12 Apr
2001
12 Apr
'01
3:55 p.m.
Very impressive level of completeness, here. Bravo!
-Dave
On April 12, Musicman38 wrote:
Here's a partial list of my collection.
I have many more just not cataloged yet..
My Favorite is the Original Commodore Pet 8K,
and Original Osborne 01 Tan case..
All my computers are working with the exception of 2 or 3..
Phil...
Apple 2C Mint Monitor, Prtr,Manuals
Apple 2GS Mint Prtr,Monitor,Drive
Apple II Mint Assorted cards
Apple IIe Mint 80 col card
Apple IIe Mint DuoDisk,SCSI,Manuals
Apple Iie Platinum good Asst Cards
Apple II-plus dead Assorted Cards
Atari XE Mint Kybrd, lots games
Atari 400 Mint Many Extras + Carts
Columbia XT Portable Mint 10 Meg Hard Drive
Columbia XT Portable Dead Dual Floppy drives
Columbia XT Portable Good Dual Floppy
Columbia XT Portable Good 20 Mag HD
Corona Portable XT VGood Dual Floppy
Commodore 128 Mint Mint, Floppy, Printer
Commodore 128 Good Missing 2 keys works
Commodore 128 Ukwn Not Tested
Commodore 16 Mint Box,Cassette,Manuals
Commodore 16 Mint Box, Manuals
Commodore 64 mint Box,Manuals
Commodore 64 Mint Box,Manuals
Commodore 64SX Exec Mint Runs great
Commodore 64SX Dead Very Clean
Commodore 8032 vgood 32K Ram
Commodore Amiga 500 Mint Stock
Commodore C128D Mint W/Kybd
Commodore C128D Dead W/Kybd
Commodore Pet Good
Commodore Plus/4 Mint Box, Manuals
Commodore Plus/4 Vgood Box, Manuals
Commodore Plus/4 Mint In Box w/Manual
Commodore Vic-20 M1 Mint Box, Manuals
Commodore Vic-20 M2 Mint Box, Manuals
Compaq Portable XT mint Dual Floppy
Compaq Portable XT Mint Dual Floppy
Compaq Portable XT Good 10 MB Hard Drive
Compaq Portable XT Plus Dead 10 MB Hard Drive
Compaq Portable II 286 Mint 20 MB Hard Drive
Compaq Portable II 286 Mint 20 MB HD & Modem
Franklin Ace 1200 Mint Dual Drive, Manuals
IBM PC-Junior Mint Monitor, Expanded
IBM PC-Junior Mint Monitor
IBM PC-Junior Ukwn
IBM PC-Junior Ukwn
IBM Portable XT 5155 VGood Hard Drive, Floppy
IBM PC-XT VGood Dual Floppy,10MB HD
IBM PC-XT Mint Color,HD,20MB
Kaypro 1 Vgood Works Perfectly
Kaypro 1 Vgood Manuals Software
Kaypro 10 Good Bad Hard Drive
Kaypro 10 Vgood Works Fine
Kaypro 10 Mint Perfect all Books/Sftwre
Kaypro 16 Vgood Work Fine
Kaypro 16-F Mint Dual Floppy - Rare
Kaypro 2 Vgood Manuals, SOftware
Kaypro 2X Good Mint CP/M & Manuals
Kaypro 4-84 Mint Carrying Case
Kaypro II Mint Manuals, Carry Case
Kaypro II Good Works OK
Laser 128 Vgood Manual
Mattel Aquarius Mint Manuals, Cassette
Mattel Aquarius Good Manuals
Mattel Aquarius Mint Boxed w/All Periferals
Osborne 01-A Mint White Screen
Osborne 01-A Mint Green screen
Osborne 01-A Dead Tech Manuals
Osborne 01 Vgood Complete w/Manuals
Osborne Executive Mint Manuals, Software
Osborne Executive Poor Manuals, Software
Radio Shack CoCo 1 Good 4K,Gray,Chicklet keys
Radio Shack CoCo 1 Mint 16K, Manuals
Radio Shack CoCo 1 Good 16K Ram
