What else does this apply to? I believe I have a near complete set of the CLOAD-80 cassette magazine for the TRS-80, and a few issues of at least one wanna-be imitation. Were there floppy disk "magazines" for first gen IBM-PC?
I have years of saved logs from connecting to ward and randy's CBBS as well as several TRS-80 BBSes. Printed and on 5.25" floppies. I was trying to recover the floppies, but got distracted, and stopped working on that. (aside: I should think 100% accurate OCR should be possible for dot matrix printouts, but have never seen such a program) the IEEE had a (short lived?) professional journal on personal computers, I think, and these would have been available on paper or microfiche as they were printed. Hardware: so I should not be sending my 8086, 80286 and 80386 computers to be recycled? Other things I've never noticed on ebay might be super valuable rather than worthless? like a big board (Z-80 CP/M system) an early Canon inkjet printer where you could swap out the print head for a scanner head? (I bought the scanner head after I had stopped using the printer, and bought a real scanner before getting around to installing the replaceable one) I've never seen networking stuff being sold (as retro), only cisco 2500 and newer for people going for certifications, am I just looking in the wrong places? I have four AGS-1 routers (before variable submitting) though IIRC I figured out 3 were plus and one not, and various software levels, I bought them hoping to mix and match for a super system, but some boards did not get recognized in other systems). And a few IBM and other routers from that vintage. such as 10 megabit fiber, FDDI, CDDI, token ring. aside: I've seen references to ONE megabit unshield twisted pair (I assume the old 4 prong phone cords), does ANY museum have that, working or not? --Carey
