If the auction had the option for best offer and the seller took an offer
the listing will show it sold at the listed price and not the actual price.
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From: Jon Elson via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2020 2:07 PM
To: John-Paul Stewart ; gene...@ezwind.net ; dis
All this shows me is that in principal people will pick the extreme ends of
a topic to fight about but in reality once you get into specifics and
details most people are really in the middle and tend to agree on what
should be done (in most cases).
You can argue to the point of violence if a g
They would have to when items can be worth millions each and are one of a
kind.
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From: William Donzelli via cctalk
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 1:31 PM
To: Paul Koning ; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Living Computer Museum
Loans are st
They probably don't know.
Anytime somebody with $20B dies it will take years to sort out the estate
because of taxes and people lining up for money due (legit or not). Any
charities set up before he passed probably have to live off of what money
they had on hand before his passing for a few ye
Patents are generally used to document who invented what first. Commercial
success building on old research and patents tends to be what is remembered.
So what if some guy in 1761 heated up a wire until it glowed releasing
light, it took many people over a long time to come up with a usable che
At least shipping is cheap.
Never seen a 4 pack before. I still have tons of green 5.25" DD disks I
picked up bulk when I got into 8 bit computers in the early 2000's.
Duplicators were dumping them so cheap back then, wish I would have snagged
more of the 3.5" DD back then.
TZ
-Origina
I have not seen any half dollars in circulation in some time. They are just
too big to fit in people skinny jeans these days.
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From: Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 3:18 PM
To: Fred Cisin via cctalk
Subject: Re: OT: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was
Those are ATAPI to SCSI.
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From: Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 3:38 PM
To: Rico Pajarola via cctalk
Subject: Re: SCSI2SD: Is it worth a try?
FWIW, there are a couple of Addonics AEC7722 adapters (SCSI-to-IDE)
selling for $50-70 on eBay. Don
Simple databases were also a killer app. I still recall a small stamp/coin
shop firing up a C64 to look for inventory in the early/mid 80's.
I hated using a typewriter for school reports so when I purchased a C64 in
the 80's I used that for reports. The only thing an electronic word
processor
I passed on mint complete word processors at a recyclers ages ago because I
had no use for them. I almost picked up a huge IBM typewriter but changed my
mind.
Everybody has limited space so we try not to fill it with things way outside
of our normal collecting. If anything I regret not grabbing
I think you need to recheck the shipping estimate.
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From: Donald via cctalk
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2018 3:30 PM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Subject: IT books available
Listed these on eBay a few times. No takers.
Being offered here for the price of USPS Media Mai
Anybody else notice that all the buyers for that keyboard on ebay are under
10 feedback?
The only Digital keyboards I have are a pair of LK411-AA that go with my
VT-525's. The recycler kept a stack of VT-525s for a while but the stack of
LK411 that went with them got their cords cut and chucke
Those are for Tsengs Labs Ultrapak monochrome ISA video cards I think.
https://isite.tw/2016/08/20/16790/3
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From: Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 8:58 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Cleaning out again
What kind of media is it DVD+R or DVD-R? I think DVD-R (Pioneer) came first
and all the original DVD burners support it and it is the most reliable if
you are making movies for older DVD players. DVD+R is a Sony and Phillips
design and the recording format is different.
The last generation of
; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: how good is the data reliability with CD ROM and DVD RAM?
thus, MO drive units are not reliable?
2018-07-21 23:34 GMT+02:00 Chuck Guzis via cctalk :
On 07/21/2018 02:12 PM, TeoZ via cctalk wrote:
I have old IBM MO Worm disks that
I had a home CDR back when they were over $1000+ new. The media turned out
to be very reliable (and I have a bunch with gold, blue, green dye) and it
still readable as long as you didn't scratch the optical reflective layer. I
also used a laser printed paper cover which probably kept air out. I
People seem to be looking for AT style PC cases all the time.
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From: Fred Cisin via cctalk
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2018 5:51 PM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Subject: Landfill?
