Hi folk,
I am still looking for a DQ696 to allow me to get ESDI drives going on
both my microVAX and 11/73 since the Webster RQD11 controller failed I
only have the one. I'd also like to get old of an RQDX3 since I built a
Gesswein emulator and have nothing to test it with :-)
Any help appreciated,
Nigel
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Was wondering if anyone had one of these and/or maybe had the software
floppy kicking around? It's an ISA card with a Z80 + RAM to shove into an
ISA slot for CP/M compatibility. Of course, information's sparse online and
forget software.
Here's a picture of said card, https://i.imgur.com/eJh2on5.jpg .
-Chris
I've been working on a machine since early October that has seen a very
rough life. My inventory found it to be an IV/70 that was upgraded with an
IV/90 expansion chassis, an NP80 peripheral controller and a Wangco tape
system that I only received the the formatter for. I've been trying to
document most of the work so far on the vcfed forum and have a massive
payload of board and cable photos & board slot arrangements. There was also
boards for additional communication, disk and printing options I did not
receive and by backwards chance whie I do not have a terminal display I DO
have a keyboard, so that suddenly makes a keyboard-less terminal
considerably more desireable to me. I've sent a copy of the images off to Al
and to Gil Carrick over at the MITA but if anyone here wants a copy I can
send them a compressed file. It's 720mb in total. He has also supplied me
with some extra information and offered to loan a few items to assist in
testing but he has software and card stacks I currently cannot image and are
currently not imaged anywhere else that I have found. At this point I've
nailed down power supply and capacitor issues and am still working with
cabling and very, very little documentation, so I'm starting to run into
problems finding solutions for a number of problems regarding damaged
components and the IV/90 interconnect. I don't have the original IV/70
boardset for debugging.
Sellam, it was alluded that one point you also had a system. Is that still
the case? Does anyone have any additional information that can be grouped
together while I'm working to get this machine running again?
-John
This eBay seller reached out to me and said they had 4 of these things + a disk controller that they’re trying to get rid of ASAP, ignore the list price and message them. I am not affiliated, had just previously messaged them inquiring if they had NonStop media for it and they do. I don’t have the means to go get these things so figured I’d post here so hopefully they don’t end up scrapped.
[https://www.ebay.com/itm/255471320134](https://www.ebay.com/itm/25547132013…
Commodore 64's generally sell for between $75-$200 these days on eBay.
Finding good, working ones (working SID, VIC-II, etc.) with clean cases
that don't have broken edges or inner tabs is getting harder.
The C128D is a much different story. Those were not produced in nearly the
numbers of the C64. I only came across one in all my days of collecting
(that used to be in my collection).
Sellam
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 2:02 PM John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com> wrote:
> At 03:30 PM 12/12/2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
> >$700 for a C64? Egads, you've been watching too much bad cable TV.
>
> Hmm, not really. My memory was a little off... it was a C-128D
> system from my warehouse that sold a year ago for almost $700.
>
> - John
>
>
At 03:30 PM 12/12/2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
>$700 for a C64? Egads, you've been watching too much bad cable TV.
Hmm, not really. My memory was a little off... it was a C-128D
system from my warehouse that sold a year ago for almost $700.
- John
At 09:53 AM 12/12/2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
>No wonder the prices on vintage computer stuff has been going through the
>roof on eBay over the past couple years.
If you spent $1,000 on a Commodore 64 system in 1985,
that's about $2,800 in today's dollars, courtesy of inflation.
A working C-64 system might go for $700 on eBay today? But people
were giving them away not long ago. It's the bathtub curve.
I have a bunch of old Amiga posters up there now. I thought they'd
fetch nice prices but they've seen little interest so far.
I have other R@RE items I'll list. Who knows how they'll do.
I have a NewTek Digiview digitizer that is the populated circuit board.
The chips have not been sanded to remove their numbers, nor is
it potted in epoxy like all the retail production units.
I saw a recent sale of a Digiview-labelled parallel port gender-changer
that went for $30. Go figure. I have at least one.
At 10:06 AM 12/12/2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
>Holy crap, someone actually paid $810 for it?
They paid almost another $200 on top for the eBay global shipping program
and custom duties, too, as I had said I'll only ship to the USA.
- John
Hi all,
After some discussion on reddit about russian PDP-11 clones, i made the (perhaps erronous) claim that the PDP series in general was cloned by the Soviets.
I’m aware that there was a lot of QBUS/LSI PDP-11 clones, and depite poor documentation, there is significant evidence of PDP-8 clones. Also, depite not strictly a “PDP”, the VAX series was also cloned.
However, i’m curious whether anyone has any evidence of either the 18-bit or 36-bit PDP machines being cloned? I imagine that given the rather lacklustre success of the 18-bit series, that there would have been less demand for an 18-bit PDP machine in the Soviet Union, but i find it quite hard to believe that no attempt to clone the PDP-6 and PDP-10 machines would have been attempted.
Does anyone here have any information on such clones?
Cheers,
Josh Rice
At 01:20 AM 12/12/2022, John Herron via cctalk wrote:
>I haven't found the episode yet but this is their website with what I
>assume is the poster.
>https://gspawn.com/products/apple-computer-poster-map-of-silicon-valley-in-….
>They are asking $799.00.
That is a similar style, but not my poster. Mine was landscape, larger,
not branded by Apple. I can't read the copyright in the lower left.
My listing is still up: https://www.ebay.com/itm/334649989332
- John
