Re: Altos system mislisted on Epay

2016-11-08 Thread william degnan
> > > > As a follow up, I did end up purchasing the thing, in order to get the > prerequisite Altos 8200 system board and hard disk controller to mate > with my existing Altos disk. (My disk is the larger sized SA-4008, > contrary to the 1004 I cited earlier). It is indeed a 8000-10 system, >

Re: Altos system mislisted on Epay

2016-11-08 Thread Jay Jaeger
On 10/17/2016 11:23 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote: > The back label says 8000-10A, which should indeed be a Z80 system with a > hard disk. I have an Altos 1004 disk for the thing (and experience with > its power supply ;) ), but when I bought mine, my seller (not the same > as this one) mis-listed the

Re: Altos system mislisted on Epay

2016-10-17 Thread James B DiGriz
On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:45:35 -0700 Steven M Jones wrote: > IIRC the auction copy indicated something had been done to the PSU as > well. There was a close-up of some wires soldered to some spade lugs, > but I don't recall seeing a good photo of the PSU itself. IIRC, mine

Re: Altos system mislisted on Epay

2016-10-16 Thread Steven M Jones
On 10/16/2016 15:38, Glen Slick wrote: > > Has the one in the listing here had the hard drive platter brutally > removed? Didn't take a close look at all of the photos to be sure. By my previous viewing of the pics in that auction - yes, somebody ripped the platters out of the HDD, breaking the

Re: Altos system mislisted on Epay

2016-10-16 Thread James B DiGriz
On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 01:38:55 + william degnan wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Glen Slick > wrote: > > > On Oct 16, 2016 3:19 PM, "jim stephens" wrote: > > > > > > > > > 48 min to go at 315 PDT > > > > > > Bit

Re: Altos system mislisted on Epay

2016-10-16 Thread william degnan
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Glen Slick wrote: > On Oct 16, 2016 3:19 PM, "jim stephens" wrote: > > > > > > 48 min to go at 315 PDT > > > > Bit thing not in listing is an SA-1004 disk. And I'm suspicious it is an > 8086, but who knows. Certainly

Re: Altos system mislisted on Epay

2016-10-16 Thread Glen Slick
On Oct 16, 2016 3:19 PM, "jim stephens" wrote: > > > 48 min to go at 315 PDT > > Bit thing not in listing is an SA-1004 disk. And I'm suspicious it is an 8086, but who knows. Certainly has many serials on the back. > >

Altos system mislisted on Epay

2016-10-16 Thread jim stephens
48 min to go at 315 PDT Bit thing not in listing is an SA-1004 disk. And I'm suspicious it is an 8086, but who knows. Certainly has many serials on the back. Moore-Business-Systems-Altos-ASC-8000-10A-Zilog-Z80-CP-M-Multi-user-Computer http://www.ebay.com/itm/311713600878