Is there ANY interest in Courier 56K V.92 modems?
Laserjet IIP printers?
Parallel port a
I have 9 floppy disks for WRQ ReflectionX Windows V4.00 if anybody needs
images.
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From: Jim Carpenter via cctalk
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2018 10:16 PM
To: Bill Degnan ; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: WRQ Reflection 4+ DOS
On 06/05/2018
Or they now think everything that is worthless is worth massive amounts of
money.
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From: Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 2:15 PM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: old DEC stuff
On 05/30/2018 01:55 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
I have never had a program to snipe for me, but I like the idea of others
sniping since it saves me money not being tempted to outbid somebody else
before the auction ends. I bid low and if I win good, otherwise I wait for
the item to come around again.
People can get emotional and do bidding
My first computer was a Timex 2068 just before Timex got out of computers. I
had seen advertisements for the 1000 model but it looked like junk at the
time (no real keyboard, you needed to have the 16K RAM cart to do anything).
Still the 1000 was CHEAP.
When I vacationed in Greece for a summer
Only somebody working for the NSA would bother trying to do that. Going from
theory to practice can be VERY expensive and time consuming.
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From: Ethan via cctalk
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 3:26 PM
To: Chuck Guzis ; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Su
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 2:24 PM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Keyboard "enthusiasts"
> From: TeoZ
> mouse (optical mice are better then the old ones with balls). I even
> keep old ball mice around ... and those do wear out)
It's not just on ebay. I asked fellow collectors on 68kmla about their
machine to keyboard/mouse ratio and they all had more machines then
keyboards. Sooner or later machines will be useless because there are not
enough keyboards and mice to go around.
While I keep stacks of mac keyboards and
Didn’t early SUN gear have SCSI floppy drives?
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From: Fred Cisin via cctalk
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 9:18 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1522A SCSI Support (was re: New TestFDC Results
Registry)
On Thu, 18 Jan 20
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Large discs (Was: Spectre & Meltdown
On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, TeoZ wrote:
Hard drives NEVER keep up. Bragging about how many DVD's (90's technology)
you can store on current HD means little to people who have ultra HD
Bluer
Hard drives NEVER keep up. Bragging about how many DVD's (90's technology)
you can store on current HD means little to people who have ultra HD Blueray
videos that take up to 100GB of space. Heck even a single game download can
be 50GB these days.
And I wouldn't mind one of those old networked
LTO is what I use for large archives. Tapes and drives are plentiful and
cheap. LTO-1 is 100/200GB, LTO-2 is 200/400GB (native compressed). DLT is
older and lower capacity but cheap, Super DLT is newer and higher capacity
and expensive.
I also play around with DDS 1-4, AIT 1 and 2, dabble with
The major 8mm tape drives I know about are SONY AIT
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From: Glen Slick via cctalk
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2017 11:35 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Scsi tape and compatible tapes that are available
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 8:23 P
It depends on what the object in question is for (decoration or durability)
and what time period it was done.
Way back in the early 90's when I worked at a plating facility for the
printing industry (Tide soap boxes, Marlboro cigarette boxes as an example)
they used to copper plate large and
The switch to home USB printer/scanner combinations also killed off the
generic standalone scanners (especially the parallel port ones and the
almost dead SCSI variety).
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From: Ed via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2017 9:31 PM
To: tin...@gmail.com ; cctalk@clas
How do you feel about reading dead presidents personal letters? At some
point personal information ends up being historic information.
If there is money (or more money) to be made associating a Computer to a
company or specific somewhat famous people then sellers will play this angle
for all i
Superdrives (floppy drives) are starting to be a problem on 68k Mac systems
because they fail (motors die, heads get ripped off, etc). The later ones
with the black flap (cost reduced) found on PPC systems seem to last. Same
problems with the IBM PS/2 floppy drives.
Twiggy drives seemed to be
Jobs had to get fired for Apple to recall the expansion capabilities of the
Apple II days and start making the Mac II series.
