>On a similar note, Anyone else notice that Messrs. Redford, Poitier, et
>al
>were using an Atari 830 300bps Acoustic Coupler for their super-duper,
>high-tech, bounce-around-the-world phone call to James Earl Jones?
While we're playing this, may I point out that in the control room of the
Red Dwarf is, in at least one episode, an original C64? I thought that,
being a BBC production, they should have at least use the BBC Micro. *grin*
Just think, one day some of our old computers will be used to control
starships a mile long.
Adam.
Hello again!
Some time ago I reported on an attic full of Sord computers that only
waited for someone to come along and grab them. I have now looked over
most of the attic (not all, mind you) and catalogued what I found. It is
an interesting list of 40 computers of 17 different types. Mostly Sord,
but also some PC compatibles. There is at least one Sord M680UX mini,
probably one or two more.
Sam and Kevan have already announced that they want several systems, so
there will be shipments going both to the US and the UK. The attic in
question is in Gothenburg, Sweden, but the more people join in, the
cheaper it will be. If you want a list of available stuff (also some
printers and a lot of manuals and software) let me know and I will send it
to you.
Next, I will try to determine what shipping would approximately cost.
/F
>> I'm starting to sort through the misc. parts and accessories that I've
>> collected over the years and am wondering if certain things are really
>> worth keeping, such as:
>>
>> 1200 baud modems (Hayes external, Racal Vadic VA212LC)
>> CGA cards
>> Hercules and MDA mono cards
>> Generic XT floppy controllers
To put in my 2 cents' worth...
Up until last year, I sold XT's pretty regularly. This year, I sold two. I
*do* still see some acquired out there (last Sunday, I set up a PC for a
friend and her kids...she bought it for $9 at an auction) and many of my
customers still have the older stuff (good grief -- we still have a couple
Epson QX-10's around, in this hick town!)
Motherboards are gonna start going rapidly pretty soon, and
monitors...nobody makes CGA anymore that I know of...what user (versus
collector) is gonna replace a CGA with VGA on an XT? He'll junk the whole
thing, and buy a Packard Bell at Wal-Mart (and use it to play Solitaire.)
Worth keeping? I think so. Boards don't take up a whole lot of space, and
you're going to make a collector *very* happy some day. (I'd take your
boards, except that I've already got plenty.) But, it'll be a long time
before you sell them!
At 12:22 AM 9/24/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I dunno about Compaqs, but if it takes standard 2.5" hard drives, Fry's and
Whups... You'd think I was on AOL... I forgot to change the TO: address.
Sorry!
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At 02:09 PM 9/23/97 -0500, you wrote:
>First, why use a 300 baud acoustic coupler (which strangely seems to
>operate at 300, 1200, 2400, 9600, 19200 and 38400 during different
>scenes) when you've got a perfectly good 1200 baud direct connect sitting
>on the monitor?
On a similar note, Anyone else notice that Messrs. Redford, Poitier, et al
were using an Atari 830 300bps Acoustic Coupler for their super-duper,
high-tech, bounce-around-the-world phone call to James Earl Jones?
And in True Stories, the talking heads guy (whose name I can't remember this
late at night) ran into the nerd from Varicor in the mall as he was coming
out of a store loaded down with 8-bit atari stuff.
And in Terminator 2, the scientist is working at his desk full of Atari
16-bit stuff (including at least a TT) when the kid's mom tries to blow him
away. When he does finally bite the big one, it's in a room full of old HP
7925 & 7933 disk drives -- Could it be coincidence that just before T2 came
out, HP was having a big promo to turn those in as trade-ins on newer
drives? I don't think so!
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sinasohn(a)crl.com that none but madmen know."
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San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/
On Tuesday, September 23, 1997 8:02 PM, Kip Crosby [SMTP:engine@chac.org] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm thoroughly enjoying being here and I just wanted to remind everybody
> that our history page, http://www.chac.org/chhistpg.html , is perennially
> in need of new links. As an example, we haven't found a single site yet
> that's devoted to classic laptops.
