I' plan on arriving there between 1 and 2 Friday afternoon. If there is
anything else you want me to bring please email me off list today.
If you have any US/ foreign coins/currency I'm interested in trading or
buying them.
Thanks, Paul
Folks,
The Northwest Computer Museum in Leigh, Lancashire is having a jumble
sale this coming Saturday.
https://www.facebook.com/events/leigh-spinners-mill/tech-jumble-sale/129448…
They have said I can have a table as well so I will be bringing along
some of my /junk /oops surplus bits and bobs.
I will have floppy disks, floppy disk drives, disk drives, keyboards,
bits of Sun SPARC station, RS232 leads, PCI cards..
.. all "as seen" , most for donations to the Museum...
Dave
Time to clean out my basement.
These are going to e-waste unless somebody wants them:
Compaq Presario SR1010NX. Don't know whether it works.
HP desktop box with MB and PS, no DVD, not working.
Dell power supplies for data center clusters: 4 × N750P-50. 1 × PS-
2521-1D
2 × CC8823 power supplies for network switches (don't know the
manufacturer; 3Com?)
3 × Ultrium fiber-channel tape drives. and a few cartridges
PowerOne switching power supply Model SPM5A2M6G1K, 1 × 48VDC @ 5A, 3 ×
12VDC @ 10A, 1 × 5 VDC @ 150A.
Local pick-up in La Crescenta, CA is OK.
Time to clean out my basement.
These are going to e-waste unless somebody wants them:
Compaq Presario SR1010NX. Don't know whether it works.
HP desktop box with MB and PS, no DVD, not working.
Dell power supplies for data center clusters: 4 × N750P-50. 1 × PS-
2521-1D
3 × Ultrium fiber-channel tape drives. and a few cartridges
PowerOne switching power supply Model SPM5A2M6G1K, 1 × 48VDC @ 5A, 3 ×
12VDC @ 10A, 1 × 5 VDC @ 150A.
Local pick-up in La Crescenta, CA is OK.
Some months back I started working on a Philips P3800 computer, there
was a long discussion here about the power switch and its unusual
cylinder lock. At least one person was interested enough in the lock
to say they would like to see it with a view to making a key
At the time I didn't want to post the lock anywhere as I could have
been left with a incomplete and unrepairable machine.
Other projects, some of them classic-computer related got in the way.
but over the last few days I've gone back to the P3800 and have made a
spindle to effectively replace this lock and allow the power switch to
be knob-operated (security is not an issue in my workshop :-)). Thus I
could manage without the lock if I have to.
So if the offer is still open I would consider posting the lock
somewhere (preferably in .uk)
Obviously it's 'work on it as and when you feel like it'. There's a
lot of electronics for me to work on, and I'll probably take many
months to sort that out.
-tony
Just relaying a message here, for those who maybe don't requent the VCF
forum itself.
A 1st-post person says he's original owner of a Datapoint 2200, and is
looking to find a good owner (museum) for it. Not sure where he is
presently located, but the CRT of this DP needs attention - and I'm fairly
useless in that department.
In the Genre|Others section.
https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/new-datapoint-2200-owner.1244800/…
May be a pre "A" or "B" version, since it has the original tape decks at
top? In any case, likely a pre-1974 model for sure.
-Steve
I read that B. Gates has released 'BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version
1.1' that has 6955 lines of assembly language code. I would say this
qualifies as a major event in the classic computing world.
Happy computing!
Murray 🙂
This might be the wrong list to ask, but here's the question:
I have a Compaq Presario gathering dust in my garage.
Does anybody want it?
Shipping might cost more than its value, but local pickup is OK with
me.
Van Snyder
La Crescenta, CA
Apologies in advance to anyone who gets this multiple times.
I know a number of you are on more that one of these lists.
I'm looking for some information on a couple of the early
IBM unit record devices, in particular the Type 512A and
the Type 518. Ideally, I'd like to get the mechanical
dimensions in enough detail to create a CAD model.
The background is that I'd like to improve the model that
I'm using in my ENIAC simulator and I'm involved with a
school in Arizona that's working on a project to build a
full-scale model of the ENIAC. There's a letter from
IBM in the ENIAC archives that suggest the use of the
512A and the 518. So I'm pretty sure those are the ones
they used, but I haven't really been able to find any
details about them. We've found a fair amount of
information on the Type 513, and from photographs, the
punch used on the machine seems similar to the 513, but
is smaller.
Thanks in advance,
BLS
