Sure, you could kludge something together, but I have no interest in doing
so... Since I truly do intend to have a museum at some point, I wouldn't
consider a kludged-together Terak to be something of museum quality.. Hell,
if I just wanted it to work, I'd try to find out how standard the qbus
backplane in it is, and from there you could perhaps make it into a normal
11/23, which would be useful since it has an 8" floppy. Thanks for the
advice on the monitor and keyboard though, maybe it will help someone with
different goals : )
Will J
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Interesting question though -- "should the tax people visit my site they
might think I'm making a living from buying and selling machines" -- what
if the "site" in question is a web site? Can the revenooers use what they
see on a web site against the owner? :-)
-- Tony
At 10:45 AM 1/29/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> > On a different tack, what's the group's thoughts about taxes etc? Should
>the
> > tax people visit my site they might think I'm making a living from buying
> > and selling machines and may want a little extra cash out of me despite
>the
> > fact I can probably prove it's impossible to make real money out of this
>AND
> > have a full time job and it really is a hobby....
>
>There is a long-established tradition here in America wherein we
>take great difference with a revenuer's (taxman's) attempt to
>enter the premises. The tradition involves guns and dead taxmen.
>
>All kidding aside, the 4th amendment to our Constitution elucidates
>our intrinsic right to be safe and secure in our persons and property
>from unwarranted intrusion. In other words, a U.S. citizen is never
>required to admit a government agent unless the agent has a warrant,
>and while it may happen from time to time, I don't think that revenue
>agents typically ask for and receive warrants to enter a private residence.
>
>There are, however, some horror stories I could tell involving the
>U.S. Marshalls' Service who are able to perform warrantless searches,
>but they're looking for pirated software, not old iron.
>
>Regards,
>-dq
> On a different tack, what's the group's thoughts about taxes etc? Should
the
> tax people visit my site they might think I'm making a living from buying
> and selling machines and may want a little extra cash out of me despite
the
> fact I can probably prove it's impossible to make real money out of this
AND
> have a full time job and it really is a hobby....
There is a long-established tradition here in America wherein we
take great difference with a revenuer's (taxman's) attempt to
enter the premises. The tradition involves guns and dead taxmen.
All kidding aside, the 4th amendment to our Constitution elucidates
our intrinsic right to be safe and secure in our persons and property
>from unwarranted intrusion. In other words, a U.S. citizen is never
required to admit a government agent unless the agent has a warrant,
and while it may happen from time to time, I don't think that revenue
agents typically ask for and receive warrants to enter a private residence.
There are, however, some horror stories I could tell involving the
U.S. Marshalls' Service who are able to perform warrantless searches,
but they're looking for pirated software, not old iron.
Regards,
-dq
I have a couple DEC Maxines (5000/33's) and I am desperately trying to
install a virgin Ultrix 4.2 on them without any luck. Someone please help!
I have the CD media for Ultrix 4.2 using a scsi drive that works to install
on old Sparcstations so I am assuming it handles 512 sectoring.
The cdrom drive works fine. The Ultrix 4.2 cd looks fine (an original).
If you watch the boot messages on the machine it finds the cdrom drive on
rz6, so....
I rebooted and at the prom, I try
boot 3/rz6
and then
boot 3/rz6/vmunix
both without luck.. After each command the response is identical. The
cdrom spins up for a minute and then stops. No further prompts, action,
etc..
Anyone have any suggestions?
-Linc
I know that this is a shameless plug, but here are a few machines I'm
looking for:
Dynalogic Hyperion
Epson QX-10
Otrona Attache
Acorn A4 (w/ American voltage power supply)
Commodore Hyperion (Good luck, I know!)
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David Vohs, Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian.
Home page: http://www.geocities.com/netsurfer_x1/
Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, MPS-801.
"Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A, TI Speech Synthesizer.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3, Disto 512K RAM board.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
"Butterfly": Tandy Model 200, PDD, CCR-82
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> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:07:39 +0000 (GMT)
> From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
> Subject: Re: Machines I'm looking for...
>
> Perhaps somebody could expain the aims of this hobby of ours.
> Is it to :
>
> Obtain as many machines as possible without caring what they are
Nope.
> Obtain as many of particular types of 'interesting' (to you) machines
Yup.
> Getting (again) the machine that you 'used as a kid' and
> enjoying those ancinet games again (say)
Not really, since I was doing that anyway with emulators.
> Getting machines that you dreamed of owning many years ago and could
> never aford back then
Definitely.
> Getting machines that have particular hardware (or software) features
> that you find interesting, whether or not you've ever heard of the
> machine before
Not originally, but that's happened over time once I've discovered that I
*could*. I'm supposed to be sticking to home machines but I'm deviating from
that path I think.
> Preserving a piece of computer history
100%
For me, at the end of the day cost isn't as important as saving a machine
>from whatever fate will befall it. Of course, I want that boxed Jupiter Ace
or Lisa 1 as cheaply as possible, but if I have the funds and something like
that becomes available then I'll buy it anyway. While its fab to have a
collection like this I still want to turn it into a proper museum and
educational facility once I get my head round the 'this might get stolen or
damaged and its the only one I've got' thoughts.
And find somewhere secure to put it all of course. There's bastards round
here who'll steal anything that isn't bolted down regardless of whether
there's anyone in the house because crims have more rights than victims, but
that's another story.
On a different tack, what's the group's thoughts about taxes etc? Should the
tax people visit my site they might think I'm making a living from buying
and selling machines and may want a little extra cash out of me despite the
fact I can probably prove it's impossible to make real money out of this AND
have a full time job and it really is a hobby....
--
Adrian Graham MCSE/ASE/MCP
C CAT Limited
Gubbins: http://www.ccat.co.uk (work)
<http://www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk> (home)
<http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk> (The Online Computer Museum)
0:OK, 0:1
If any of you are using HP plotters, I came into a large stash of the
long pens used on the Draftmaster 759x, Draftpro 757x, HP 758x and HP
7550 plotters. I've got sizes ranging from .25mm to .50mm and Black,
Blue and Green inks (Just a few Red...) Most are for paper or vellum
and are new in sealed (but well outdated) packages.
$.75 ea + actual postage.
Jim
Hello, all:
I know that I posted this once before, but I'll make the offer again. I
have a partially-working Datamaster for sale or trade. It consists of the
Datamaster unit, lots of spare parts (including power supply, keyboard, and
miscellaneous boards) and a few disks. There are no manuals or other
paperwork.
There's only one condition: pick-up only in northeastern Nassau County, New
York (Long Island). This is large and very heavy, so I'm not inclined to
ship it.
I also have a few random items available that are shippable: Two 3Com PCI
network cards (spares), a Zilog Z8 ICE/evaluation board, and NuBus graphics
card and TokenRing cards.
Anyone interested, contact me off list. Thanks.
Rich
ClubWin! Group 1
Collector of Classic Computers
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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