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.
-Original Message-
From: Jon Elson via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2020 2:07 PM
To: John-Paul Stewart ; gene...@ezwind.net ;
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
They would have to when items can be worth millions each and are one of a
kind.
-Original Message-
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
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
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
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.
-Original Message-
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"
Those are ATAPI to SCSI.
-Original Message-
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.
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.
-Original Message-
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
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
Those are for Tsengs Labs Ultrapak monochrome ISA video cards I think.
https://isite.tw/2016/08/20/16790/3
-Original Message-
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
; 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.
-Original Message-
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
I have 9 floppy disks for WRQ ReflectionX Windows V4.00 if anybody needs
images.
-Original Message-
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.
-Original Message-
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
Only somebody working for the NSA would bother trying to do that. Going from
theory to practice can be VERY expensive and time consuming.
-Original Message-
From: Ethan via cctalk
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 3:26 PM
To: Chuck Guzis ; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Switches for the buttons go bad, the rollers can corrode making for not so
smooth movement and the rollers need cleaned. Opticals either work fine or
they don't work at all (some early MS mice tended to die and had a recall).
-Original Message-
From: Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Sent:
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
Didn’t early SUN gear have SCSI floppy drives?
-Original Message-
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
100GB M-Discs are dual layer BlueRay media correct (not readable on a DVD
player)? I actually have a BDXL BR burner. I also have the M-Disc capable
DVD burners but never tried that media on them.
-Original Message-
From: Fred Cisin via cctalk
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 9:38 PM
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
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
The major 8mm tape drives I know about are SONY AIT
-Original Message-
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
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).
-Original Message-
From: Ed via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2017 9:31 PM
To: tin...@gmail.com ;
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
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
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