I also went to TCF on Saturday.
I saw lots of Sparc Stations too. Didn't buy one. But,
maybe next year.
No TRS-80's that I saw (except for a Model 100 with a
broken spacebar), One Amiga 500 that I couldn't carry
home with all the stuff the seller wanted to sell with
it.
I did get a ROM 01 Apple ][gs with 2mb RAM, 3.5" FDD,
5.25" FDD, KB, Mouse, Joystick, Cables, PrintShop GS
for $7.00
I bought an unknown Newer Upgrade card for $15 and got
home to find it to be a G3 250/125. So that was a good
deal. I also got two others for $10.00 each that
turned out to be PowerComputing 604e 225/45 and a
200/50.
So the G3 went in my 8500 (Since it didn't work in my
PowerCenter 132) and the 225/45 went in the Power
Center.
Lots of other odds and ends there. But not too much of
a selection.
I saw one Vic-20, no Commodore 64's. Though there were
some carts for them around.
Hardly any video game consoles at all.
No Apple II's, other than a few gs'es.
No Next Stations.
The Flea was a little smaller than last year, but
there were definitely bargains to be found.
I also got a JEIDA Memory card (16mb) for my ThinkPad
510cs for $5.00. That was a nice find.
Also a Tandy JP-250 Printer (Canon BJ-10ex or similar
relabled) with an extra cart and two dead batteries I
tossed for $3.00. Printer works great if I use an IBM
Proprinter Driver or a Canon BJ-130e driver.
This is a great little printer that fits in my Laptop
bag, and is good for taking on trips or meetings along
with my ThinkPad 600e.
I also saw a few HP Omnibooks, the old ones with the
attached mouse that used a PCMCIA Hard Drive. I
thought about buying one. But I decided I didn't want
one that badly to take a chance on getting one I
couldn't fix easily or cheaply.
I didn't get a TRS-80 Model I or III or my holy
grail... An LNW-80.
But, I'll keep looking...
But definitely the show is moving away from classic
computers and becoming more and more PC/Mac. I think
it's just because the price of the booths in the flea
is just too high for the person looking to get rid of
stuff in their garage. I think it was on the order of
$100 with one ticket for admission.
I think it used to be $20 - $35 years ago. And they'd
have HUNDREDS of sellers in the flea. It looked like
less than 100 Vendors this time around. I didn't
count.
It was worth going to, and I'll go back next year...
Regards,
Al Hartman
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All,
Got this from the guy in Houston who supplied the VAX VLC machines.
Contact him (best) or me if you are interested.
>Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 23:33:16 -0500 (CDT)
>From: sandmann(a)clio.rice.edu (Charles Sandmann)
>Subject: More DEC Stuff Coming
...
>
>I was just notified today by the ChemE department head at Rice that it
>is time to clean out one of the labs. It has mostly PDP stuff, some
>VAX stuff, documentation, some media. KZ's going to make a rough list
>so we can estimate the volume. The VAX stuff has been used in the last
>year, but most of the PDP stuff has been off for 8 years or more, so
>may need some TLC when being checked out the first time (if you don't
>know about power supply caps, you probably shouldn't ask :-) I've made
>some promises for some of this stuff already - but if there is something
>you are dying for, it might be a good time to remind me. Between the
>Rice stash and the AspenTech stash, there should be lots of machines
>for everyone.
>
>If Intel IRMX (?) means anything to anyone, bug me. I think thats the
>system name - and they are rare (but not DEC stuff ...)
>
>I think we will keep the extra RS6000/AIX IBM systems for spare parts
>for clio - but you never know...
>
>I know there are some VT103s (VT100 systems with built in dual TU58s
>and QBUS backplanes) - lots of QBUS cards, an 11/23+ rack mount system,
>BA123 based MicroVAX II with ESDI and RQDX3/RD54 disks. I think the
>11/23+ has an RQDX1 with RD51 drive (don't cringe!), dual RX02s
>(I have a requirement to be able to read some media on these first!)
>
>There is a requirement to take lots of pictures for our scrapbook :-)
Anybody have a cheap 390682-01 amiga to vga adapter or know where I can get
one?
I am trying to use a NEC 3DS monitor on my Amiga A1200 to free up my 1084
monitor for my A500 and C128. I tried using a custom cable from IEC but it
doesnt sync all the time (its just a wire thru while the silver amiga part has
a buffer chip inside).
Hello All - bah, was just playing with my QIC drive, a WangTek
5150ES (Using dos tar!) and halfway thru the first listing
tape stops. Turns out the rubber what drives the tape has gotten
very soft. Anybody have a box full of cheap replacements?
(pic here: http://mail.schillernet.us/wangtek/ ). I'd like to
keep it working, but paying for depot service ( like
http://www.eds-sales.com/EDS-QICPG.htm ) on a 150Mb drive
is, uh, a questionable investment.
--Chuck
Hi Joe,
I had a good look at the card last night - I'm 9(.9% certain that it is an
AD card.
The rear panel connector is marked MITSUMI CINCH - M57. It has an onbaord
analog to digital converted type AD578ZLN - looks as though it is 12 bit 333
kHz sampling rate from the data sheet.
There are two three way jumpers and a single 8-way DIP rocker switch
assembly. I've no idea how to set it up....
Cheers
Peter
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Had anyone run into this site before? I just came across it, and there's
lots of VERY kewl HP1000 stuff listed there on a CD they put out. I cant
seem to figure out from the site how you get the CD, but they say it's free
(at least the components). Some of the entries in the library look very
interesting! Looks like they have C compilers, 8080 assemblers, etc.
http://www.interex.org/tech/csl/RTE/ for an overview... click on the "CSL"
link
Jay West
I just came from the Trenton Computer Fest... picked myself up a
SparcStation 4. I probably over paid at $20 for the CPU with Solaris
preloaded, a keyboard and cable, and a mouse and pad.... but since I
already owned a monitor, it seemed like a fair price to have another toy
to play with (really the fact that I have a 20 inch monitor for one
already was the only reason I bought it. I see that monitor just about
every day at work and I've been itching to get a computer to use with it,
just to see what a SparcStation is like).
So now my question is... anyone have any link recommendations of where to
go to learn about these things? I'm about to do some googling, but I'm
sure some of you already know good sites to visit.
Other than that, I didn't buy anything of great interest. Just a few odds
and ends of parts, like some extra mac drive sleds (25 cents each). I
would have bought more stuff if I had brought a cart or something with
me, but I just didn't feel like carrying everything. Next year my brother
and I will be better prepared. We plan to bring a folding luggage cart
each... THEN we will buy more toys.
-chris
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"Peter Brown" <peterbrown10(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> It looks as though the general form of the commands is very similar to CS80
> format but the commands themselves are different - I wonder why HP did
> this?
Amigo was the project name for the computer sold as the HP 300 (not
9000 Series 300). I believe it was the first cut at designing a
general protocol for communicating with storage (and maybe other)
devices over HP-IB, and I think the name got stuck on the protocol
as well.
CS/80 came later, and I think it was informed somewhat by lessons
learned from the HP 300 experience.
And I think SS/80 was a sort of subset of CS/80 for lower-end storage
devices.
There was another protocol, CIPER, that was used for communicating
with printers over HP-IB. At least that's what I remember from working
on HP3000s in the 1980s.
-Frank McConnell