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From: geneb via cctalk
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 4:46 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Pair of Twiggy
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/general-electronics-recycling/30872-old-computer-peripherals-main-frame-etc-should-i.html
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Everybody has something they do to chill out, some drink or jog, or play
games.
Anyway my first computers in the 80's were for gaming (Timex 2068 and then a
C64). Both were cheap systems. I went to a 286 for school work and since I
sold the C64 to help pay for it I did some gaming on it. Mos
Since you would be using the Amiga for video it would be emulated CGA or
mono. I think you can install a VGA card in an ISA slot (and you can expand
all the slots to 16 bit if you solder in the header).
Most people used an ISA network card to get around the more expensive Zorro
Amiga boards (1
There are also the type of people who get into a hobby and buy all kinds of
gear then get bored and ditch it a few years later.
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From: Jon Elson
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2016 3:32 PM
To: gene...@classiccmp.org ; discuss...@classiccmp.org:On-Topic and
Off-Topic Posts
What drive type are you trying to read that tape with? DD-90 is DDS-1 era
tape and DDS-4 drives (or newer) will not read it. Also hardware compression
might have something to do with it.
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From: Douglas Taylor
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 7:35 PM
To: cctalk@classi
So your waiting for BMW or Mercedes to come out with the Hindenburg line of
hydrogen powered vehicles?
I hope before I die somebody comes out with a nuclear powered car that can
do 300,000 miles per reactor replacement.
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From: Jerry Kemp
Sent: Thursday, September
They never really show acceleration and deceleration onboard a spaceship
affecting the crew so why bother with seat belts (that would be a pain for
the actors to use)? Besides what good would they do if you actually hit
something large in space at the speed of light.
Handheld phasers would be
NT 4.0 was ok, but for me Windows 2000 was the coolest thing ever since I
could have stability AND play games on it. Playing with the W2K betas was
fun, never got excited about a MS OS since then.
Speaking of games Windows 95 was a huge shift in the world because while I
got used to apps on W
Was cleaning out some stuff and ran across some HP drive sleds I don’t need.
HP Model A3647A made for 4.3GB HVD 3.5” SCA 7200 RPM drives.
I have 4 of them and all the screws that were inside holding the drives.
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Try Amibay forums. Somebody there is selling newly built 16MB SIMMs but they
are not cheap.
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From: Joe Piche
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 12:28 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: GVP Ram for Amiga Accelerators
I've got an old amiga 2000
"Original owner believed to be an early Apple employee ". You have the
current owner who has a receipt from the previous owner who had said he got
it from "maybe" an Apple employee back in 1977.
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From: Evan Koblentz
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 10:26 PM
To: General
A2000HD had the built in hard drive.
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From: Christian Corti
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2016 1:16 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Reproduction micros
On Sat, 16 Jul 2016, Peter Corlett wrote:
main compelling feature of the A2000
A Quadra 950 is also a decent machine if you want to fill it up with cards.
Most 840av's these days have bad motherboards from leaking capacitors and
the plastics break if you sneeze too hard close to them.
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From: N0body H0me
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2016 1:05 A
People junked most of the older small low res slow refresh non working (bad
caps) non widescreen LCD monitors by now. I kept one I got free and fixed
ages ago for bench testing (has just a VGA connection) since it is easy to
move around. Newer gaming video cards don't even have VGA out anymore s
The ultimate gaming 486 would have an EISA+VLB motherboard. EISA for SCSI
caching controllers and 10/100 Ethernet cards, VLB for high end video cards,
plus room for an ISA sound card.
The ultimate work 486 would probably be an IBM PS/2 Model 90 or 95 with
exotic MCA cards. Or the same EISA
Yes, they were common in later PS/2 machines. I don't have a single 2.8Mb
disk but quite a few drives go figure. Don't really see the need for them
now or even back then. Might have helped with OS releases if they could cut
in half the amount of disks you needed, but CDROM killed the need.
