Hello to all
Had a pretty slow week last week only a few finds will later in week. Today
I got a box load of SYM-1's somewere betweeen 15 and 20 of them. I still
have not unpacked all the goodies I got today. After I count them and look
them over I will offer them for trade or sale. I also got something called
a IVS TRUMPCARD 500 by Interactive Video System and have no idea what it is,
any help out there ? A copy of Disk Manager MAC in the box with manuals for
.07. Apple Writer II model M6000 for $5.35. Also a Shimndru RPR-G1 GC
Processor whatever that is, anyone ?? A HP model 2D-2 & 2D-3 Series X-Y
recorder service & operating manual. Over at the goodwill a Apple Scanner
flatbed model A9M0337 for $45. A Zenith Supersports 286 laptop for $5 and a
AMIGA 520 for .25. Well that's all for now have tons of things to test out
and will list later. Oh yes found a Next Cube today but the guy pulled it,
he had two of them with KB, Mono monitors and mice complete units were $20.
I will be going back next week to see if he will let them go. John Keep
Computing !!!
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From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Sorry, I need to get this to PG Manney, there was
Date: Sunday, November 02, 1997 7:56 AM
>> I'm new at collecting classics. What is a VIC-20?
>
>The VIC-20 was Commodore's first computer...2K of RAM (I think), did
sounds
>and color TV screen stuff.
>The VIC-20 was my only
>computer from '82-'86 unfortunatly I gave it away in '90, and I finally
got
>one to replace it today!
Congradulations on getting your VIC-20, and I would like to know about it's
specs.
>I believe TV's in Bahrain are PAL instead of NTSC, or maybe I'm thinking
of
the United Arab Emirates.
Yes, here in Bahrain they are PAL, but I'm an American, born and bred, and
I'm only living here for a few years, so it's a multisystem, so it can do
NTSC, PAL or any other major standard. They're PAL pretty much everywhere
>from the UK to China, then in Japan, it goes back to NTSC.
Thanks,
Tim D. Hotze
I came across your email address when I was trying to find some
information on pong. I was actually looking for what a current price
maybe if you wanted to sell an Atari Pong home game. If you know where
I may be able to find this informatin or you know it yourself, I would
be very appreciative if you could share it with me.
Thanks
Kristi
Hi,
I am a collector and classic enthusiast. I'm looking for copies of the
original operating manuals for the following computers:
Amiga 1000
Apple ][ plus
Apple //e
Apple //e Platinum
Commodore 64
Apple DuoDisk
Apple Disk II
I also need original boot and os disks for these computers. If you have
such materials, and they are in good-excellent condition, please email me
at:
mark(a)cyberlightstudios.com, and we can work out a price. I'd be very
anxious to obtain these documents, particularly the Apple specific manuals.
Thanks again,
Mark
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At 03:25 PM 11/5/97 -0500, SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
>some guy i bought a mac video card from said he had something called an
>apollo workstation. he said it was a 68020/68030 with a 19 inch monitor, can
>run *nix, and would only want ~$50 for it. anyone heard of this machine or
Apollo made workstations similar to (in the eyes of an HP3000 guy) Sun
workstations. They were bought by HP. They run X-windows, an adequate
terminal emulator, and Mosaic. (I used one briefly during a stint at HP.)
They might have Unix underneath, but I couldn't figure out how to do
anything except connect to the 3000 and run Mosaic.
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In a message dated 97-11-05 00:04:30 EST, you write:
<< Oh yeah???
Military electronics has ALWAYS been about ten years ahead of what we see.
That stuff is generally demilitarized (shredded) when it is taken out of
service. The really high end stuff - crypto and countermeasures - always
is destroyed beyond recognition. True, the computers in the F-16s and such
may be a few years behind, but then they do not need such power. Things
that need to do signal analysis on incoming radar pulses on the fly, or
decrypting very high speed bursts of data do.
>>
Are you saying that, 10 years ago, the military had machines that could carry
out calculations with the speed of a Pentium II -300? (I hesitate to mention
the Alpha 5-433, because I think the alpha project was originally funded by
the military)
<Seeing how it's advertised as a 16 Meg module, it probably isn't
<a particularly pretty example of core. In my opinion, the older
<core styles - where the individual beads and wires are actually
I'd be surprized, as that is huge for a core system. It's far to big for
one plane. My guess is it's a 16k. Way back however EMC did corestore
systems of disk sizes for rapid store/recall to replace things like swapping
drums and rotating media systems.
It would be fun to get something like that and have it working!
Allison
> > I have been told that the CDC Cyber 70/170-series used a 60-bit wordlength.
>
> Well, I am currently in a room full of 64 bitters (Alphas). Cray machines
> as well...
>
> Many (all?) CDC machines are 60 bit machines.
I have at home a memory bank from a CDC Cyber two-hundred-and-something
(?) which is 18 bits wide. I had always assumed that this was 16 bits
plus two parity but it doesn't fit into 60 bits either way. (Memory
bank is huge quantities of 40ns and 45ns 64k x 1 static RAMs surface
mounted on both sides of numerous daughter boards. Each daughter board
is 64k x 18 and they stack four deep all over the "mother board" of the
bank.) I always meant to use this in something, but somehow I never got
around to it...
Philip.
Strange word sizes were used in very early machines and special purpose
machines, especially early military computers. If you look hard enough
you can probably find any size, especially in the range 8-40. Here are
some examples off the top of my head, but I probably have some of them
wrong:
> 4 (Intel 4004, etc)
> 8 (Far too many to list)
> 12 (PDP8, PDP12, etc)
> 16 (Again far too many to list)
> 18 (PDP1, etc)
19 Bendix G15, depending how you count
> 20 (PERQ 1, PERQ 2)
22 Packard Bell 250, depending how you count (otherwise 23-24)
> 24 (PERQ 4) <- Also Datacraft/Harris
> 32 (Yep, a lot of those)
> 36 (PDP10, etc) <- including IBM 701 series, Univac 1100 series
40 IAS, SWAC <- Here's the justification for the joke!
48 Burroughs 5500 etc.
60 CDC 6600, Cyber series
64, 128 IBM Stretch
You get even more if you include decimal machines. (Is it fair to list
the 4004 above?)
> -tony
Paul
Hello. My computer was broken, and I have the day off, so I spent it mostly
calling company after company after company about classic computers. I've
found the following: A Sharp "M-80" (Or some letter -80) with a built in
display. Probably has an 8088 processor. Nothing except tape drive.
Requested price: about $80 USD (In the local currency, so it's a little
off)
And also a Olvetti Pr-something, like Prosignia, or Pro something PC-1.
Monitior looks like it's a 13 inch or so mono. Keyboard and CPU built in,
with two 3.5" FDDs. I'm not sure if they're DS DD or DS HD. Does anyone
have info on these? How much do you think that they'd go for?
Thanks,
Tim D. Hotze
