Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap - WON

2019-10-02 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 8:33 PM Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > That's always mystified me too. "1000 series" for model numbers like > 2108B, 2112B, 2113E, etc. > Weird corporate thinking. Maybe too much printed material with "1000" on > to change? > Or some other company had trademarked "2000

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap - WON

2019-09-30 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
Yesterday: >These will go up on my site at http://everist.org/pics/pcbs Then promptly the web hosting server goes down, since this morning of 20190930 Tue in Australia. I don't yet know why, or have any estimate of when it will come back up. Guy

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap - WON

2019-09-30 Thread Frank McConnell via cctalk
On Sep 29, 2019, at 19:32, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > > At 10:03 PM 27/09/2019 -0500, JRJ wrote: >> Thanks for the tip. (Part of not recognizing that is that I had never >> made the connection between the 2108B/2112B and the "1000" series >> before, until I read about it in this thread, and

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap - WON

2019-09-29 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
Developments! I asked: >Alternatively, is there anyone on the US East coast who wants to play hold and >reship? Dan Veeneman in Maryland has volunteered. Thank you Dan! His web site: http://decodesystems.com is pretty cool, check it out. Assuming I can get the seller to ship the boards to

RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap - WON

2019-09-29 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
Sure, they can come here and sit in the warehouse for no more than a month. I will identify the boards and ship to the appropriate addresses. Please note that orders shipped to the EU or Russia or Australia become cheaper in larger batches. I usually ship keyboards, and in this scenario, 1

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-29 Thread Patrick Finnegan via cctalk
Destroying something that’s useful in the name of a quick buck is wrong. > > -- Chris > It probably would have ended up at a board recycler or in a dumpster instead of on eBay where you have a chance of acquiring it. If you're not happy with the "quick buck" the scrappers are getting, just

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-27 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 9/27/2019 4:34 AM, Paul Birkel via cctalk wrote: > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jay Jaeger > via cctalk > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2019 6:40 PM > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: HP vintage boards b

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-27 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 05:42 PM 27/09/2019 -0700, you wrote: >On Sep 26, 2019, at 7:24 AM, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk > wrote: >> >> 3. Just because you have different opinions doesn't mean their ways are >> wrong. Hell, they even seem to be willing to work with people interested in >> single boards. I'm sure

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-27 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
On Sep 26, 2019, at 7:24 AM, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk wrote: > > 3. Just because you have different opinions doesn't mean their ways are > wrong. Hell, they even seem to be willing to work with people interested in > single boards. I'm sure they're putting "GOLD!!!" in the title for >

RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-27 Thread Paul Birkel via cctalk
-Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jay Jaeger via cctalk Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2019 6:40 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap ... > There is a stack of IO interface boards, including H

RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-27 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 06:08 PM 26/09/2019 -0700, you wrote: >> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Guy >> Dunphy via cctalk >> Incidentally I've identified those boards. The ones with the pull rings: >> >> https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/ZrUAAOSwI5Fdg5KH/$_57.j >> pg >> >>

RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-26 Thread CuriousMarc via cctalk
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Guy > Dunphy via cctalk > Incidentally I've identified those boards. The ones with the pull rings: > > https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/ZrUAAOSwI5Fdg5KH/$_57.j > pg > > They are 12/13 bit isolated DtoA, either voltage or

RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-26 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
I have contacted the seller and asked what it would take to get these boards ESD wrapped and properly packaged to me in TX. We will see if he is willing... -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Electronics Plus via cctalk Sent: Tuesday,

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-26 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 9/25/2019 2:00 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: > On 2019-Sep-25, at 3:07 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > >> Does anyone else recognise some of the other boards? > > > There is a stack of IO interface boards, including HSTs, for the HP 2100/1000 > series there. > > Lower-right stack

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-26 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/26/19 7:24 AM, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk wrote: 3. Just because you have different opinions doesn't mean their ways are wrong. If you follow their listings, the seller has been trying to move this stuff for a while.

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-26 Thread Patrick Finnegan via cctalk
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 17:26 Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > At 02:59 PM 25/09/2019 -0500, John wrote: > >What, isn't anyone going to speculate on the value of the gold here? :-) > > > The seller would seem to have been pulling rare boards from many old > machines, > probably scrapping the

RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-26 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
...@optusnet.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 10:39 PM To: Electronics Plus Subject: RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap At 04:46 PM 25/09/2019 -0500, you wrote: >If enough people want them, and someone gets a winning bid, then they can >come to me and I will repackage and ship them for the

RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-25 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
ussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts >Subject: Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap > >At 12:00 PM 25/09/2019 -0700, you wrote: >>On 2019-Sep-25, at 3:07 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: >> >>> Does anyone else recognise some of the other boards? >> >> >

RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-25 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
, September 25, 2019 4:01 PM To: Brent Hilpert; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap At 12:00 PM 25/09/2019 -0700, you wrote: >On 2019-Sep-25, at 3:07 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > >> Does anyone else recognise some of the

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-25 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
> What, isn't anyone going to speculate on the value of the gold here? :-) Why bother? Everyone's opinion is completely accurate. -- Will

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-25 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 02:59 PM 25/09/2019 -0500, John wrote: >What, isn't anyone going to speculate on the value of the gold here? :-) The seller would seem to have been pulling rare boards from many old machines, probably scrapping the systems (since they would have been more saleable with the boards installed)

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-25 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 12:00 PM 25/09/2019 -0700, you wrote: >On 2019-Sep-25, at 3:07 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > >> Does anyone else recognise some of the other boards? > > >There is a stack of IO interface boards, including HSTs, for the HP 2100/1000 >series there. > >Lower-right stack in this pic, 7

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-25 Thread John Foust via cctalk
At 02:00 PM 9/25/2019, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: >On 2019-Sep-25, at 3:07 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > >> Does anyone else recognise some of the other boards? What, isn't anyone going to speculate on the value of the gold here? :-) - John

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-25 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2019-Sep-25, at 3:07 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > Does anyone else recognise some of the other boards? There is a stack of IO interface boards, including HSTs, for the HP 2100/1000 series there. Lower-right stack in this pic, 7 boards, boards have one red and one grey handle:

RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-25 Thread Paul Birkel via cctalk
-Original Message- From: Guy Dunphy [mailto:gu...@optusnet.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 6:07 AM To: Paul Birkel; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap At 02:29 AM 25/09/2019 -0400, you wrote: >I contac

RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-25 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 02:29 AM 25/09/2019 -0400, you wrote: >I contacted the seller and was able to work out a very reasonable deal to >purchase a selected subset for my future needs. Oh, is that why the price dropped $50? Because some of the boards sold? So really the seller still has the same inflated idea of

RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-25 Thread Paul Birkel via cctalk
-Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Guy Dunphy via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 1:57 AM To: Electronics Plus; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap ... This is going

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

2019-09-24 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 05:38 PM 24/09/2019 -0500, Cindy wrote: >https://www.ebay.com/itm/174036836066 Sigh. A whole lot of HP 3497A data acquisition plugins (in the back there, with the pull rings): https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/ZrUAAOSwI5Fdg5KH/$_57.jpg Not sure which cards. Maybe optically isolated