Radio Shack CoCo 2 Mint 32K Ram, manuals
Radio Shack CoCo 2 Good 32K Ram
Radio Shack CoCo 2 Mint 64K Ram, Newer Kybd
Radio Shack CoCo 3 Mint 64K RAM
Radio Shack MC-10 Mint Box, Manuals,PS
Radio Shack MC-10 Mint PS
Radio Shack Model 1 Dead
Radio Shack Model 1 Mint Level II Basic 16K RAM
Radio Shack Model 100 Vgood Manual
Radio Shack Model 102 Vgood
Radio Shack Model 4 Good
Radio Shack Model 4P Mint Manuals, Software
Radio Shack Model 4P Good
Tandy 1200FD Vgood
Texas Instruments 99/4A Mint Silver/Blk
Texas Instruments 99/4A Mint Beige/Tan
Texas Instruments 99/4A Mint Mint in Box, Manual
Texas Instruments TI99 Mint Silver/Blk
Texas Instruments TI99 Mint Box,Manuals Beige
Texas Instruments TI99/4A Good Beige/Tan
TI-Expansion good Expansion Box Loaded
TI-Expansion & Manuals Mint Manuals, Everything Loaded
Timex 1000 poor Works
Zenith Z170 Mint Manual, Very Clean
Mac SE/30 Mint Clean, HD, SCSI
Mac Plus Vgood Clean
Mac Plus Vgood Clean
Mac II LC Vgood Kybds
Mac SE Vgood Clean
Mac Laptop Bad Clean
Mac 512 Vgood Clean
Mac Classic II Mint Clean, SCSI HD
12 Apr
12 Apr
6:54 p.m.
Yes, I must say I agree. And all but 2 or 3 working is REALLY
impressive.
I did have a chanve to get a Laser 128 (Apple II clone) today,
w/monitor, but no PS.
I passed on it. I did get another CoCo II and a Mattel Intellivision
(always wanted one).
I got a Commodore Colt a couple of months ago. Any one ever heard of
that?
Oh yes, I got 'Super Pong' from Atari today as well.
Eric
Dave McGuire wrote:
Very impressive level of completeness, here.
Bravo!
-Dave
On April 12, Musicman38 wrote:
> Here's a partial list of my collection.
> I have many more just not cataloged yet..
> My Favorite is the Original Commodore Pet 8K,
> and Original Osborne 01 Tan case..
> All my computers are working with the exception of 2 or 3..
> Phil...
>
> Apple 2C Mint Monitor, Prtr,Manuals
> Apple 2GS Mint Prtr,Monitor,Drive
> Apple II Mint Assorted cards
> Apple IIe Mint 80 col card
> Apple IIe Mint DuoDisk,SCSI,Manuals
> Apple Iie Platinum good Asst Cards
> Apple II-plus dead Assorted Cards
> Atari XE Mint Kybrd, lots games
> Atari 400 Mint Many Extras + Carts
> Columbia XT Portable Mint 10 Meg Hard Drive
> Columbia XT Portable Dead Dual Floppy drives
> Columbia XT Portable Good Dual Floppy
> Columbia XT Portable Good 20 Mag HD
> Corona Portable XT VGood Dual Floppy
> Commodore 128 Mint Mint, Floppy, Printer
> Commodore 128 Good Missing 2 keys works
> Commodore 128 Ukwn Not Tested
> Commodore 16 Mint Box,Cassette,Manuals
> Commodore 16 Mint Box, Manuals
> Commodore 64 mint Box,Manuals
> Commodore 64 Mint Box,Manuals
> Commodore 64SX Exec Mint Runs great
> Commodore 64SX Dead Very Clean
> Commodore 8032 vgood 32K Ram
> Commodore Amiga 500 Mint Stock
> Commodore C128D Mint W/Kybd
> Commodore C128D Dead W/Kybd
> Commodore Pet Good
> Commodore Plus/4 Mint Box, Manuals
