On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Loboyko Steve wrote: Very nice. Not worth $500 (the current high bid). Absolute crap as in nothing is selling? I've been snatching up stuff for bargain prices. It seems nobody has money these days, at least for old video game stuff. I don't have money either but I'm taking advantage of the situation. This is the only time I like eBay. Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

There does seem to be a minor eBay depression on most items. I snagged the first 16 issues of Byte for $20 the other day! That's far and away the lowest I've ever seen Byte #1-#16 go for and I've seen just the first issue sell for over $100 regularly. I haven't, however, seen any Altair systems on auction for weeks. I've been tracking these for the past 6+ months to monitor prices and I can't imagine that the next few to go on auction won't fetch a premium due to the pent up demand. Erik -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chandra Bajpai Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 4:06 AM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: RE: Check out the Workmanship... Sellam...I think your right, I've seen a lot of weakness in prices on a lot of things...(e.g. Commodore SuperPETS for $90), but certain items see to be the same price as they used to be, for example..Apple Lisa's still get $300-$350 Any other examples of price weaknesses due to this economy? Have Altair's come down in price? Only if I had money.... -Chandra -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Sellam Ismail Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 7:35 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Check out the Workmanship... On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Loboyko Steve wrote: Very nice. Not worth $500 (the current high bid). Absolute crap as in nothing is selling? I've been snatching up stuff for bargain prices. It seems nobody has money these days, at least for old video game stuff. I don't have money either but I'm taking advantage of the situation. This is the only time I like eBay. Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

Hi, A friend of mine is looking for a spare 9" tape drive, anyone have one for sale or free (just pay shipping) ??? Curt

On Friday 09 August 2002 06:56, Sellam Ismail wrote: I have a used one and I couldn't give it away, same with the Apple II e, mac plus SE and CE. But then again this was posted to a local news group I did get a KIM this week, but had to take a bag of QIC 80 tapes and 2 CISCO 1001 lan extenders with it.

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Mike wrote: The Sharp PC5000 is in a league way above ordinary Apple II's and Macs. The PC-5000 is definitely not ordinary. Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

Philip Pemberton wrote: Well, rare or not, I have both a KIM-1 and a SYM-1. No sign of the AIM-65, though. I've also got a 6800 development board, the Motorola MEK-D2. -- John Honniball coredump(a)gifford.co.uk

A lot of backlite LCDs panels use a soda-straw sized floresent bulb. The bulbs go bad after a few years. If you're carefull you might be able to open it up and replace the bulb. joe At 04:24 PM 8/23/02 -0600, you wrote:

Let me know when you start seeing Imsai 8080's at bargain basement prices ;-) Curt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.comTo: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.orgSent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 7:34 PM Subject: Re: Check out the Workmanship... Festival ---- http://www.vintage.org www.VintageTech.com *

My bad, you're absolutely right. I only gave them a precursory glance and should have looked better. The Model II I have has the Shugart 8" drive. Plus, it has the disk extender module that supplies another 3 8" drives for a total of 4 drives (2MB of space!). This all came with a table that the disk extender slides into and the console sits on top. The table is in TRS colours, so I assume it's a Radio Shack thing. The story behind this machine is that it was used by the city of Dallas, TX, for accounting for awhile, then sold to the Mason City Air Service, then given to the Pioneer museum. The museum director gave it to me because, as she said, although it might be a pioneer in the computer world, wagon trains didn't have Trash80s. :) Tarsi 210 -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Email: tarsi(a)binhost.com Homepage: http://tarsi.binhost.com You'll often find me online at The Forever Beyond, an all-ages talker. www.foreverbeyond.org Become a Curator! www.computershelter.org Need Hosting? www.binhost.com ------------------------------------------------------------

I'm fairly certain that the TRS-80 Model II uses plain old everyday run-of-the-mill vanilla single-sided 8-inch diskettes. Perhaps you at one time may have tried to use double-sided 8-inch diskettes, which have their index hold at a different location. Double-sided drives generally had two index sensors, but a double-sided diskette would not work in a single-sided drive. The TRS-80 Model II was shipped with single-sided drives, though it was capable of supporting double-sided and it wasn't uncommon for users to upgrade their drives. Later related models (12, 16, 16b, and 6000) used half-height drives, but I'm not sure whether the stock drives were single- or double-sided. Eric