Hey all - Jeff here (aka Bags). Not looking for a lot, but figured I'd throw this out there incase anyone happens to have stuff in their stash and could bring it along. I'll only be at VCF on Friday, but can make arrangements if anyone has any of this. Best bet is to email me directly at jeffg@junknet.net if you have any of this: #1 TI Silentwriter 700 Power Brick/Adapter (actually the one I have is a Silent 700/Travelmate 1200, 20vac). Looks like a typical smaller black wall-rat with rounded corners, and a 3 pin molex plug. I think the part # is 2310442-0001. I could use a couple other parts if someone has a busted one. #2 Commodore PET 8032 Keyboard (I'd take a busted parts unit with the number pad intact). The one I'm looking for is the one that has only 3 columns of buttons on the numeric keypad. #3 Really really reaching out there, but I have an At&t Touchtel Terminal (aka At&t Personal Terminal 510) that I'd love to find a keyboard (and keyboard garage) for. It should be branded At&t, have a flat plug simliar to the one used on the IBM Model M keyboards (keyboard side), and be fairly narrow, almost laptop sized. This shows the terminal and what the keyboard would look like: http://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/AT&T_Personal_Terminal_510. Also if anyone knows anything about it and any info that I could use to adapt a normal keyboard, I'd love to know. This particular unit is near and dear to me! I think thats about it - stuff I'm bringing to sell include a 19" SVGA monitor (CRT), 2x HP ColorPro Plotters, some NextStation part no:1477 power supplies (pizza boxes), and possibly a Zenith Lunch box computer that needs some love. Open to trades! Jeff aka Bags
I guess I can add to this that I would definitely be on the lookout for IIgs upgrades. All I have right now is a stock 1 meg ROM03 and I would have definite interest in a ram card, scsi card, or accelerator.
Joseph, I have 3rd party ram cards, Apple SCSI cards and a zip gsx and transwarp gs. The transwarp is in one of the machines running in the exhibit this weekend. We can talk when I pick you up Friday morning (and over the next three days of course!) Tony Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 29, 2017, at 10:02 AM, Joseph Marlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I guess I can add to this that I would definitely be on the lookout for IIgs upgrades. All I have right now is a stock 1 meg ROM03 and I would have definite interest in a ram card, scsi card, or accelerator.
I guess I can add to this that I would definitely be on the lookout for IIgs upgrades. All I have right now is a stock 1 meg ROM03 and I would have definite interest in a ram card, scsi card, or accelerator.
I wish there was a ~$60ish CF card or SD card board for the IIGS! - Ethan
If you want simple and inexpensive the sddisk][ form Plamen in Bulgaria hooks directly to the disk II controller card. It only uses .dsk images and does 16 of them. Shipped from Bulgaria it's $90. I own two of them, they will be at VCF if you want to see them in action. They aren't as versatile as the floppy emu or cffa but they are much less expensive and usually in stock. http://a2heaven.com/webshop/index.php?rt=product/product&product_id=124 Tony Sent from my iPhone On Mar 29, 2017, at 10:40 AM, Ethan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I guess I can add to this that I would definitely be on the lookout for IIgs upgrades. All I have right now is a stock 1 meg ROM03 and I would have definite interest in a ram card, scsi card, or accelerator.
I wish there was a ~$60ish CF card or SD card board for the IIGS!
- Ethan
I actually already have a Floppy Emu banging around that I got for basically free a while back, and I have external floppy drives and ADT anyhow. Actually, I also have it set up to boot off of LocalTalk from one of my powermacs. I really just want a SCSI card so that I can have some permanent standalone storage that's also period-accurate and also literally just so I can play with synthlab-- I can install it on my AppleTalk share, but it turns out synthlab won't start up with AppleTalk active. Thanks for the suggestion, though!
If you want simple and inexpensive the sddisk][ form Plamen in Bulgaria hooks directly to the disk II controller card.
