PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

2017-03-28 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Michael-John Turner via cctalk wrote: Own a piece of gaming history! This Indy workstation was once owned by Acclaim Entertainment, the legendary game publisher, and was liquidated at Acclaim's bankruptcy sale in 2004. It sat untouched in a Brooklyn warehouse for

Re: PDP-11/20 in Iowa (x3)

2017-03-27 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, Ben Sinclair via cctalk wrote: I'm only a half hour from Boone. But, I can barely keep my 11/23 running, so I don't think I would be a good owner for these. I offered to help the poster if they want, as I don't want to see these scrapped either. Hey Ben; Apologies for

Re: PDP 8e green / lab version rack Ebay

2017-08-17 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, william degnan via cctalk wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-Equipment-Corporation-DEC-PDP-lab8-e-Vintage-1970s-computer/15297190 I hope someone my most-often-traversed groups (CCTech or VCFed) gets this! I'd love to keep 'an eye' on it, but I'm not sure I'd

Re: Re: Directory of old computer collectors

2017-05-24 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
On Wed, 24 May 2017, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote: Hi Jim, Anybody that is paranoid about telling their location and the computer dinosaurs running in their basement needs a head alignment. Another case of some guy over-estimating the worth of the junk we hold on to. It is zero, of value

OT- Thunderbird ugliness, Was: Eudora email client source code released

2018-05-23 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
On Tue, 22 May 2018, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: so I use Thunderbird on a Linux platform. It is awfully slow. Sometimes it takes 5 minutes to download 3 messages when I start it up. At home I use Thunderbird with standard Linux smtp and pop servers and it works fine. Apologies to hijack

Looking for an ex-Sun employee; Alan Charlesworth

2018-06-08 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
Hey all; I'd love to talk to Alan Charlesworth, who used to work for Sun and (I believe) CRS before that. I'm interested in his perspective on some historical happenings and Sun design work. If anyone knows him and might be willing to get me in contact with him I'd very much appreciate

Searching for EBBS][

2018-02-07 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
As the title suggests, I'm looking for a copy of the EBBS][ software for a friend who used to run an Apple based BBS many moons ago and is looking out for a bit of nostalgia. So far he's been unable to locate the disks the system used to be on (he suspects damaged in a storage space flood in

Semi-OT: Hitachi Seiki Micon16-II

2018-07-22 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
Good arvo all; A family member recently purchased a rather large CNC which uses a Micon16-II system (as well as a Fanuc 15M) to drive it. Unfortunately the battery for the RAM died during storage prior to him getting it and all of the ladder logic is gone. We'd really love to try and find

Re: Semi-OT: Hitachi Seiki Micon16-II

2018-07-22 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
to him already - but lost contact (presumably he got busy, which is hardly a crime). We'll touch base again and catch up. Thank you; - JP On 07/22/2018 11:26 AM, JP Hindin via cctalk wrote: Good arvo all; A family member recently purchased a rather large CNC which uses a Micon16-II

Re: IF you need these old vintage parts, PLEASE grab them before the keyboard keids do!

2018-12-18 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote: https://www.elecshopper.com/vintage-computers.html I really would rather these go to someone who needs them to complete a system than to the destroyers of keyboards. I am trying to get more of the vintage stuff listed. If you want to see

Re: Sealed Sun memory modules

2019-08-09 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
On Fri, 9 Aug 2019, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: I am being offered some sealed Sun memory modules, PN 501-3050. These are 512MB compatible with: * Compatible with Sun Blade 1000 with 600MHz CPU, 1000 with 750MHz CPU, 1000 with 900MHz CPU, Blade 1000 Workstation, 2000 Blade 2000

Vintage computer store hints in Minneapolis?

2019-09-23 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
Morning all; I was up in Minneapolis over the weekend and will probably be back next weekend - I was wondering where the local geeks might go for some nifty goodness (for sale or just to gander at)? When I was up there I hit FreeGeek and picked up a SCSI SyQuest EZ135 external drive and a

Seeking Zenith Data Systems Z183-92 documentation

2020-02-24 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
Good afternoon all; I picked up a ZDS Z183-92 laptop over the weekend alongside a Kodak Diconix 150 portable inkjet printer. The prior owner doesn't think he ever had a power supply for the Z183, although he discovered that it does power up sort-of from the Diconix power supply

Re: Seeking Zenith Data Systems Z183-92 documentation

2020-02-24 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020, Eric Christopherson wrote: I picked up a ZDS Z183-92 laptop over the weekend alongside a Kodak Diconix 150 portable inkjet printer. Is that close to a ZWL-183-93? My partner just picked up one of those, and its brick can be described as: Model 150-308 DC

FS: Video Toaster partial system

2020-06-30 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
A person on Reddit picked up what appears to be part of a Video Toaster and is interested in getting it to someone who can actually use it. I offered to pass on the message- The system is in a PC case, with two full-height 5.25" Seagate SCSI disks and a third-height 3.5" IBM SCSI disk,

Re: cray unicos cds sold on ebay in 2016

2020-07-15 Thread JP Hindin via cctalk
On Sat, 11 Jul 2020, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 7/11/20 6:14 AM, Plamen Mihaylov via cctalk wrote: Any clue who won this auction? No. But I bet there are some people that would be interested in it. jpkiwigeek on YouTube comes to mind. Now that I think about him, I've not seen