Thanks! I did try that but haven't heard back and don't want to pester him.
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From: Will Cooke via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2024 1:35 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Cc: wrco...@wrcooke.net
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Schematic or PCB layout
Just a 'survey' sort of question - how much value do you guys put in vintage
copies of old newsletters, magazines, etc. I'm talking mid-1970s, like
People's Computer Company, etc. Someone has been selling them one at a time
on ebay and they routinely go for $125+ each! Was PCC fairly low
circula
The Great Vintage Computing Heist???
And yes on the time it takes. There is a guy on ebay called scifiman. He has
been unloading an absolutely massive vintage computer collection, especially
rare commodores, for like 6 or 7 years now. He is being kind of firm on a lot
of his prices though.
I think many donors equated 'museum' with 'forever'. I seem to recall some
back and forths between a few of them on a forum somewhere when LCM first
closed, and they seemed to be under the impression LCM would be perpetual,
especially given who was behind it.
It's too bad they could have sold or
Just reaching out to anyone who has exhibited at a vintage computing
festival before. After years of only being able to watch others attend the
ones that happen in the US, we are finally getting one in BC here. Super
excited. I was invited both to speak and to exhibit, and they even got me
two t
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From: Sellam Abraham via cctalk
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2023 3:07 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Cc: Sellam Abraham
Subject: [cctalk] Re: PDP-8/L $15,000
On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 2:24 PM Brad H via cctalk
wrote:
>> Sometimes. But
Sometimes. But a lot of times it's just simply trying to get as much as
possible, which I guess is rational economic behavior. And the fault for the
high prices is us collectors - ye who bid thousands for old Apple IIs or $3500
for a Microswitch keyboard.
I've been hunting for a Sanyo MBC-1
Agreed. I wonder though if Apple eventually founders (always possible - Kodak
did), if Jobs/Apple will still have quite the same appeal and collector's halo
effect on their oldest products.
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Sent: Saturday, August 5, 2023 2:12 PM
To:
Do you have an emotional attachment to it? I just saw one sell on ebay
yesterday for $6100. An e-recycler will have a nice payday on your Altair.
I'm not too keen on emulation. Because I never got to experience the earlier
machines in person (too young), emulation doesn't cut it for me. My
I have 3 of the 4 pieces of Modular Advanced Design's MAD-1 and every now
and again I like to reach out and see if anyone might have the last missing
piece I need. The MAD-1 is sort of like the evil twin of the Mindset..
although nowhere near the graphics prowess. Unfortunately like the Mindset
t
letters.
> Pure luxury.
> Doug
>
> On 7/4/2023 6:57 PM, Brad H via cctalk wrote:
>> Hi there - not sure how much overlap there is with vcfed's forum, but
>> thought I would reach out here in case. I have a terminal from 1974
>> (based on date codes I've fo
ge-
From: Brent Hilpert via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2023 9:11 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Cc: Brent Hilpert
Subject: [cctalk] Re: 1974 No Name Terminal
On 2023-Jul-05, at 8:25 AM, Brad H via cctalk wrote:
> Seems to be RS-232 compatible, which in m
compatible terminal?
Sellam
On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 10:27 PM Brad H via cctalk
wrote:
> Hi there - not sure how much overlap there is with vcfed's forum, but
> thought I would reach out here in case. I have a terminal from 1974
> (based on date codes I've found on the mo
Hi there - not sure how much overlap there is with vcfed's forum, but
thought I would reach out here in case. I have a terminal from 1974 (based
on date codes I've found on the motherboard). I'm unable to determine
manufacturer and that would be handy for diagnostic purposes. The terminal
casing
According to how he signed off on a letter to Dobbs, his initial was C.
On Thursday, March 4, 2021, 06:13:40 a.m. PST, John Foust via cctalk
wrote:
At 10:23 PM 3/3/2021, Brad H via cctalk wrote:
>I am working on a 30 minute historical video about the digital group. For
>
Hi there,
I am working on a 30 minute historical video about the digital group. For
source material there isn't a ton of stuff out there unfortunately and much of
the account of what happened to the company comes from the late Dr. Robert
Suding. In his account, Suding sort of points fingers a
Hi there,
A longshot I'm sure - but I am wondering if anyone familiar with MSI (Midwest
Scentific - SS50 bus system) would happen to have a copy of the software for
their 1702A EPROM burner, I think the model is PR-1. I just picked one up and
am eager to see if I can use it to read/burn 1702As
in!
On Jan 10, 2019, at 8:55 PM, Allison Parent wrote:
Seriously?
You haven’t looked. Start with bitsavers, then Dave dunfelds old computers.
