Re: Old computers and printers being dumped! Chicago IL
- From: Craig Tiano <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:37:19 -0400
Ah...CP/M, MP/M, TurboDos. Happy memories of an earlier time before
the brain cells became worried about things like mortgages and "real
work that pays money".
I sold my Imsai system about 2 years ago. I did so after *almost*
winning Dell's "oldest computer system" contest. The rules said that
they'd accept an original receipt -or- a warrantee card. I had the
warrantee card, but it wasn't stamped with an actual date (only my
hand-written-in-1976 "August 15, 1976" date), so they invalidated my
entry. It would have been nice to win that $25K worth of new Dell
servers and laptops, but that wasn't enough to really raise a stink
and send the "threatening lawyer letter".
In the early days of 8" floppies, the cheapest way to get blanks was
to ask the mainframe guys for IBM patch disks sent out to boot up
their controllers. IBM disks were serialized from the factory. On my
shelf, I own disk #8080.
Craig
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:30:26 -0500, "GPE"
<See_my_website_for_email@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Ah, yeah... Old IMSAI 8080's.
Wrote lots of code for them old puppies. All's gone - except I still do
have a couple old 8" CPM floppys. Once in awhile I break one out for a
laugh.
Don't know of a pin based on an 1802 -- that was pretty much a forgotten
about CPU.
-- Ed
"Ron Strom" <ronstr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I still have a couple IMSAI 8080's. One fully working, dual 8" floppy
drives, ADM-3A terminal, dozens of S-100 cards, etc. Also a couple of
Compupro systems and hundreds of 8" floppys full of software.
I don't know why I hang on to this old crap. From what I've seen
they're worth some serious bucks on ebay at various times but I'm just
too lazy.
BTW, wasn't there a pin that used the 1802?
--
Ron -- CARGPB7 -- (Change hot to ice to email)
In article <bP5Ig.9190$W01.2011@dukeread08>,
See_my_website_for_email@xxxxxxx says...
I had an old RCA 1802 based Cosmac Elf sitting at my parents house for[Snip...]
many
years. Parents were moving asked what I wanted to do with this old
'junk'.
Heck, I thought I pitched that old stuff many years ago.
Cleaned it up, made sure it worked -- and put it on Ebay. Got $350 for
that
old beast... $200 more than I paid for it!
-- Ed
"guinness" <guinnessNH@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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now if only I can find a cheap or free Amiga.
If you came across my yard sale last week...You could have got my Amiga
500 (been sitting in its original box for 20 years) for next to
nothing.
I still have it...but I'm not shipping it for under $45 shipped.
tim (NH)
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