[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

I remember that Sellam and I remember visiting your facility on a trip my wife and I did to the US. It was very impressive collection and that’s an understatement. It’s a shame all that was lost ☹ It served to reinforce my approach to this s tuff, grab first ask questions later otherwise it

[cctalk] Re: 8" floppy diskettes themselves (was: 8" floppy diskette storage cases)

ctalk Sent: Saturday, 15 October 2022 06:48 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Cc: Mike Stein Subject: [cctalk] Re: 8" floppy diskettes themselves (was: 8" floppy diskette storage cases) How much? On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 11:38 PM Kevin Parker via cctalk < cct

[cctalk] Re: 8" floppy diskettes themselves (was: 8" floppy diskette storage cases)

A little while ago I bought some new ones from https://www.floppydisk.com/ I have no relationship to floppydisk.com Kevin Parker -Original Message- From: Mike Begley via cctalk Sent: Thursday, 13 October 2022 14:12 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Cc: Mike Begley

[cctalk] Re: Apple G5 Rebuild

Thank you for all the responses to my query - they're really helpful. I'm usually pretty handy with Google but must have lost the plot this day - I was trying "pmg5 build" - doh. Kevin Parker -Original Message----- From: Kevin Parker via cctalk Sent: Monday, 10 October

[cctalk] Apple G5 Rebuild

Hoping there's an Apple enthusiast out there somewhere please. A friend gave me a PM G5 which I'd love to add to the Apple corner of my collection. Must admit I love the G5 case. Problem is the internals are in a million pieces but everything seems to be there. Its not a basket case, more like a

RE: How to reproduce the DEC cabinets' grey colour paint?

Assuming you have a portable piece of it you should be able to take it your hardware store and their paint dept can scan it for a colour match. Kevin Parker -Original Message- From: P Gebhardt via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:12 To: cctalk Cc: P Gebhardt Subject: How to

The Vertical Plane

This may be of interest to some list members, particularly those who have an interest in the BBC computer or just like Twilight Zone type stories. Apart from being extremely interested in classic computers I also like the old stories that surround these old machines. A while ago I stumbled across

WTB IBM Keyboard

Hi folks - I'm looking for a keyboard for my IBM 3197 Model D Twinax terminal. (My location - Victoria Australia) Thank you!! Kevin Parker

RE: Linearizing PDF scans

Hi Dave - I think it used to be called Byte Range Serving i.e. it would only serve up the page requested so URL's like somewebsite.com/myfile.pdf#page=4 would only send page 4 to the browser - I think this is what you are talking about Back in my earlier PDF days and the web we were quite a**l

SOT: Scanning old computer docs

If there is anyone on the list familiar with scanners I'd be most grateful for some advice please. Some time ago I bought a HP 8270 sheet feed (full duplex) scanner NOS. I wanted to digitise a whole heap of old computer documentation and for a little while I've been working through the big heap

RE: FW: List your old computer

+ days. Windows NT systems fared a lot worse, average of about 40 some days Stan On 2021-02-24 2:02 a.m., Kevin Parker via cctalk wrote: > My apologies for the tracker embedded in my original post. I use it > for my business and forgot to remove it before posting to this list. > &

FW: List your old computer

My apologies for the tracker embedded in my original post. I use it for my business and forgot to remove it before posting to this list. Kevin Parker -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Kevin Parker via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2021 6:00 PM To: 'General Discussion

List your old computer

Hi folks - there used to be a web site where you could register and list your "classic/old computer(s)". I'm not looking to do that but am trying to find something from years gone by that I think was on that site. I thought it was https://www.old-computers.com/ or http://oldcomputers.net/ but

RE: LCD screen repair

Thank you - the idea of replacing the actual screen did not occur to me but it's interesting that you might be able to do that. By repair I meant repair the surface as the underlying pixels appear to be OK. I have read a few articles on different methods and some crowds even tout a kit to do it -

LCD screen repair

Hi folks - be grateful for a little advice please. Some time I rescued an Apple Power Mac G4 (it's a beautiful machine, not that I'm a big Mac person, and I can't believe someone was going to toss it) - powers up OK but looks like it just needs a new battery as its not holding date and time.