> Commodore Plus/4 Vgood Box, Manuals
> Commodore Plus/4 Mint In Box w/Manual
> Commodore Vic-20 M1 Mint Box, Manuals
> Commodore Vic-20 M2 Mint Box, Manuals
> Compaq Portable XT mint Dual Floppy
> Compaq Portable XT Mint Dual Floppy
> Compaq Portable XT Good 10 MB Hard Drive
> Compaq Portable XT Plus Dead 10 MB Hard Drive
> Compaq Portable II 286 Mint 20 MB Hard Drive
> Compaq Portable II 286 Mint 20 MB HD & Modem
> Franklin Ace 1200 Mint Dual Drive, Manuals
> IBM PC-Junior Mint Monitor, Expanded
> IBM PC-Junior Mint Monitor
> IBM PC-Junior Ukwn
> IBM PC-Junior Ukwn
> IBM Portable XT 5155 VGood Hard Drive, Floppy
> IBM PC-XT VGood Dual Floppy,10MB HD
> IBM PC-XT Mint Color,HD,20MB
> Kaypro 1 Vgood Works Perfectly
> Kaypro 1 Vgood Manuals Software
> Kaypro 10 Good Bad Hard Drive
> Kaypro 10 Vgood Works Fine
> Kaypro 10 Mint Perfect all Books/Sftwre
> Kaypro 16 Vgood Work Fine
> Kaypro 16-F Mint Dual Floppy - Rare
> Kaypro 2 Vgood Manuals, SOftware
> Kaypro 2X Good Mint CP/M & Manuals
> Kaypro 4-84 Mint Carrying Case
> Kaypro II Mint Manuals, Carry Case
> Kaypro II Good Works OK
> Laser 128 Vgood Manual
> Mattel Aquarius Mint Manuals, Cassette
> Mattel Aquarius Good Manuals
> Mattel Aquarius Mint Boxed w/All Periferals
> Osborne 01-A Mint White Screen
> Osborne 01-A Mint Green screen
> Osborne 01-A Dead Tech Manuals
> Osborne 01 Vgood Complete w/Manuals
> Osborne Executive Mint Manuals, Software
> Osborne Executive Poor Manuals, Software
> Radio Shack CoCo 1 Good 4K,Gray,Chicklet keys
> Radio Shack CoCo 1 Mint 16K, Manuals
> Radio Shack CoCo 1 Good 16K Ram
> Radio Shack CoCo 2 Mint 32K Ram, manuals
> Radio Shack CoCo 2 Good 32K Ram
> Radio Shack CoCo 2 Mint 64K Ram, Newer Kybd
> Radio Shack CoCo 3 Mint 64K RAM
> Radio Shack MC-10 Mint Box, Manuals,PS
> Radio Shack MC-10 Mint PS
> Radio Shack Model 1 Dead
> Radio Shack Model 1 Mint Level II Basic 16K RAM
> Radio Shack Model 100 Vgood Manual
> Radio Shack Model 102 Vgood
> Radio Shack Model 4 Good
> Radio Shack Model 4P Mint Manuals, Software
> Radio Shack Model 4P Good
> Tandy 1200FD Vgood
> Texas Instruments 99/4A Mint Silver/Blk
> Texas Instruments 99/4A Mint Beige/Tan
> Texas Instruments 99/4A Mint Mint in Box, Manual
> Texas Instruments TI99 Mint Silver/Blk
> Texas Instruments TI99 Mint Box,Manuals Beige
> Texas Instruments TI99/4A Good Beige/Tan
> TI-Expansion good Expansion Box Loaded
> TI-Expansion & Manuals Mint Manuals, Everything Loaded
> Timex 1000 poor Works
> Zenith Z170 Mint Manual, Very Clean
> Mac SE/30 Mint Clean, HD, SCSI
> Mac Plus Vgood Clean
> Mac Plus Vgood Clean
> Mac II LC Vgood Kybds
> Mac SE Vgood Clean
> Mac Laptop Bad Clean
> Mac 512 Vgood Clean
> Mac Classic II Mint Clean, SCSI HD
>
7:34 p.m.
--- Eric Chomko <chomko(a)greenbelt.com> wrote:
I got a Commodore Colt a couple of months ago. Any one
ever heard of
that?
