24 Oct
2007
24 Oct
'07
2:34 p.m.
OK, for a pile of stuff I got from dovebid, I used a new freight
shipper -- adcom worldwide. This time, the bill turned out to be
about $1/lb. I just wondered if that seemed reasonable, overpriced,
etc., or if anyone had any stories about adcom.
The packaging of the items was a little sloppy, but otherwise they
seemed OK. Better than CTS, but still not up to the level of
excellent service I've gotten with Craters & Freighters. (I would
have used C&F, but they don't have a location near Reading, PA.)
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24 Oct
24 Oct
3 p.m.
Never heard of Adcom,
I've been experiencing huge amounts of delays with NAVL, anyone else
have a door to door freight service they've had good dealing with?
I've got to get two arcade units here to the shop to restore for the
museum display.
Curt
Richard wrote:
OK, for a pile of stuff I got from dovebid, I used a
new freight
shipper -- adcom worldwide. This time, the bill turned out to be
about $1/lb. I just wondered if that seemed reasonable, overpriced,
etc., or if anyone had any stories about adcom.
The packaging of the items was a little sloppy, but otherwise they
seemed OK. Better than CTS, but still not up to the level of
excellent service I've gotten with Craters & Freighters. (I would
have used C&F, but they don't have a location near Reading, PA.)
3:49 p.m.
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Curt - Atari Museum wrote:
I've been experiencing huge amounts of delays
with NAVL, anyone else have a
door to door freight service they've had good dealing with? I've got to get
two arcade units here to the shop to restore for the museum display.
I've only used them once, but I had excellent service from Freight
Quote:
Tony Sidoti at 1-800-323-5441 EXT. 1383
tsidoti at freightquote.com
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
25 Oct
25 Oct
6:41 p.m.
New subject: Basic Four
Can one of you Basic Four experts identify the model for this control
panel?
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/Panels/index.html#Basic4
A picture of a complete system would be useful.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
7:44 p.m.
New subject: Basic Four
Mike Loewen wrote:
Can one of you Basic Four experts identify the model for this control
panel?
dont know the basic four model number, but it is a Microdata 1600 front
panel manufactured for Basic four. They licensed their own
version of the 1600 which formed the basis of their own manufactured
systems, but later migrated to 2901 based bit slice systems then to
68000's or such, I think.
They usually had front loading IOmec drives in them for disk drives.
Some systems had small pertec tape drives (1/2" 800 bpi)
Cabinet was about 4' high. Too high for a "desk" high, but not as tall
as most minicomputers.
They could handle 8 or 16 users via rs232 boards. They supported a
centronics or data products line printer (with same blue color scheme)
A photo of a Basic 4 system with such a front panel can be viewed here:
http://www.microdata-alumni.org/images/BasicFour_MicrodataCPU.jpg
A microdata system with a similar panel is here:
http://www.microdata-alumni.org/images/Reality_fullsystem.jpg
A Microdata maintainence panel is nicely displayed on a manual cover here:
http://www.microdata-alumni.org/images/computer_design_march1972_micro-babe…
Jim
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