Looking for suggestions for this

Hi folks - quite some time ago I picked up this little beauty (well I'm sure some may agree or disagree with me) off of ePAY. I happen to like black IBMs of any type. Of course I got gouged at the checkout paying the princely sum of $1.04 AUD - some might say I got robbed. In the photo with the

BYTE Magazines

I know the response to this might be quite subjective and depends on your particular interests. Do BYTE magazines have any collectability (maybe even from a historical perspective or something else)? I have to make some decisions about space (the perennial problem for a collector of course)

FTGH - Decstation 5000 plus many extras

Lets have another go (but this time I have some pictures) Decstation 5000/125 – also houses a CD drive. Two expansion storage boxes – one has a tape drive and the other one has a floppy drive. Two very large and heavy RGB Digital monitors – one has both Digital and Sony branding on the back of

Old tape data retrieval

(Just reposting this as it did not appear to appear on the list - there was about a two week period when I didn't see any CCMP emails for some reason - apologies if it has already appeared for others). I apologize if this is OT but I'm hoping someone on the list can help me fill a gap in my

OT - FTGH - U-Matic Tapes

(Apologies if this ends up appearing twice - I think I mucked up the address on the first one) A we're all aware members on this list often dabble with other technologies. In my very aggressive cleanup of my hobby space I came across a number of U-Matic Video Tapes. If anyone is into this

Re: FTGH - S100

This is now spoken for. Kevin Parker -- Original Message -- From: "Kevin Parker via cctech" To: "cctalk@classiccmp.org" Sent: 30/12/2019 12:09:44 PM Subject: FTGH - S100 FTGH - S100 This was a rescue (so its neither tested or power up) and some docs came with it so I assume they

FTGH - S100

FTGH - S100 This was a rescue (so its neither tested or power up) and some docs came with it so I assume they belong to this machine (see pics). http://koken.advancedimaging.com.au/index.php?/albums/s100-rescue-1/ The machine is located in Mortlake in the south west of Victoria (Australia)

FTGH - SORD Keyboard

Was going through a box of stuff someone gave me ages ago in keeping with my philosophy of grab first ask questions later. At the bottom found a SORD keyboard (regrettably not the whole thing) - looks like it comes from a M68. Photo:

SOT - Grab first and ask questions later

I suspect a number of members are like me - when there's salvage or rescue stuff on the radar you grab first and ask question later otherwise tomorrow it might not be there. I quite like those picker shows and subscribe to their philosophy "buy (or grab) it when you see it". I'm still ruing

TI994/A Power Supply

I may be stating the obvious here but looking for a little advice and reassurance from anyone on the list who may have had experience with these machines. I have a couple of TI99/4A's that I was given quite a long time ago along with about 50 software cartridges (if I understand things correctly

FTGH Decstation 5000

FTGH Decstation 5000 * Decstation 5000/125 - also houses a CD drive * 2 Expansion storage boxes - one has a tape drive and the other one has a floppy drive. * 2 very large and heavy RGB Digital monitors - one has both Digital and Sony branding on the back of it. I haven't dug the other one out as

Cleaning an old keyboard

I resurrected an old keyboard and mouse I like. Not wishing to gross anyone out but it looks like over time there was a build-up of oil etc from my hands etc and over time being stored away its turned to a really almost hard paste like stuff on both the mouse and keyboard. I've tried number of

RE: TRS-80 Fireworks

Quite normal - the capacitors dry out after about 30 or 40 years - there's lots of info around on replacing them with a polymer capacitor. I have over 20 TRS-80's with a large contingent of Model 3, 4, 4Ps, 12 and 16s - all had the same issue so if I acquire one now I do a pre-emptive strike

New face of the Bank of England's £50 note is revealed as Alan Turing

May be of interest to some list members https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48962557 Kevin Parker 0418 815 527

RSS Feeds

I'm looking for some reliable RSS feeds (I appreciate they seem to be coming rare these days) to do with classic computers, preferably with a TRS-80 flavour but I'm not going to be precious about it. Google didn't seem to produce too many and those it did were either not there anymore or broken

The Retro Search is back up

This will mostly interest TRS-80 enthusiasts on this list. Being a TRS-80 enthusiast myself it has been a long-time dream of mine to create a specialised TRS-80 search engine but creating a web facing search engine to crawl numerous sites, index and categorise was quite difficult on a low budget.

RE: Matching paint on DEC monitors, cases and cabinets

Try hardware stores - I believe Bunnings here (in Australia - may not exist where you are) can colour match from a part of a thing and then prepared an aerosol can of that colour. Kevin Parker 0418 815 527 -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Brian Roth via cctalk Sent:

RE: OCR old software listing

I've had a lot of success using Adobe's Clearscan for OCR'ing old stuff. Admittedly it's not perfect but it can improve the quality of an old document a lot. Kevin Parker 0418 815 527 -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Paul Koning via cctalk Sent: Tuesday, 1 January 2019

RE: VT320 Fonts

Try doing a search on google for "fonts terminal" (without the quotes) and you may find something suitable amongst the results. Kevin Parker -Original Message- From: cctech On Behalf Of Kyle Owen via cctech Sent: Friday, 12 October 2018 09:02 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and

Does anyone recognise these boards please

Be most grateful if anyone can advise here please. Rescued a TRS-80 MC10 from deceased estate recently - it was headed for the bin but got saved. The original owner was a bit of an electronics hobbyist and his brother-in-law tossed these boards in with the bundle I grabbed.

