Here's a blast from the past: Ebay #310339324086 I used to work on these back in '87/'88. The system was mostly used for COBOL applications, and could support...
Whoever built this thing was very talented... http://hackaday.com/2011/08/16/amazing-60-year-old-robot-dog-is-a-mystery/ It was found in an antique shop, has...
I have a IBM5170 that boots up with a "settings not stored" error & the Usual "Press F1 to continue". This usually happens when the Cmos battery is U/S. I...
Yesterday I learned (from a video by Bruce Damer of digibarn.com) that MITS Altair 8800 serial numbers all started with "22" and that the production sequence...
I was experimenting with a Model III Friday when one of its original power supplies decided to spark, crackle and then finally go up in smoke. It was in my...
Hi all! I have a Model I, 16K Level II, that powers up but doesn't display anything (the red LED comes on). I tried replacing the Z80 CPU but that didn't make...
... power supplies decided to spark, crackle and then finally go up in smoke. ... floor). Good thing I was in the office at the time. I just reached over and...
Despite the soggy weather, Jeff Brace and I were at Infoage. The good news: the MARCH/Evan area of the basement was dry. The bad news: the S.S. IXR took on...
All -- I got an email from someone in Landrum, SC (close to Greenville and Greer) regarding an Intel MDS system with disks, manuals and the 8080 pod. I don¹t...
Someone contacted me about donating some random Commodore items. The person lives in Media, PA and works in Exton, PA. It's only a box or two. Email me for the...
I salvaged a Canon StarWriter 60: portable electronic word processor. It's a kybd, small LCD (8 lines?), BubbleJet printer and 3.5" 720k floppy drive. Unless...
Not the newest one, but I know some people were looking for a Catweasel: Ebay ID: 250872450112 (rev. MK3) I use the MK4 Plus, but the MK3 will be cheaper. ...
<http://shop.ebay.com/auctionexpert/m.html?_nkw=FLEXOWRITER>http://shop.ebay.com/auctionexpert/m.html?_nkw=FLEXOWRITER This would have been the I/O device for...
All -- I¹ve been on-and-off trying to get my D+7A board working satisfactorily but I¹m having some challenges with the D/A side of the board. The A/D and ...
I received a phone call today from a fellow looking to sell a bunch of TV test equipment through the New Jersey Antique Radio club. He mentioned that he also...
Hi Everyone! My name is Chris, and I've been working on a Cray-1 re-creation project ( http://chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/) for fun in my free time. I ...
A fellow on the CP/M newsgroup posted some history I never knew: the Intel 8008 chip was actually designed and proposed by a customer who gave up on it...
... (emailing group..) I have a few servers that I have configured to host HTML pages in my garage. So, MARCH needs is a switch that will allow PC's to...
I received this note about my VAX 4000/300: https://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/VAX/ "Saw your page - man that brings back memories. My dad had an...
I was just yanking old credit card statements from my filing cabinet and I found some historical ones of interest Dec 1991: $647 to UUNET for a Telebit...
TRS 80 Video on AOL today http://www.aol.com/video/computer-could-only-hold-1-email/1091346265001/?ncid=wsc-video-cards-image-78112339001 WARNING: Before you...
I found a bunch of manuals and software in a curbside pile. There is the User Manual for a Mac SE30, a copy of The Print Shop (for mac), and a box from apple...
Off TOPIC Anyone with experience migrating Win 2003 web hosting to new server? I have two servers that I'd like to pull out of production, and move to two new...
... It would've been foolish not to! Nowadays most people (our kind of people anyway) know exactly how to design a small computer. In the early 1970s that...
Well I know I said in a previous post that building a replica Mark-8 would be time consuming and cost prohibitive, but somehow I've been bitten by the Scelbi...