Yep Got one. I use it to program GALs for my Amiga product. I stuck
a 20Mb XT-IDE drive in it and an 8-bit NIC - I use the packet driver and
kermit to get ROM and GAL files on/off it.
For a Turbo-XT, it's OK. A little strange, but only because C= did
a bunch to make the hardware less involved to configure (they came up
with a Plug-n-Play scheme that seems to work OK for standard hardware
like parallel ports, serial ports, etc).
-ethan
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13 Apr
13 Apr
4:06 a.m.
Thanks for the info. I think I have an old ST225 around someplace.
Eric
Ethan Dicks wrote:
--- Eric Chomko <chomko(a)greenbelt.com> wrote:
I got a Commodore Colt a couple of months ago.
Any one ever heard of
that?
Yep Got one. I use it to program GALs for my Amiga product. I stuck
a 20Mb XT-IDE drive in it and an 8-bit NIC - I use the packet driver and
kermit to get ROM and GAL files on/off it.
For a Turbo-XT, it's OK. A little strange, but only because C= did
a bunch to make the hardware less involved to configure (they came up
with a Plug-n-Play scheme that seems to work OK for standard hardware
like parallel ports, serial ports, etc).
-ethan
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9:10 a.m.
New subject: Commodore Colt (was Re: My Collection)
--- Eric Chomko <chomko(a)greenbelt.com> wrote:
Thanks for the info. I think I have an old ST225
around someplace.
Eric
You'll need a Western Digital WX-1 or similar to throw in there. The Colt
has an 8-bit IDE port (there were a few 20Mb and 40Mb drives to that
standard - look for "X" at the end of the Seagate/Western Digital part number
(as opposed to A for IDE or S or N for SCSI))
If you _have_ an 80-bit MFM controller, it's probably easier to find an MFM
drive. I don't recall if there's room for a 5.25" hard disk in the box if
you have two floppies - the XT-IDE drives are all 3.5"
After getting through all of _that_, it'll be a decent little XT for you.
I think it's <CNTL><ALT>T for Turbo mode and <CNTL><ALT>S for
regular (slow)
mode. The machine will beep at different frequencies, using a CPU delay loop,
to indicate which speed it's at.
Enjoy,
-ethan
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9:45 a.m.
New subject: Commodore Colt (was Re: My Collection)
You'll need a Western Digital WX-1 or similar to
throw in there. The Colt
has an 8-bit IDE port (there were a few 20Mb and 40Mb drives to that
standard - look for "X" at the end of the Seagate/Western Digital part number
(as opposed to A for IDE or S or N for SCSI))
As far as I know, the 8bit IDE drives maxed out at 40meg,
with the Seagate drives jumper changable between 8 and 16bit
interfaces. They should be the same drives as used by Tandy as their
'Smartdrive' for the Tandy 1000 series that had 8bit IDE built in,
such as the TL/2 and SL/2 and above. I personally always preferred
the Seagate ST-351A/X out of the four drives available (20 and 40meg
from each WD and Seagate).
Jeff
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10:15 a.m.
New subject: Commodore Colt (was Re: My Collection)
That's the drive number I was attempting to pull out of my mental rump and I
may probably have one around here as I bought a bunch of them new at one
time for rebuild use and probably have one or two still around.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Hellige
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 1:45 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Commodore Colt (was Re: My Collection)
You'll need a Western Digital WX-1 or similar
to throw in there.
The Colt
has an 8-bit IDE port (there were a few 20Mb and
40Mb drives to that
standard - look for "X" at the end of the Seagate/Western
Digital part
number
(as opposed to A for IDE or S or N for SCSI))
As far as I know, the 8bit IDE drives maxed out at 40meg,
with the Seagate drives jumper changable between 8 and 16bit
interfaces. They should be the same drives as used by Tandy as their
'Smartdrive' for the Tandy 1000 series that had 8bit IDE built in,
such as the TL/2 and SL/2 and above. I personally always preferred
the Seagate ST-351A/X out of the four drives available (20 and 40meg
from each WD and Seagate).
