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Old Mac in Fair Lawn
by Christian Liendo 18 Aug '22

18 Aug '22

Not mine but someone may like this in NJ https://newjersey.craigslist.org/sys/d/fair-lawn-lot-of-vintage-apple-compu… 1. Apple Cinema Display Original (22-Inch) Specs Identifiers: Cinema Display - N/A -M5662 2. Apple Mac Server G4 533 (Digital Audio) Specs Identifiers: Digital Audio - M8182LL/A* - PowerMac3,4-1 1862 3.Apple Power Macintosh G5 2.7 DP (PCI-X) Specs Identifiers: Early 2005 - M9749LL/A - PowerMac7,3-A104) 2061 4.Apple wired keyboard model#A1243

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The TI Mini I rescued
by Herbert Johnson 17 Aug '22

17 Aug '22

> Kelly Leavitt : Wed Aug 17 16:22:58 UTC 2022 > Any interest in getting this old mini running? I'd like to work on it if there is any interest. > I believe it was a TI 990/10 with a CDC fixed disk and a CDC cartridge disk. > > Right now, I believe it is still in the warehouse somewhere. - Kelly I have an interest in seeing a TI 990 minicomputer (not microprocessor system but minicomputer). One of my first employers, established a data-conversion service using that model system. It's a late 70's early 80's business and factory-control computer. It's unlikely to turn up these days. So I'm interested. But I had to look up Kelly's reference: > [vcf-midatlantic] TI DS990/1 OS - Request from VCF Italia > Kelly Leavitt > Tue May 19 12:27:21 EDT 2020 > They use the same CPU as the TI/990 there should be some disks at infoage > from the TI/990 rescue I did from Wayne Verderber 8 years ago. Thanks to Kelly for getting back to this system. Hope he can find all the pieces in the Warehouse. Regards, Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT comcast DOT net

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Vintage Computer Festival West 2022 Videos
by Christian Liendo 15 Aug '22

15 Aug '22

I put these in a new tab on the spreadsheet that the group has. Vintage Computer Festival West 2022 https://youtu.be/Q4c3hzRjeisVCFW 2022 Channel: Chuck Hutchins Bits and Bytes from Vintage Computer Festival West 2022 https://youtu.be/CwExbBd-p1EVCFW 2022 Channel: bitfixer Vintage Computer Festival West 2022 Walkaround https://youtu.be/t8QUiaBfawsVCFW 2022 Channel: xarph just xarph

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Old Video Game Advertisements
by Dave McGuire 14 Aug '22

14 Aug '22

On 8/8/22 14:11, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > Many out there poo poo the idea > But the same people think 80s computing is not worth > their time either. Just to jump in...I think 80s computing is/was fantastic. What rubs me the wrong way is this widespread perception that it was always only about games and nothing else. It disrespects the entire industry, its achievements, and its people to reduce the groundbreaking work that transformed society to toys for tots. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

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VCF straight 8
by David Gesswein 14 Aug '22

14 Aug '22

Someone emailed me about problem with the VCF straight 8 switches acting flaky recently. Was going to reply but I can't find the email now. Could you resend the email? Or I'm just delusional.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Pentium Pro CPUs
by Dave McGuire 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

On August 13, 2022 10:57:22 AM madodel via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > ---------- > Pentium Pro CPUs > From: madodel madodel(a)mac.com > Date: Aug 13, 10:57 AM > To: vcf-midatlantic vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org > > Anyone interested in Pentium Pro CPUs pulled from servers after replaced by > Pentium II Overdrives many years back? I have 4 of them. Free to a good > home if anyone can use them. > > SL22T Intel Pentium Pro 200 MHz Kb80521ex200 256k Yes please, I'd like to have them. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

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Old Video Game Advertisements
by Christian Liendo 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

For some of us this is a great site. I am enjoying this a lot. https://retrocgads.tumblr.com/

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Apple IIgs to Duodisk cables
by Bob Shuster 12 Aug '22

12 Aug '22

Before I go crazy trying to find these online, does anyone have some spares, or can recommend a source? I have two Duodisk units that I want to connect to an Apple IIgs, so that’s DB-19 to DB-25 F/F. (And I guess this would also work with my Apple II computers as well.) Ultimately I’ll just turn these around and include the cables with the Duodisks. - Bob Shuster

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IIGS expectations at launch
by John Heritage 12 Aug '22

12 Aug '22

Just curious As an (80s) Atari user the IIGS looks like an amazing next gen upgrade for the Apple II line. The kind of thing the kid in me wishes the Atari 8bit received mid life. When the IIGS was launched did Apple II users see this as a commitment to the long haul for the platform or did it feel a bit like a compromise or was it otherwise disappointing? Inonoenin retrospect the 2.8 MHz artificial limitation on the CPU is a hint for the compromise narrative - but did it feel that way back then? Thanks.

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Help! I cant get asciiexpress to work with my II Plus
by Dan FitzGerald 12 Aug '22

12 Aug '22

I have an Apple II Plus, and have been been having limited success in trying to get asciiexpress.net to work with it. I can successfully load _some_ games (Dig-Dug and Montezuma's Revenge), but I cannot get the vast majority of game titles to load. And I have been having zero luck getting the disk image downloads to work; usually, it will start the self-extractor app and then give me a checksum error before failing. I had heard somewhere that interference from other cables could be the culprit and that using a Monster aux cable had good results, so I picked one up. No luck, unfortunately. Has anybody else experienced similar problems, and if so, how did you resolve them? Regards, Dan FitzGerald They/Them/Theirs http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger

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