CC to CLASSICCMP and port-vax(a)netbsd.org,
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SHIPPING NOT AVAILABLE FOR THIS ITEM -- LOCAL PICKUP ONLY!
Hi, gang,
I have for sale, for LOCAL PICKUP ONLY (Shipping is NOT AVAILABLE due to size and weight) in the Kent, WA area (southeast of Seattle), a MicroVAX 3 (KA650 CPU) system in the 'End table' cabinet (BA123). It was, as of seven months or so ago, fully functional on an older version of NetBSD (1.4, I think). It has been in protected storage since that time, and includes the following components:
KA650 CPU
32MB RAM
DELQA Ethernet
Sigma RQD11S Dual-Function SCSI disk/tape drive adapter
DHV11 eight-port serial MUX
THREE 760MB Micropolis SCSI drives (two active/installed, one loose in its bag as a spare).
The only thing you might need to replace is the memory battery. I will include as much in the way of hardware manuals as I can find (definitely the Sigma card's manual), and I'll also throw in a spare DHV11 and a couple of other boards (pretty sure I've got a Pertec tape controller I can get rid of).
Asking: $125.00 or best offer for the whole package. Again -- NO SHIPPING AVAILABLE. Sorry, but it's just too big and bulky, and I will not break up a working system.
NO DEALERS! I want this system to go to a good home with a "classic" computer collector, not see it scrapped out.
Thanks for reading.
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Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
ARS KC7GR (Formerly WD6EOS) since 12-77 -- kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates that it would be superior
to what I have now..." (Taki Kogoma, aka Gym Z. Quirk)
"Clint Wolff (VAX collector)" <vaxman(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
> Also, one 8bit full length ISA ethernet board. Unknown mfg, PN
> NI-5010-02.
The name "Interlan" comes to mind.
-Frank McConnell
I'm trying to interface a DEC CR11 (a.k.a. Documation M200) card reader to
an Apple ][.
I need the pinouts of the card reader interface. Does anyone have this
information? Is the service manual available online (in some nook I
haven't looked into yet)?
Thanks!
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@idcomm.com]
Knowing this it probably more rhetorical:
> I haven't looked at the insides of the COCO2 I've got sitting
> here, but I
> don't see any place for a FDD or a HDD. Are there serial
Yep, that's a problem. Mine had a Floppy controller that plugged
into the cartridge slot. The tape setup wasn't bad either, for the
time.
> ports anywhere that
Yeah, I'm certain there was a serial port, but I can't tell you
about it. It's been a while.
> I can use? How much R/W memory does it have? How do you
R/W memory? It has up to 64k of RAM if that's what you mean. If
it were a CoCo 3, it would have up to 512.
> expand it to do
> something useful?
It's not bad with _only_ the computer, and a disk setup.
> ... see what I mean? You have to do so much to the thing
> that RS sells you
> that it takes up a whole tabletop just to get to what's in
> the PC's box, and
You didn't mention that the PSUs were external on many peripherals
too ;)
> if you compare the price of a typical PC Clone available the
> same year the
> COCO2 was offered, how do they compare in price, avaialble
> software base, etc?
There's lots of software for CoCo, but I don't have numbers.
> With the COCO, you're better off starting from a wirewrap
> panel and a bucket
I think that may be an exaggeration. :)
> of parts, since the video on the COCO is not "up to snuff,"
> i.e. 80x24
> characters-capable. It uses that ridiculous 6847, IIRC, and
Actually, there are applications that do 80x24 in some high-res
video mode, for word processing and the like. I ran at least one
on my CoCo1 with 64k of RAM.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
Just pinging out there... I was wondering if anyone had a Televideo TS 806
or TS 816 they would be willing to give to a 'good home'. I have a bit of
an attachment/longing for one, it was that computer at my Dad's office
(he's an Optometrist) that I never got to play with until it broke and
(since I was rather young at the time) I took it apart. The pieces have
since been tossed by my parents in the interest of 'cleaning up'.
I'm just curious if there's any still out there right now - I'd be
interested in just seeing pictures even... a nonworking or working system
would be pretty cool.
-- Pat
Hi all,
I'm looking at selling my IBM 5110 with the 8" disk drive and printer most
of the documentation and a box of floppies.
What should be the asking price?
Anyone interested?
Unit is in Twin cities Minnesota.
THanks
Francois
> > When you opened the box with your COCO, what useful work would it do with the
> > $399 you had just spent? Could you write a letter? Could you write and
> > compile a Fortran program?
>
> A REAL programmer can write a FORTRAN program in ANY language.
> There was a fairly good (even though Microsoft) BASIC interpreter in ROM.
> A REAL programmer could write a FORTRAN program with it.
Harrumph!
My Data Structures prof lamented the fact (by his observation)
that most people write Pascal in its FORTRAN subset...
My first computer language was ALFIE,
Algebraic Language For Interactive Environments
on the CDC 6500 at Purdue. It was a superset of BASIC that
most notably inluded FORTRAN FORMATted I/O (READ & WRITE
when issued with a line number reference were FORTRAN
style, the line number cntaining a FORMAT statement).
Good Morning! <ding><ding> This is ALFIE! <ding><ding>
<ding> Teletype ASR33 bell.
-dq
>From: Arlen Michaels <arlen.michaels(a)sympatico.ca>
>Subject: Re: Anyone need 2112 RAMs
<snip>
> 5 for a dime? Why didn't they just hand them out for free to anyone who
>wanted them? Or bag them as kitty litter?
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Well, they'd mispriced them, and they even insisted on issuing one of their large
expensive invoices; no tax either :)
So, does anyone know if these chips fit anything? Murphy dictates that as soon
as they disappear, someone will need some.
And Arlen: What happened to you last November? I thought you were going to
take a Cromemco or two off my hands? Looks like a new address there, talk to
me off-list if ya like.
mike
Still cleaning up, still finding things. I just put a three-volume set of DEC service manuals up for auction for the LSI-11 series. Here's the link if anyone's interested.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2022286247
Opening bid is $20 for the set.
Thanks much.
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Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
ARS KC7GR (Formerly WD6EOS) since 12-77 -- kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates that it would be superior
to what I have now..." (Taki Kogoma, aka Gym Z. Quirk)