>
> I'd also appreciate any suggestion of a good win32 link-checking bot
> because this page has gotten far, far too voluminous to check by hand.
>
> Finally, thanks for all the Apple ][ material -- I'm still sifting through it.
Hi,
I have a small Home-Computer-Museum here in Germany you might want to link:
http://192.102.161.122/~walgen/index.html
At 19:12 9/23/97 +0000, Ken Harbit wrote:
>Does anyone know if the Historical Computer Society is still going?
>If it is, how can I get in touch with them?
Their address is 2962 Park Street, #1, Jacksonville FL 32205.
historical(a)aol.com was down for a while but I think it works again now.
__________________________________________
Kip Crosby engine(a)chac.org
http://www.chac.org/index.html
Computer History Association of California
<WOPR downloaded a Java aplet into his computer that the web browser
<continued to execute! C'mon, that one's easy!
Actually that was done back then. It was called callback security. you
would call in and give account and password if valid the machine would login
then log out and then call back to a prearranged number and you would log in
again. I used that for my vax to take advantage of the company phone lines
being cheaper out going to me that my calling them.
<> In the book, when David walks in while Jim Sting is underneath his desk,
<> he says "Hey Captain Crunch, I'm from Ma Bell and Boy is she pissed!"
<
<Nobody would've understood that reference. Nobody would today either.
As a former blue boxer and phone hack the pay phone in the dorm had a
diode hack so it didn't keep change. My trick on that was to hide the
diode in the company distribution box.
FYI: I was uing a cosmac elf to do the blue box in the late '70s by
spinning loops to make the tones and memory dial.
Allison
At 02:58 PM 9/22/97 -0700, you wrote:
>drive. If anyone knows where to get a cheap hard drive
>for a Compaq Contura 430 please let me know ;).
I dunno about Compaqs, but if it takes standard 2.5" hard drives, Fry's and
NCA (Silicon Valley, but possibly elsewhere) had been selling 500mb 2.5's
for under $100. I picked up a 2GB 2.5'er on AuctionWeb for $235 with
shipping (Seagate drive).
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San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/
Sam I've been trying to send message to you for over a week. I get yours but
can't reply. Here is a sample of what I get.
Still interested in helping and chatting about promotion. Hey you should do
a post-festival review on the web site and tell people you plan to do this
so they'll plan to return to the site after the event.
The original message was received at Tue, 23 Sep 1997 07:10:01 -0400 (EDT)
>from p22a.lithium.sentex.ca [207.245.212.183]
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From: ccm(a)sentex.net (COMMPUTERSEUM/Kevin Stumpf)
Subject: Re: Yo!
Glad to hear from you too. I've been trying to contact you ever since you
asked for a informal poll about attendance figures. Your mail keeps bouncing
back...and then I'm having difficulty getting online now that school is
back...the number is incessantly BUSY. I was gonna pass my messages on to
you via the LIST, but couldn't even get online!
So I haven't even read this message, but in 9 hours I will respond - got to
go to work now.
The original message was received at Fri, 19 Sep 1997 07:06:56 -0400 (EDT)
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From: ccm(a)sentex.net (COMMPUTERSEUM/Kevin Stumpf)
Subject: Re: update, poll & returned mail.
I'm am experiencing difficulty getting through to you. Still doing my part
and will chat soon.
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 19:33:41 -0400 (EDT)
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From: ccm(a)sentex.net (COMMPUTERSEUM/Kevin Stumpf)
Subject: VCF Poll
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>To: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)crl.com>
>From: ccm(a)sentex.net (COMMPUTERSEUM/Kevin Stumpf)
>Subject: Re: VCF Update
>
>About the informal poll...hope for the best and expect the worst...jah, jah,
>but seriously folks you will probably not have enough attendance to break
>even. Then again I'm way off in my marketing suggestions, i.e. I recommended
>Computerworld and WSJ, but your market are the BBS'ers and a very local,
>personal clientele and that's precisely who you are approaching. Right on dude.
>
>There's my 2 cents.
>
>Kevin
>
>
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