Well I couldn't get rid of too many of these whole and I need to move soon
so I'm parting them out. Should be some memory, power supplies, brackets,
drives, something worth it to somebody. Send me an email telling me what
you are looking for and what you'll pay. Not looking to make a killing here
just make it worth my time. PS: I don't think there are any very
interesting pds cards just standard video ones.
I've got four of these classic terminals, but no keyboards and no
mice. They are free for pickup in NW Chicago suburbs (60074.) They
are in fair to rough shape. I have not powered any of them on. I
need to reclaim the space they're taking up and would really rather
not see these classics scrapped.
Here's one in use with an AT&T 3B2 system:
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-- "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Alas my expeerience suggests the reverse. Back when computers were
>> expensive, and chips were expensive, the manufacutrers took the >>trouble
>> to put all sorts of protectinon in their machines to protect said
>> expensive decices in the event of a failure. Now they don't bother.
>
>I would suspect that a younger crop of engineers coming up might have >some bearing on this too. :-)
Actually, I would be more likely to suspect the current crop of
engineering *managers* as a more likely cause (both pointy-haired
and not). "My gawd, boy, those extra bits add $0.10 to our build
cost! Do we really need that for the product to meet spec?"
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I have an LMI Lambda in San Diego that is waiting for me to come get it.
The problem is that it's in a storage locker and the person holding it
needs to close out the locker due to costs. I will be going down to SD in
a few weeks for business but the LMI needs to be moved now.
Is there someone who can go get it and temporarily store it until I can
get down there? If not, it'll be lost.
If someone can assist, please contact me directly. If it won't be
feasible for me to retrieve it myself, I will want it to go to someone who
can take it in.
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There are two categories here. First is stuff free for the price of
shipping. Pick it up and it is 100% free.
I don't want to ship each document to a different address. Hopefully
someone wants it all.
TRS-80 micro computer technical reference handbook
(this is for the model I)
Expansion Interface Hardware manual
TRS-80 Technical Manual Troubleshooting (For Radio Shack Service Centers
Only)
TRS-80 Model III Service Manual
TRS-80 Model 4 Service Manual
TRS-80 Model 100 Technical Reference Manual
LDOS Quarterly, not complete, mostly copies, but not all, 81-84
Some floppy disk alignment programs and Dysan alignment disks
TRS-80 Assembly Language Programming (1st ed), Bill Barden
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The next category is free, but *must* be picked up at my house. If I
cared to spend the time to find a box and pack it properly, I'd put it
on ebay and get my $50 or whatever.
This is a TRS-80 4P in *great* shape. It has very little yellowing as
it has been in a leatherette carrying case for the past 20 years. I
recently took it apart and tweaked the trimmer cap so 80 column display
mode is solid again. Both drives work great, and I don't know of any
defects.
It comes with an original in the binder TRSDOS 6.0.2 manual, a Montezuma
Micro CP/M manual, and about 100 floppies. Not all the floppies are
usable on this system; some came from model I systems, or were
configured for double sided drives (this machine has only single sided
floppies, which was the norm for the 4P).
I hate to give it up, as I spent a couple years messing around one Model
IIIs in high school, so come and get it before I change my mind. :-)
The uIEC/SD I bought from Jim Brain was delivered Friday night (USPS
was actually unable to deliver for several days in our area). My
mail is currently going to a different location than we're living, so
I picked it up yesterday, and retrieved my customized C64 from
storage, and got everything plugged in last night (this was the first
time we'd been able to get our car out of the driveway in over two
weeks).
Once I figured out how to use it, all I can say it is seriously cool,
way better than my MMC-Replay for dealing with D64 images, and it was
a lot cheaper! I'm even able to use it with the MMC-Replay plugged
in so I have my Ethernet connection. With the MMC-Replay I was only
able to get one or two D64 images to work, with the uIEC most I've
tried have worked. I've been playing "Temple of Apshai" all day and
having a blast! :-)
Now to decide if I put it in some sort of case, or if I mount it
inside the C64 somehow.
Zane
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| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
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The SX-64 box has been claimed. This is the next one up. Same deal,
free for cost of shipping (I'll ship it in a larger box so the PO
doesn't mar up the fine Atari graphics) from 60074.
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> Roger Holmes wrote:
>
> A couple of [keypunch drums] have come up on eBay in the last five
> years and both went for silly money which to me means there are
> more keypunches than drums.
That's one interpretation, but it just considers the scarceness factor.
You also have to figure in the saneness factor. If you want a punched
card era memorabilis, a drum is a heck of a lot easier to ship, store
and display than a whole keypunch machine.
Nope, not "box" as in slang for "computer" or "machine." This is just
the cardboard box (well ok, also the Styrofoam inserts and a plastic
bag) that the SX-64 came in. No serious collector should be without
one! Apparently, I'm not as serious as I thought, because I've got
three SX-64s (each broken in some unique way) and I've decided the box
takes up too much space. None of them matched the serial # on the
box, anyway.
So if anyone wants it, it's free for the cost of shipping from 60074
(or if you're local, come pick it up.) Please give it a home. Even
though I've got to shrink my collection and reclaim storage space, I
still can't let something as simple as an old cardboard box go to the
landfill.
-j
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