15 Mar
2008
15 Mar
'08
8:20 p.m.
Any words of advise before I crack the case open and
void the warranty?
Be careful of the tube neck when taking off or putting back the top of the shell.
I've broken one myself. I think I have ONE more spare, but I'm hanging on to it.
The CRT is fastened to the top shell, and it is precariously close to the main board and
mountings in the back.
Kelly
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15 Mar
15 Mar
9:48 p.m.
The Sams Computerfacts for the Model 3 says the following about opening
the case:
"Place Computer on its side. Remove ten screws from the cabinet bottom.
Carefully place Computer in upright position. Remove one remaining screw
from rear of cabinet. Very carefully remove CRT and
cabinet top, lifting
straight up and setting it aside to the left (if facing CRT).
Be careful
not to exceed the length of the video cable."
How good is this procedure? Is the tube fairly well secured to the top
half of the cabinet?
Mike
9:27 p.m.
The Sams Computerfacts for the Model 3 says the following about opening
the case:
"Place Computer on its side. Remove ten screws from the cabinet bottom.
Carefully place Computer in upright position. Remove one remaining screw
from rear of cabinet. Very carefully remove CRT and cabinet top, lifting
straight up and setting it aside to the left (if facing CRT). Be careful
not to exceed the length of the video cable."
How good is this procedure? Is the tube fairly well secured to the top
half of the cabinet?
Oh yes. The CRT is helt on by 4 nuts through lugs on its tension band.
The nuts run onto studs moulded into the black plastic bezel.
The CRT is not going to fall out. The reason to be careful is that you
can break the neck of the CRT against things in the lower case.
-tony
16 Mar
16 Mar
5:39 p.m.
New subject: Vintage Kaypro
Vintage Kaypro on Ebay;
Item 300039229895 for only $ 25,000.00 !!
/ sac
4:54 p.m.
New subject: Vintage Kaypro
Interesting how they carefully avoid saying the S/N is a TRACOR test set
s/n and NOT the Kaypro number. This unit has been on epay before
with almost the same verbiage. ahh well... caviat emptor
s shumaker.
back to lurking now
Scanning wrote:
Vintage Kaypro on Ebay;
Item 300039229895 for only $ 25,000.00 !!
/ sac
5:49 p.m.
New subject: Vintage Kaypro
On Sunday 16 March 2008 12:54, Steve Shumaker wrote:
Interesting how they carefully avoid saying the S/N is
a TRACOR test set
s/n and NOT the Kaypro number. This unit has been on epay before
with almost the same verbiage. ahh well... caviat emptor
s shumaker.
back to lurking now
Scanning wrote:
> Vintage Kaypro on Ebay;
>
> Item 300039229895 for only $ 25,000.00 !!
>
> / sac
I'm not familiar with TRACOR nor do I understand the significance of the s/n.
I do however have oh, six or so of those machines. :-)
I thought only the real earliest ones were 2.5 MHz speed, though? And those
didn't come with fans, which that page mentions it having. I know that only
some of mine have a fan, some don't.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
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M Dakin
6:30 p.m.
New subject: Vintage Kaypro
They were a large electronics contractor in the defense arena in the
60/70/80s Bought by Marconi in 1998.
Based on the description, it would seem that the Kaypro was incorporated
into some type of "test set" which was designed/built for a govt
contract. Was not uncommon to add s/n label plates to such equipment
with s/ns starting at 001 because that allowed the custom built hardware
to be tracked as part of a contract. So this unit could be nothing
more than the Kaypro with a custom data connector, OR the entire inside
could be custom hardware/software.
s shumaker
back to lurking now
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Sunday 16 March 2008 12:54, Steve Shumaker wrote:
Interesting how they carefully avoid saying the
S/N is a TRACOR test set
s/n and NOT the Kaypro number. This unit has been on epay before
with almost the same verbiage. ahh well... caviat emptor
s shumaker.
back to lurking now
Scanning wrote:
> Vintage Kaypro on Ebay;
>
> Item 300039229895 for only $ 25,000.00 !!
>
> / sac
I'm not familiar with TRACOR nor do I understand the significance of the s/n.
I do however have oh, six or so of those machines. :-)
I thought only the real earliest ones were 2.5 MHz speed, though? And those
didn't come with fans, which that page mentions it having. I know that only
some of mine have a fan, some don't.
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