. And then at last week's fleamarket, I found
an Intel mscope 820 Microprocessor System Console with an 8080A mscope
probe, and a mscope personality prom board. Hereare a few pics:
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/d/o/dogas/I8201.jpg
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/d/o/dogas/I8202.jpg
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/d/o/dogas/I8203.jpg
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/d/o/dogas/I8204.jpg
I don't have an 8080 system on hand to hook 'er up at the moment. Anyone
familiar with it?
;)
- Mike: dogas(a)bellsouth.net
25 Jul
25 Jul
11:14 a.m.
New subject: Recent stuff
At 08:56 PM 7/24/01 -0400, you wrote:
Remember in 'Adolesence of P1' when P1 got his
first new core crystal with
all the new space? An additional room to work with is allowing me to (start
to)
finally get a handle on my documentation impairment. ;) If you don't mind
a 430k jpg then check out:
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/d/o/dogas/COMPOSITE2.jpg
for some of it. I'll shortly be a trimmin, givin, and a tradin.
Hey, keep me in mind!
(And
catching up on some backlogged copy distribution too. ) I did note an
extra:
Vax Architecture Reference Manual, a TRS-80 Level II Basic - A Self Teaching
Guide, and a Newton - Defying Gravity that I'd trade for a few Zip floppies
or
a color cartridge for my Epson Stylus Color 1520 printer .
Last week was great for new toys too. Thank you Joel! There is now a
Tektronix 8002A on the road and getting closer to me as I write this. I'll
post an update when it arrives. And then at last week's fleamarket, I found
an Intel mscope 820 Microprocessor System Console with an 8080A mscope
probe, and a mscope personality prom board.
Very cool! I just picked up an old Intel catalog and it shows this
thing but this is the first one time that I've heard of anyone that had
one. BTW I know where there are some Intel pods that look like they fit
this thing.
Let me know when the 8002 arrives.
Joe
Hereare a few pics:
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/d/o/dogas/I8201.jpg
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/d/o/dogas/I8202.jpg
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/d/o/dogas/I8203.jpg
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/d/o/dogas/I8204.jpg
I don't have an 8080 system on hand to hook 'er up at the moment. Anyone
familiar with it?
;)
- Mike: dogas(a)bellsouth.net
24 Jul
24 Jul
1:27 p.m.
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Claude.W wrote:
An offer for an interview with a big Montreal
newspaper...
Photos and hour long interview about vintage computer collecting...show off
a bit of the collection etc...
Cool deal.
Lets see if this will bring in some rare finds/offers
or just emails from
people with 286s and XTs that will be asking $50 for them...
You'll definitely get plenty of these, but you'll most likely also receive
some good offers.
I usually steer the people with original IBM PC stuff to the list,
otherwise I suggest to them that they donate it to their local community
college so the students can use them for spare parts for various projects.
I no longer suggest Goodwill or Salvation Army as those orgs have stopped
taking old 80s era PCs.
By the way, I still have the tape of CBCs
Undercurrents and their
report on vintage computer collecting and hope to find a card to
capture this and transfer it to .avi or similar and let you all have a
chance at seeing this report...If anyone has a ATI capture card or
similar I am open to offers.....I have an old Spigot card here for
NUbus MAcs but doubt that will produce anything pleasant...
I'm setup with a video capture board and can convert the tape pretty
readily. Send me a copy and I'll see about digitizing it when I get back
from VCF East.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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5:46 p.m.
Hi all....
Well no news on when this will be in the paper yet but I am just praying it
wont be a kinda headline like:
SUBURBAN WEIRDO IS PILING UP OLD COMPUTERS IN BASEMENT - WIFE SAYS : "ITS ME
OR THE MACHINES!!!"
No I am just kidding, its a very serious well established french language
newspaper with a large circulation here in Quebec....LaPresse...but when?
If the pictures are bad (I had finished work very late that night and got 4
hours of sleep before reporter came) I wont talk about it ever again...
They also interviewed a console collector friend....
The lady was in a hurry to meet me, I was told by the console collector
friends the article was gonna go into the paper this week...
They took quite a few pictures of me holding up a TRS80 MC-10 with a
SuperPET in the background and all my selves and machines...the lady looked
impressed but Its hard to make people who have not used computers
extensively most of their lives, understand how you can get "excited" for
this kinda stuff...
Claude
http://computer_collector.tripod.com
from
Festival
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Claude.W wrote:
> An offer for an interview with a big Montreal newspaper...
> Photos and hour long interview about
vintage computer collecting...show
off
a bit of the
collection etc...
Cool deal.
> Lets see if this will bring in some rare finds/offers or just emails people with
286s and XTs that will be asking $50 for them...
You'll definitely get plenty of these, but you'll most likely also receive
some good offers.
I usually steer the people with original IBM PC stuff to the list,
otherwise I suggest to them that they donate it to their local community
college so the students can use them for spare parts for various projects.
I no longer suggest Goodwill or Salvation Army as those orgs have stopped
taking old 80s era PCs.
By the way, I still have the tape of CBCs
Undercurrents and their
report on vintage computer collecting and hope to find a card to
capture this and transfer it to .avi or similar and let you all have a
chance at seeing this report...If anyone has a ATI capture card or
similar I am open to offers.....I have an old Spigot card here for
NUbus MAcs but doubt that will produce anything pleasant...
I'm setup with a video capture board and can convert the tape pretty
readily. Send me a copy and I'll see about digitizing it when I get back
from VCF East.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
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allain＠panix.com -
claudew＠videotron.ca -
dogas＠bellsouth.net -
dtwright＠uiuc.edu -
foo＠siconic.com -
gwynp＠artware.qc.ca -
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rigdonj＠intellistar.net