SOT: OCR errors PDF

Hi guys - wonder if any OCR aficionado can help me out please. I'm trying to clean up some old computer docs. One of things I'm doing is running OCR over them, in particular Adobe's ClearScan which I really like for document clarity and small file sizes. A few of them are producing the error:

RE: Is This A Shill?

Or do you use third-party software? I use Hammersnipe - I set the maximum I'm prepared to pay and walk away. If I win it good, if I don’t then that's OK too. Kevin Parker -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Eric Christopherson via cctalk

Last of the TRS-80's

Hi folks - hope there's a history buff out there that can help me please. Google has not been my friend or I'm just searching wrong. I am trying to ascertain what the last computer released by Tandy/Radio Shack was that had the TRS-80 name on it (as opposed to later machines that used the name

RE: Amust Executive up for auction

Sorry - omitted to include that I don’t know who the seller is and I have no connection with Kerleys Auctions  Kevin Parker P: 0418 815 527 -Original Message- From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Kevin Parker via cctalk Sent: Monday, 9 April 2018

Amust Executive up for auction

Not sure if anyone in the Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) might be interested in this. I only just found about it from a friend of mine in Melbourne. The very famous (well famous here anyway) Kerleys Auction (http://www.kerleys.net.au) in Geelong have listed an Amust Executive computer in

RE: Looking for opinions...

I previously worked for an insurance company and a very old issue reared its ugly head. Trouble was all the claim and policy info was on literally a truckload of microfiche and to find anything took three days (seriously) so ICT had them all scanned to PDF and OCR'd - it worked a treat but of

RE: Apollo Software

Definitely interested here Bill - I've got 3 Apollos from a rescue - have the machines and all the token ring gear but no manuals or software - as yet have to fire them up but anything Aegis related is of interest to me. Kevin Parker P: 0418 815 527 -Original Message- From:

RE: Livingston Portmaster 2e

I was curious as to what this was so I Googled it. A couple appear on epay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Livingston-PortMaster-2E-Communications-Server-/400327660103 Wow - not sure of that’s a realistic expectation of what they're worth or not. Kevin Parker P: 0418 815 527 -Original

SOT - Ultimate Classic Computing Geekdom

Hi folks - the family surprised me for Christmas by all contributing to some custom plates for my new car. This might tell you how well they know me. http://koken.advancedimaging.com.au/index.php?/albums/274143f7eae640a16c276e89b953503d/ Kevin Parker P: 0418 815 527

C64's still managing building systems

I spotted this article in one of my tech news feeds - it makes a couple of references to C64's still managing building systems. Rationale "it isn't broken". May be of interest to some list members.

RE: Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard

Al Kossow via cctalk Sent: Monday, 30 October 2017 11:14 To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard On 10/29/17 4:59 PM, Kevin Parker via cctalk wrote: > Maybe we (that's us on this list) need to apply

RE: Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard

Very sad when I hear stories like this and I'm not precluding the people who were directly affected by this - I'm located in Australia and while bushfires are a fact of life here, they're still devastating. Just going to toss an idea out there - have no idea how this might work but thought I'd

RE: Picked up tandy 1000 TX

Where are you located Kevin Parker -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of devin davison via cctalk Sent: Sunday, 29 October 2017 10:37 To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Subject: Picked up tandy 1000 TX I picked

C64 to a good home

Hi guys – quick story… Have a good friend who is building a new house. Includes a games room. Trying to think of a house warming present. He makes up and displays of old and new stuff and is talking about having a C64 and a PC together. I take a hint and figure I’ll refurbish a C64 (of which I

FTGH Decstation 5000

FTGH Decstation 5000 * Decstation 5000/125 - also houses a CD drive * 2 Expansion storage boxes - one has a tape drive and the other one has a floppy drive. * 2 very large and heavy RGB Digital monitors - one has both Digital and Sony branding on the back of it. I haven't

Does anyone recognise this please

Found this in a box of stuff I was given. Looks brand new. It's obviously a RF Modulator of some type but I can't tell exactly what it's for or designed for. One end has a number 251083-03 and the other end has a switch for CH0 and CH1. The DIN plug is 5 pin. I Googled the number and found

C64 to VGA

HI guys - not really a C64 person (I've been given a couple over the years and kept them rather than see them go to landfill). Trying to fix one up for a very good friend for a house warming present for his games room (he said something the other day that gave me the hint). I have a genuine

Why women were the first computer programmers

This most interesting article appeared in The Age (Melbourne) today. Thought it might be of interest to other list members. http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/careers-and-money/women-were-the-first-computer-programmers-then-men-crowd ed-them-out-20170822-gy1e8r.html

TRS-80 file extensions

I've been trying to put together a list of file extensions (and a one liner about that file extension) used by TRS-80's (including all the XZ-80 machines, CoCo's, the 8" machines, pocket computers, the 100's. MC-10's etc). Google has been my friend but has only turned up a few answers. I