Jeff
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10:02 a.m.
New subject: Commodore Colt (was Re: My Collection)
I probably have a suitable WDC or Seagate somewhere around here for it but
have to check. I know I have a ton of Seagate ST-3250A's but have to see
what I have in the XT line - may even have a box full of working Minscribe's
somewhere in storage, although finding an 80 might be a chance in a million.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 1:10 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Commodore Colt (was Re: My Collection)
--- Eric Chomko <chomko(a)greenbelt.com> wrote:
Thanks for the info. I think I have an old ST225
around someplace.
Eric
You'll need a Western Digital WX-1 or similar to throw in there. The Colt
has an 8-bit IDE port (there were a few 20Mb and 40Mb drives to that
standard - look for "X" at the end of the Seagate/Western Digital
part number
(as opposed to A for IDE or S or N for SCSI))
If you _have_ an 80-bit MFM controller, it's probably easier to
find an MFM
drive. I don't recall if there's room for a 5.25" hard disk in the box if
you have two floppies - the XT-IDE drives are all 3.5"
After getting through all of _that_, it'll be a decent little XT for you.
I think it's <CNTL><ALT>T for Turbo mode and <CNTL><ALT>S
for
regular (slow)
mode. The machine will beep at different frequencies, using a
CPU delay loop,
to indicate which speed it's at.
Enjoy,
-ethan
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5:59 p.m.
New subject: Commodore Colt (was Re: My Collection)
I have a WD 40AP, which is an external HD with two female DB-25 connectors
(SCSI?) on it.
The rotating selector switch is from 0-F (all single hex digits, 16 in all,
twice what a Mac has -weird SCSI?). Could this device be what the C Colt can
use?
Eric
Russ Blakeman wrote:
I probably have a suitable WDC or Seagate somewhere
around here for it but
have to check. I know I have a ton of Seagate ST-3250A's but have to see
what I have in the XT line - may even have a box full of working Minscribe's
somewhere in storage, although finding an 80 might be a chance in a million.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 1:10 PM
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: Commodore Colt (was Re: My Collection)
>
>
> --- Eric Chomko <chomko(a)greenbelt.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the info. I think I have an old ST225 around someplace.
> >
> > Eric
>
> You'll need a Western Digital WX-1 or similar to throw in there. The Colt
> has an 8-bit IDE port (there were a few 20Mb and 40Mb drives to that
> standard - look for "X" at the end of the Seagate/Western Digital
> part number
> (as opposed to A for IDE or S or N for SCSI))
>
> If you _have_ an 80-bit MFM controller, it's probably easier to
> find an MFM
> drive. I don't recall if there's room for a 5.25" hard disk in the box
if
> you have two floppies - the XT-IDE drives are all 3.5"
>
> After getting through all of _that_, it'll be a decent little XT for you.
> I think it's <CNTL><ALT>T for Turbo mode and
<CNTL><ALT>S for
> regular (slow)
> mode. The machine will beep at different frequencies, using a
> CPU delay loop,
> to indicate which speed it's at.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> -ethan
>
>
>
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14 Apr
11:23 a.m.
New subject: Commodore Colt (was Re: My Collection)
--- Eric Chomko <chomko(a)greenbelt.com> wrote:
I have a WD 40AP, which is an external HD with two
female DB-25 connectors
(SCSI?) on it.
Possibly. What's the connection to the drive? If it's 50-pin, in all
likelyhood, it's narrow SCSI.
The rotating selector switch is from 0-F (all single
hex digits, 16 in all,
twice what a Mac has -weird SCSI?).
I've seen external SCSI devices (SCSI ethernet, for example) that used
the second set of numbers to enable termination - 9 = SCSI ID 1 with
termination enabled.
Could this device be what the C Colt can use?
Colts used internal 8-bit IDE drives (X suffix). It has 40 pins, just
like an AT IDE drive, but different at the register level (AT IDE emulates
a WD-1003 controller; I don't know what XT IDE emulates).
You can stick an 8-bit MFM/RLL controller in a Colt and go that route,
too.
-ethan
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