Computer garage sale Sat 17, So Cal
Sat 17th of March, in Orange CA my amazingly full garage of computer and
related stuff will be open and on sale for the first time since last summer
(next one is July). I live about 10 miles east of Disneyland, in the
foothills of Orange, CA. Take the 22 east til it ends, and that becomes the
55 freeway Chapman exit. Go east on Chapman a couple miles, and Chapman
will bend to the left and go up a hill. Half way up turn right on Canyon
View, then left on Brynhurst into the Chapman Townhomes. A short driveway,
then left on the unmarked Stonebrook, a few houses then the road turns
right and becomes Cadbury. I am at the end in the cul de sac 6036 Cadbury.
About a third of the whole complex is planning on opening for sale about 7
am (I will NOT be ready that early, but feel free to stop and watch me
work) so there will be more than just all my computer stuff.
This is a link to yahoo maps for me.
<http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&ad…
036+Cadbury&csz=92869&country=us&Get%A0Map=Get+Map>
Questions until the portable phone runs out of juice at (714) 771-7504
What the heck is in this garage to get me to drive all the way to Orange?
Lots, mostly lots.
AT&T old desktops, likely 386
Compaq and Dell up to about a P120, lots of great 486 boxes for Linux
routers etc.
a dozen IBM PS2 9595 servers, multiSCSI drive units, various cards
Apple IIe, IIc, IIc+ and IIgs computers, joysticks, cables, etc.
At least 2 dozen monitors, MOSTLY older, but great for older macs or
workstations.
Networking stuff, loads of 10bt cables, hubs, nics (nubus, isa, PCI, EISA,
MCA).
Rack mount PC chassis, keyboards, mice, and things.
Software, a BIG box of $1 CDs, and many many boxes of weird software $1
Close to 2,000 different computer cables, Apple, PC, SCSI, serial, printer,
starting at $1
50 macintosh computers, from plus to PPC, lots of odd bits and one of a
kind items.
Printers, and ribbons, and various printer parts, imagewriters,
Laserwriters, stylewriters, old dot matrix.
C64, Atari, just cause I didn't mention it, that doesn't mean I don't have
a pile of it. ;)
Around noon things will wind down, but last year it took me 4 hours to put
stuff away, so I will be "around" much longer.
> Organization: IRIT, Toulouse, France
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org, rhblake(a)bigfoot.com, elvey(a)hal.com,
> ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com, Technoid(a)cheta.net
> Subject: Re: Dallas module battery replacement...
> Reply-to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
>
> Hi all!
>
> Just curious, but are are the prices of these Sun NVRAM timer chips
> these days?
Didn't notice they went up. I just bought some last year. Can't help
you with a French connection, but I get mine from Mouser (www.mouser.com).
I have, in an emergency, removed the old battery and added my own. All you
have to is cut through the epoxy on the ends where the battery leads go down
to the chip, not through the top or sides. I should take a picture and post
the URL to the list, but I soldered a 9V battery clip to the exposed ends of
the battery leads (which I severed from the top), superglued the wire to
the case as a strain relief, then soldered a motherboard Lithium cell to the
top of a former 9V battery and put it in a baggie to prevent it from shorting
out on the motherboard or RFI shield in the case. Worked great, but for all
the hassle, I'd rather pay a few bucks for a new NVRAM assembly.
> Are the Dallas chips identical to the ST ones as concerns a Sun?
I have no idea. There are some equivalents in the NVRAM FAQ.
-ethan
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You know the P70 hardware manual is online at IBM at
http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/cdt/hmm.html and the book is in HTML Bookmanager
format or downloadable PDF format as the Portabel Systems HMM Volume I. Very
handy and yes the P70 is a neat little unit. My wife starting tinkering on
mine and now I can't get it away from her, especially after the 486 upgrade
and Win95 OSR2 on a 160mb drive and 16mb ram. I just added an Etherlink MC
card and now the same woman that says she doesn't have need for a network is
tied to it and wreaking havoc!
Russ, have been unable to find a file that meets your description. Is
it perhaps that 16mb pdf that is first on that page and is about
PC300/PC700?
- don
Have an Eagle Technologies NPE400 single place print server that I have no
software for, just the adapter and server. It's a cigarette pack sized box
that hooks onto the parallel port and has a BNC and RJ45 on back. If anyone
has a source it would be appreciated as I plan on taking this donated unit
and using it for my daughter's school as a donation of equipment and time to
free up a machine they need that presently gets tied up with print jobs.
From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc(a)conman.org>
> Ah, that's what I get for not double checking the reference material.
In
>looking over it, it is indeed 10 bits for cylinder and six bits for
sector
>number.
;) you forgot the 4bits for head select.
Allison
Some more bits added to the 6000 website at
http://www.stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au/vax
*Added the first pages of a photo tour of a 6000-430, (only the front
views so far - back to follow)
*The Txxxx adapter list is now somewhat more complete, the formatting is
not fabulous, I will compile it into a
proper table when I get time. For some reason, my first search for this
on the compaq site came up empty. Same search,
3 hours later, and I went straight to exactly what I wanted. Go figure.
*Minor changes and additions to the FAQ.
I will add some line drawings here and there as I get time, for the
owners manual deprived.
cheers
Geoff Roberts
Computer Systems Manager
Saint Mark's College
Port Pirie,
South Australia
geoffrob at stmarks dot pp dot catholic dot edu dot au
ICQ: 1970476
I know some of you are IBM ironheads. I've got three packages of 10-packs of
3480 tape carts. Anyone interested in these, before they go out in the trash
next week?
My wife probably believes that I might be able to fill a container with all
of my stuff, of course she hasn't been up in the garage attic.
My local computer surplus sends stuff to China, the stuff must be salvage, I
have seen then take a hammer to a HP 4si case so that it was salvage. The
last stuff in the container gets inspected by the customs staff in LA. I
have seen a HP MO jukebox in the same container. They get about $5000 for
an entire container. I asked about buying a container for a month and
sorting the stuff and then giving it back to them for a total of $200 for
the small amount of stuff I took out. No go. Lots of keyboards, CGA
monitors, dot-matrix printers, IBM mainframe terminals in a load. Most of
the stuff this spam asked for wouldn't be available a any surplus place I've
seen. The local schools get 200 MHz Pentiums and any disks over 1 GB.
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
Hello,
as the subject says, what do you people use for tape cleaning ?
I have a few drives that desperately need cleaning, a HP 9144 and a
HP 9145 (the 9145 is smart enough the blink the "CLEAN" (or something)
led on power-up). The not-so-desperate cases are a QIC-24, QIC-150,
HP 7979A and a HP 7974.
The few docs that I have seem to recommend some sort of Freon based
substance but for some weird reason I can't find it in the stores:)
So, now my plan is to use isoprophyl alcohol but I'd like to be sure
before I do any damage.
Thanks in advance,
--
jht