That’s from memory as I’m on the phone.
iPhoned this in!
On Jan 10, 2019, at 6:25 PM, Brad H via cctalk wrote:
Wondering if anyone has any EPROM
Wondering if anyone has any EPROM dumps of Netronics' BASIC for the
Explorer/85. I'd like to set up my own EX/85 for that but also have this
little Atlantis 8085 board that I was hoping to experiment with. I've
looked all over the interwebs and have had no luck finding a dump, although
I have fou
> Some small companies would give employees extreme discounts if they
assembled one themselves using mostly parts which had been deemed too >
>obsolete for production.
I was thinking something like that, or it was repaired at one point and this
particular board was on hand to use as a replacement.
/c
> On Dec 29, 2018, at 2:53 PM, Brad H via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Am just posting this as I am hoping someone out there knows someone
> who was involved with Osborne back in the day to find out more this
> Osborne 1 motherboard I found in a low serial O1 I picked up for $100.
>
alk@classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard
On 12/29/18 2:53 PM, Brad H via cctalk wrote:
> Am just posting this as I am hoping someone out there knows someone
> who was involved with Osborne back in the day to find out more this
> Osborne 1 motherboard I f
Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard
On 12/29/18 12:53 PM, Brad H via cctalk wrote:
> I reached out to Lee Felsenstein on it and he suggested it was related
> to the boards produced for the 10 prototypes Osborne built
I'm pretty sure I threw one of those out about five years ago.
Am just posting this as I am hoping someone out there knows someone who was
involved with Osborne back in the day to find out more this Osborne 1
motherboard I found in a low serial O1 I picked up for $100.
I reached out to Lee Felsenstein on it and he suggested it was related to
the boards pro
I'm not sure how many of you who are on this list are on the vcfed.org
forum, but just for those who aren't, with the help of Dave and Monty from
there, I have recently restored a 4051 I bought a couple years ago to
working condition. Last night with their guidance I connected it to a
Tektronix de
I regret we haven't been able to resusciate my 4051 yet. Still kills power to
the main board.
I didn't know there were games for the 40xx machines. I didn't think they
could with the limitations of the screen design, although I kinda thought the
display would work well for, say, an adven
: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 11:05 AM
To: Brad H via cctalk
Subject: Re: Dumping my first EPROM
I would convert it to a binary image if you could and then look at it with a
binary editor. Most binary editors I have seen show the data in hex and also
have an eye catcher on the right with the ASCII
Just posting this here in case it reaches eyes not in other forums I'm on.
I decided to embark on a project that involves burning a 2708 EPROM. I've
never messed with EPROMs before, so I decided to practice. What I have is a
Microworks 2708 'burner' that came with a SWTPC 6800 machine I have.
I had that happening on mine.. came down to a bad RAM board.
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Original message
From: Nick Allen via cctalk
Date: 2018-01-01 10:32 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Subject: Help diagnosing boot issue SWTPC 6800
Hey everyone, Happy
.
Good luck!
Steven
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Brad H via cctalk
wrote:
Hi there,
I just purchased an RCA Microtutor minus the rather important CPU card. I
can recreate the card but I expect locating the 1801 chips will be
difficult. I am just posting this in various forums in
nan
via cctalk
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Chuck Guzis
Subject: Re: CDP1801
> On 10/18/2017 06:45 PM, Brad H via cctalk wrote:
>
> > I just purchased an RCA Microtutor minus the rather important CPU
card. I
> &
Very nice.
I wouldn't mind having a Sorcerer but I'm not sure why they command
Altair-level prices. There's a guy on ebay from my area with 6 of them and
a bunch of other stuff for $12k. Won't split them up unfortunately (won't
even answer messages).
Brad
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From: cctal
It is easy, find them on aliexpress
2017-10-18 23:45 GMT-02:00 Brad H via cctalk mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org> >:
Hi there,
I just purchased an RCA Microtutor minus the rather important CPU card. I
can recreate the card but I expect locating the 1801 chips will be
difficult. I a
Hi there,
I just purchased an RCA Microtutor minus the rather important CPU card. I
can recreate the card but I expect locating the 1801 chips will be
difficult. I am just posting this in various forums in case anyone has any
leads on where I might find either the complete card or the require
That's really great! I wish someone like you had been around when I started
collecting! Something like this is kind of what I'm thinking of doing with my
collection once I'm done with it. But not yet.. still saving up for an Altair.
:)
You wouldn't be willing to put up pictures somewhere, wo
Okay so I went down to the shop annd...
Yeah still doing what it did before. Repair guy thought the flash when he
turned it off meant the screen was ok. He did say he checked the display
board thoroughly and replaced a bad IC - otherwise everything looked good
there.