I hear you joseph. I prefer using the actual hardware from the given timeframe. I like the modern solutions to help me get the images from Internet to floppy media (or hard drives) and for quick access to a given title so I can test it on a certain machine and then transfer to floppy. I also love having all my diagnostic software handy in one place (even though I've got actual floppies of all of them anyway!) I was actually responding to Ethan's email about wishing there was a ~$60ish cf or sd card for the IIgs. Tony Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 29, 2017, at 11:57 AM, Joseph Marlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I actually already have a Floppy Emu banging around that I got for basically free a while back, and I have external floppy drives and ADT anyhow. Actually, I also have it set up to boot off of LocalTalk from one of my powermacs. I really just want a SCSI card so that I can have some permanent standalone storage that's also period-accurate and also literally just so I can play with synthlab-- I can install it on my AppleTalk share, but it turns out synthlab won't start up with AppleTalk active.
Thanks for the suggestion, though!
If you want simple and inexpensive the sddisk][ form Plamen in Bulgaria hooks directly to the disk II controller card.
"I wish there was a ~$60ish CF card or SD card board for the IIGS!" $100 cash may get you a MicroDrive/Turbo for the IIgs if you ask really nicely. :-) Let me know off list and I could bring one. You could however piece together an older CFFA or MicroDrive for about $60 in parts. You would need a proto PCB for a backbone, but the rest is pretty standard parts. I also have a broken CFFA is you want a fun project repairing it. Henry S. Courbis Office Toll Free: (800) REACTIVE (732-2848) Office/Mobile Direct: (856) 779-1900 www.ReActiveMicro.com <http://www.ReactiveMicro.com> - Sales, Support, and News, Our Headquarters on the Internet ReActiveMicro.com/wiki - Support, Software, Manuals, and History. Create your own page today! Facebook.com/reactivemicrousa - Our Social Media Outlet and Support On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I hear you joseph. I prefer using the actual hardware from the given timeframe. I like the modern solutions to help me get the images from Internet to floppy media (or hard drives) and for quick access to a given title so I can test it on a certain machine and then transfer to floppy. I also love having all my diagnostic software handy in one place (even though I've got actual floppies of all of them anyway!)
I was actually responding to Ethan's email about wishing there was a ~$60ish cf or sd card for the IIgs. Tony
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On Mar 29, 2017, at 11:57 AM, Joseph Marlin via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I actually already have a Floppy Emu banging around that I got for basically free a while back, and I have external floppy drives and ADT anyhow. Actually, I also have it set up to boot off of LocalTalk from one of my powermacs. I really just want a SCSI card so that I can have some permanent standalone storage that's also period-accurate and also literally just so I can play with synthlab-- I can install it on my AppleTalk share, but it turns out synthlab won't start up with AppleTalk active.
Thanks for the suggestion, though!
If you want simple and inexpensive the sddisk][ form Plamen in Bulgaria hooks directly to the disk II controller card.
You would need a proto PCB for a backbone, but the rest is pretty standard parts.
I'll have about 80 or so Apple II protoboards with me at VCF East, over in the IXR hackerspace, for the "My First Apple II Interface" workshop. $10 each, real hard gold plated edge connector, just a bunch of HASL finished plated through holes, sturdy FR4 with proper edge chamfer. You know, like they used to make protoboards :) Thanks, Jonathan
I was actually responding to Ethan's email about wishing there was a ~$60ish cf or sd card for the IIgs. Tony
ADT is the best thing ever, and I do have a 3.5" and 5.25" on my IIGS :-) I guess there isn't a huge benefit to hard drive on the IIGS since most multidisk games won't install to it? Is that why people are doing floppy disk emulation? - Ethan
I get the impression that it's mostly that there are plenty of relatively cheap existing floppy options so things tend to skew that way. But there are plenty of hard drive options, including IDE and CF adapters as well as SCSI to SD. Having a fixed drive becomes really useful for a lot of stuff, especially working with anything in GSOS as for the later system revisions you really can't run a full system install without one. While true that most games are booters-- and frequently ones made with custom toolsets at that-- anything more productivity oriented can really stand a fixed drive.
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