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Typing on a Model M in my room hooked up to a Belkin SOHO KVM and 4
modernish machines (PS/2 to USB adapter). Also have a KVM setup in the lab
with a Model M. And a stack of spares thanks to a local recycler years ago.
Back in the 90's I used Northgate keyboards. I also have Apple Extended II
k
I must be luck in that I never sold or gave away anything I regret. My
problem is passing on things I should have snagged.
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Those are pretty hard to find, have yet to add one to my collection.
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From: Chris Hanson
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 9:13 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Titlers, Switchers, Paintboxes, Paint Apps and Old Broadcast
Equipment
Seve
Radius Videovision was another major player early on for the mac (both Nubus
and later PCI versions). There was also semi pro stuff like Supermac
DigitalFilm. Targa also made a bunch of cards for overlays on PC and Mac.
Avid also had some dead ends like Avid Media Suite Pro for the Mac.
https:
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From: Swift Griggs
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 5:46 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Screen sizes. Was Re: Accelerator boards - no future? Bad business?
I *dream* of an LCD that's greater than 21" but uses a
much lower native resolu
When TWC dropped newsgroups here years ago I went with AGN.
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Try your local freecycle or craigslist if you are in the USA. Most of my C64
machines came from freecycle, people used to just give that stuff away.
A working C64 should be cheap, 1541 drives cost a $20 or so locally. The
monitors vary in price but I don't think that many are around and working
When it comes down to it with so many mergers and company deaths in the
software industry it might be hard for owners to prove they even own
something anymore. So the odds of you ending up in court are not that great.
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From: Jason Scott
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2
Even the people who do save hardware for collectors tend to dump any
original software they have, plus many hardware collectors don't bother with
legit software.
-Original Message-
From: Noel Chiappa
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2015 5:07 PM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Cc: j...@mercury.l
Never used one on a power supply but for motherboard capacitors and misc
parts they work fine. For the price they are worth having around.
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From: Ken Seefried
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 5:24 PM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Subject: ESR Meter Recommendations
I'm g
Sometimes I think management just wants to offload the important work to
some other entity so they can move the blame once things go south (and they
eventually will). So much in the news about companies getting hacked and all
the information stolen makes me wonder why your competition just cant
Even the unsold copies ended up getting purchased at the Atari liquidation
firesale and there are people still selling them NIB cheap. The ET cart can
be had for $2 (one of the cheapest)
http://www.atari2600.com/ccp7/ecom-prodshow/ET-The-Extra-Terrestrial-PROD375.html
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It last long enough to sell on ebay I assume.
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From: Peter Cetinski
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 2:55 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Cc: gene...@classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: De-yellowing results
I’ve only seen anecdotes that the yellowing r
Sometimes the yellow coming off is just the degraded plastic. Even a mild
cleaning just removes the surface layer of degraded plastic.
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From: Chris Elmquist
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2015 7:56 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: De-yell
AIT was 8mm using SONY drives and tapes (industrial use for 8mm camcorder
media).
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From: Chuck Guzis
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 10:20 PM
To: jwsm...@jwsss.com ; gene...@classiccmp.org ;
discuss...@classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Pertec
I still use a bunch of lead solder I purchased to fix the RAM on a C64 back
in the late 1980's plus you can still get it from China on ebay super cheap.
Just this week I fixed an Apple Ibook G3-500 that had the connector for the
trackpad/mouse come off the board from bad lead free soldering at
They didn't burn it, they just made it inoperable when the owner wanted to
install new legit copyrighted firmware. If you kept it as is when purchased
nothing would have happened.
If you took that fake unit into a company shop for free user upgrades I
think they would have the right to rip off
Its one thing to copy a design and stick your own name on it, another to
clone something and stick the legit company name and logo on it. Why can't
they brick a fake if they want to (after all it is the end user trying to
load copyrighted firmware on a fake product not the company seeking out to
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