So we had a poke around
ake some scope shots...
Even with the screen flooded,if I let it sit and hit space, not HOME PAGE on my
working 4051, you can still see the characters you type faintly, and the cursor
blink.
Randy
From: cctalk on behalf of Brad H via cctalk
Sent: Tuesday, October 3, 2017
, do you see the man CRT gun
assemblies filament light up (can't remember if can been seen with the shield
on) ?
Good Luck, while at Tek I kept thinking of building one but never did.
-pete
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Brad H via cctalk mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote
kind of prompt or
anything appearing."
Care to share with the class what you've done so far?
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Brad H via cctalk mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote:
Hi there,
My go-to guy for CRT stuff has informed me that he has the CRT on my 4051
working
e with the class what you've done so far?
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Brad H via cctalk mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote:
Hi there,
My go-to guy for CRT stuff has informed me that he has the CRT on my 4051
working and that the tube is good. When I got my 4051, on power
Hi there,
My go-to guy for CRT stuff has informed me that he has the CRT on my 4051
working and that the tube is good. When I got my 4051, on power up there
would be no voltage to the motherboard and nothing came up on the screen.
That has been fixed, however we still do not have any kind of p
I agree.. the LCM+L looks awesome. And really, winter is an ideal time to do
vintage computer stuff. Usually our winters are not that bad up here, but this
last year we had snow on the ground almost continuously through March. It was
brutal.
Perhaps if weather proves difficult this year,
Ooh. That might be one to bring my TVT and Mark-8 stuff to, provided we don't
have another winter like we did last year. I'm up in BC and we just got
pounded this year with snow and bad weather.. if it's like that again I'll have
to pass.. BC drivers are terrible on snow.
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Original message
From: allison via cctech
Date: 2017-06-26 14:50 (GMT-08:00)
To: cct...@classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: TV Typewriter project nearing completion
On 06/26/2017 11:29 AM, Brad H via cctech wrote:
> Thanks Nick!
>
> I had thought about selling PCBs or creating a
Thanks Nick!
I had thought about selling PCBs or creating a kit, but I lack the skill to
draft it in PCB CAD software. The boards I made come from scans of the plans
(on swtpc.com), and I really had to tweak those to get them to work. And even
then, while I was able to correct for size I miss
Thought I would post an update here of my progress in recreating Don
Lancaster's original TVT prototype: http://bradhodge.ca/blog/?cat=11
Visually I think it's pretty close. I just ordered the transformer from
Signal Tranformer - the same 24-1A the original used, so I'm pretty keen to
get that
Thanks for posting this. I'm very interested to see how collectors value it.
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Stéphane
Tsacas via cctalk
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 3:56 PM
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General
Curious about this machine. I've seen a few come up on ebay and they've sold
for not much money, mistaken as mere Apple II clones. I read Lee Felsenstein's
account of creating them and they seem like interesting machines. Wondering
what sort of value is reasonable to pay for one and how hard
Very cool! Wish we had one of these up here in Vancouver, BC.
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From: Jason T via cctalk
Date: 2017-05-20 6:05 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: chiclassicc...@yahoogroups.com, "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
Posts" , The Res
Thanks for the pics!
Curious.. the Mark-8 in the museum.. that's a repro, right? I thought they got
a few real ones from Bugbook.
Brad
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From: william degnan via cctalk
Date: 2017-05-03 5:03 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: "General Dis
Hi there,
I was wondering if anyone knew of a repository that had SWTPC tape files
archived (as .WAV, .TAP, etc). The 6800 system I am presently using is
wired according to original SWTPC specs and does not have a DB25.. so I
cannot simply switch cables from CT1024 to PC terminal like I could
Thanks so much to everyone sharing these. Ive not renewed my passport in a
while and can't get to any of these events in the US so I really appreciate
these. Maybe someday we can get a 360/VR type tour thing going.
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From: Ev
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brad H
via
> cctalk
> Sent: 23 March 2017 23:58
> To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
>
> Subject: GImix Ghost Video Board
>
> Hoping someone mig
Hoping someone might be able to help me on this.
I got a Gimix Ghost SS50 video board today and was trying to find a manual.
I'm sure these were used in Gimix's own ghost systems but the very limited
info I've come across out there suggests they may have worked with any SS50
system. It basical
ut I imagine it's in the realm of possibility at least.
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin via
cctalk
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3:45 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Pair of Twiggys
On
I don't know if I'd pay $25k for Twiggys but I understand the impulse. The
problem is, what happens when the novelty wears off? I also wonder what the
long term value is as generations that experienced these things pass on to
those who've never known a day withot a smartphone.
That's a w
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