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I picked these up two years ago when I was at Mendelson's in Dayton Ohio during their closeout sale. No idea what an NCR 6091 is, but sounds like a tape drive? Not sure if the software contained is useful to anyone or not? Assuming the tapes are still readable of course, which I have no way...

I have a Mac SE FDHD whose CRT was broken prior to my acquiring it. Broken as in (from memory) the neck of the tube being broken...you can see specks on the front of the screen where it presumably imploded and something impacted it and damaged the phosphor coating. If you turn it on, it...

I found someone interested in an IBM 5394 unit I came across recently. They made me an offer on it, so I went to see about what it would cost to ship. It weighs 15Lbs and is 16x17x5", guessing 18Lbs and 22x25x11 for estimating shipping costs. I'm in VA, they are in NM. Cheapest option USPS...

Dropped by the local recycling place yesterday to dispose of a couple of dead LCD monitors, and took a look at their pile of computers. They occasionally have something interesting, and will let you have it for $10. Well, I found this interesting beige IBM box with a floppy sticking out of the...

Our family spent the last week in Ohio hanging out with family. Made a trip Monday to Dayton to check out Mendelson's, an amazing surplus place that is going out of business. Unfortunately, the part that was apparently the most amazing was their 3rd floor electronics department, and I was told...

Spent some quality time today playing with my "new" AT&T/NCR 3430. Tried installing NT Advanced Server 3.1 but ran into problems (bad disk image I acquired?) but got Workstation 3.1 working. After a bit of tinkering I installed NT WS 3.51 onto another partition. Got it running and updated...

I recently picked up a bunch of computer and related items from a Craigslist listing and ended up with a bunch of computer books, mostly dated 1995-2002 or so. My son and I went through and pulled out some that interested us, but there are still a lot that need a new home...like roughly 5 or 6...

I recently acquired a pair of very unique looking machines...AT&T 3430 servers. I can only assume these were produced around the time when AT&T and NCR merged or something (haven't researched that timeline and even wikipedia seemed a little vague) as they say AT&T on the front and "NCR an AT&T...

I ended up with three binders with manuals for various Apple II software packages, all photocopied from the originals. If anyone is interested, they are free for the cost of shipping. If no one wants them, they will get pitched. All but one I found online already, and the other I scanned...

I have an original IBM AT motherboard I have arranged for a sale to another forum member. Found a box big enough but not too tall...but I don't have any ESD bags big enough! Is there anything else that would work to protect it? Or would it be safe without? I seem to recall a HD manufacturer...

Does anyone out there have the driver and software for a 200Mb HiFD disk drive? I picked up an internal drive some years ago on ebay (type that is missing the bezel designed to go into an IBM PC), but no disks yet. I recently managed to acquire an external Sony drive on ebay, along with some...

I have two older laptops here that are headed to recycling, thought I would post in case someone is interested in either of them for any parts. Looking for the cost of shipping, and maybe a couple bucks for my time, but certainly not much! I just hate to recycle something that might be usable...

I have a stack of computer game boxes that I was given. I think I posted here a good while back, but got no response. At this point, they need to find a new home, or I'm going to have to trash them, which I'd rather not do! If you want them, they are yours (one or all) for the cost of...

There's an auction house near me that has auctions pretty frequently. I dropped in today at lunchtime to see if I might could snag a couple of things that had caught my eye, and lo and behold, there sat an IBM Portable PC model 5155! A little dirty and maybe mildewey looking, but it was all...

Anybody in want of an audio cassette deck? I have a JVC KD-V300 here...silver, but looks like a later model with autoreverse, Dolby C, etc. Looks like it needs new belts though. If anyone is interested, drop me a line. Only looking for shipping costs...hate to toss it in the trash! Thanks...

Someone has passed on to me a variety of old computer items, and among them are some Amiga software boxes. Nothing in the boxes (other than a registration card in one of them I noticed). I may have the disks in another box, but I will keep those...though some look like they may have gotten...

I helped someone out by putting together an XT-IDE rev2 board. I set it up and loaded basic boot files onto a DOM flash drive using a 486 machine, then tested it out with scandisk, Norton, etc. on both the 486 and my IBM 5155. Everything worked great. Shipped it to them, and when they put it...

Did anyone else see this? http://www.pcworld.com/article/3018315/storage/star-trek-creators-lost-words-recovered-from-old-floppies.html Seems to me like it might have been easier to try to get the old computer working! Though I guess even then you have to figure out how to transfer the...

I'm working on soldering together an XT-IDE rev2 board. When finished, I want to do some testing on it and the Disk on Module I have for it, to be as sure as possible that it is 100% working properly. Are there any preferred utilities to give it a workout and test for errors? Thanks, Wesley

There has been a little talk of late about the Sperry PC and the Leading Edge Model M, both being manufactured by Mitsubishi. Long before my time there, a prior employer of mine was a Unisys/Sperry shop, and had one (or maybe more) of the Sperry PC's. I think they may have had a special card...