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  • Category: Computers
  • Founded: Jan 17, 2005
  • Language: English
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17075 Evan Koblentz
evan947 Send Email
May 9, 2010
4:29 am
Hi all -- http://www.infoage.org/html/calendar-events.html Lots of upcoming events at InfoAge. There's something for everyone, from model rocket lessons to an...
17076 Sridhar Ayengar
narayanayengar Send Email
May 9, 2010
7:02 pm
... The IBM Model M is just a touch softer than the Selectric, but it's adaptable to pretty much any modern machine. And you can buy a brand new one with...
17077 Evan Koblentz
evan947 Send Email
May 10, 2010
3:59 am
We only had nine visitors to the computer museum today, but they were all good visitors -- adults who were genuinely interested, stayed for a while, and asked...
17078 Jeffrey Brace
arkaxow Send Email
May 10, 2010
4:35 am
That's great ! I was surprised to hear that were any visitors on Mother's Day ! And good visitors at that ! ... From: Evan Koblentz<mailto:evan@...> To:...
17079 Jim Kalin
jkalin196511 Send Email
May 10, 2010
6:56 am
I move the Model M keyboards, I use them on two main computers at got them off of eBay about five or six years ago, and they are working perfectly to this day....
17080 Sridhar Ayengar
narayanayengar Send Email
May 10, 2010
2:37 pm
I'm looking for a working Atari 2600 or two. Anyone have one for sale or trade? Peace... Sridhar...
17081 madodel Send Email May 10, 2010
3:18 pm
... If you find a source for more then one working 2600 I'd be interested in one as well. I have a couple here that I picked up (one at our church festival...
17082 Kelly D. Leavitt
kb2syd Send Email
May 10, 2010
3:27 pm
I have one of the Sears versions (Sears Tele-Games) that my brother-in-law wants to sell. It has 4 or 5 Sears Tele-Games carts too. What are they worth...
17083 evan@...
evan947 Send Email
May 10, 2010
3:29 pm
Don't use RF adapters. Use RCA-coax adapters. Much better picture that way. ... From: madodel <madodel@...> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 11:18:39 To:...
17084 Mr Ian Primus
ian_primus Send Email
May 10, 2010
3:32 pm
... It's probably not the console - they're pretty reliable. I'm betting on the RF switch. Here's what you do. Disconnect the RF switch from the Atari and the...
17085 Kelly D. Leavitt
kb2syd Send Email
May 10, 2010
3:32 pm
... I know, I was just stating what he had....
17086 Bill Degnan
billdeg Send Email
May 10, 2010
3:39 pm
You can get the new ones at the New Caste Delaware farmers market each weekend, may not be practical, but they must also be on the Internet for $20. Much more...
17087 Kelly D. Leavitt
kb2syd Send Email
May 10, 2010
4:04 pm
You can get new Atari 2600s (or Sears Tele-Games) at the New Castle Deleware farmer's market? Sweet. Almost worth the trip. I'll be running to Maryland in a...
17088 Evan Koblentz
evan947 Send Email
May 10, 2010
4:06 pm
... My message was in response to Ian -- I hadn't seen yours yet....
17089 Bill Degnan
billdeg Send Email
May 10, 2010
4:23 pm
If you go, let me know and I will meet you there. I let most the Nintendo/Atari stuff go because I already have what I need, but there is always a guy selling...
17090 Justin Jernigan
jus10j Send Email
May 10, 2010
4:36 pm
If you headed that far south, might as well make a trip down and over to the Columbus (NJ) Farmer's/Flea Market as well. I haven't been in a while, but did...
17091 madodel Send Email May 10, 2010
8:07 pm
... Damn you and Ian were absolutely, 100% correct. Who would have thunk it. Thanks to you guys we now have a working Atari 2600. I'll have to try the other...
17092 Jim Scheef
jscheef Send Email
May 11, 2010
2:10 am
I would bet that whoever bought the Kenbak already has an Apple I. Jim...
17093 brian_cirulnick Send Email May 11, 2010
6:34 pm
... I second that. About 7 years ago... no, maybe it's a decade ago at this point, I made an effort to go around at TCF and buy as many of the PS/2 Model M...
17094 Bill Degnan
billdeg Send Email
May 11, 2010
6:47 pm
... favorite ... (although I still prefer my Amiga 1000's keyboard as the best I've ever used, but I can't use the Amiga 1000 keyboard on a modern PC (as far...
17095 Barry L. Kline
barry_kline Send Email
May 11, 2010
7:15 pm
... I'm sure that you're all aware of this, but the Model M was made by Unicomp, which is still in business. You can find their products here: ...
17096 David
dgreelish... Send Email
May 12, 2010
1:07 am
Hi everyone, I picked this system up on Sunday in Nashville, TN. It was a 520 mile round trip, with eight hours of driving, but it was worth it. This will...
17097 Jim Scheef
jscheef Send Email
May 12, 2010
1:28 am
David, What a cool find! Do you know when this was manufactured? I suspect this is from the Pertec years. I saw similar systems in the Byte Shop in LaGrange,...
17098 David
dgreelish... Send Email
May 12, 2010
1:52 am
Hi Jim, yes, I got it from the man who programed it when his company bought it in 1979 for $28,000 total! It is a four user system, with four terminals. They...
17099 Richard Cini
altairmanrich Send Email
May 12, 2010
1:57 am
I¹ve never seen one live but it looks like a Turnkey system (on the bottom), a disk controller (middle) and of course, a cartridge hard drive on the top ...
17100 Mike Willegal
mwillega Send Email
May 12, 2010
2:04 am
The fair market value for Apple 1's appears to be between 40,000 and 50,000. One was snapped up for less than that last year, but it was a buy it now auction...
17101 Evan Koblentz
evan947 Send Email
May 12, 2010
2:07 am
Wrong. The market value for an Apple 1 is 15-25K....
17102 Bill Degnan
billdeg Send Email
May 12, 2010
3:13 am
Awesome...a MITS Turnkey with a Hard Drive. A later Altair Pertec system, when Pertec owned the name Altair 1977 maybe 1978. The hard drive controller is...
17103 B Degnan
billdeg Send Email
May 12, 2010
3:32 am
While we're on the subject of Altairs, tonight I finally got 4K BASIC running on my Altair 8800b. I have been working on this for a few weeks. Dan suggested...
17104 Dan Roganti
ragoo_sauce Send Email
May 12, 2010
5:14 am
Hey my VCF T-shirt ! I wonder how many different places my T-Shirt has been to a rescue mission :) =Dan http://www.vintagecomputer.net/ragooman/...
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