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Finally redid my decade old inventory

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Micom 2000

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>>> EDIT APRIL 15
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There has been overwhelmng interest expressed by PMs since I mentioned much of my collection was on the block. I have attempted to answer most of those PMs. I now realise it was premature since many of these machines hadn't been used in many years altho most had been working machines originally. That means firing them up and/or testing or repairing minor or major faults. Then there is also the problem of deciding their value. Altho I am retired, there are many things that occupy my time.

A house over 100 years old i've rescued needing repars and painting and a large yard which includes flower beds and a large
vegetable garden which always supplies more than I need, no matter how I plan it. Retirement shouldn't be taxing.

So that means I will eventually get to the machines of your interest, but it won't be quick. Should you in the interem acqure the machines you desire, or the price I ask is unacceptable, no problem. View my collection as a possible source.

Thank-You for your interest. But I will proceed with the most eaisly dealt-with computers first and contact those who expressed interest and offer a price to them, which if not acceptable will be offered to others who expressed interest.

Thank You

>>> EDIT. MARCH 29 <<<
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Just to clarify. I am reducing my collection and not all are for sale. Those I'm keeping I'll mark as such.


Well I finally upgraded the inventory of my collecton after not having done so for numerous years. Erasing some and adding others. Here it is.

APPLE
Apple ll+ w/ many cards and mods from a dedicated appler KEEPING
3 Apple lle (extended) at least one with the desirable extruded Apple logo
Apple lle (Platinum)
Apple llGS KEEPING

2 duodisk FDD, 4 Apple FDD, 2 "other" FDD
Imagewriter1 dot-mat printer, Thunder(--?) scanner attachment
2 mono Apple III monitors | WHICH OF THESE 3 I'M KEEPING IS
Apple IIe Color Monitor | UNDECIDED
Apple RGB monitor |
Mac Color monitor KEEPING
PCWare (nib) Para i-face with manual
Super Serial card and manual KEEPING
SCSI card KEEPING

MACINTOSH
Mac 512 wth installed memory card and SCSI HD adapter KEEPING
Mac Plus 4meg, Radius FPD adapter card for mac+
Mac SE
Mac SE30
Mac Classic
2 Mac llci KEEPING 1
LC III
PowerBook 145 NEEDS WORK POSSIBLY INTERNAL BATTERY-ALSO A PARTS MACHINE AVAILABLE
Power Mac 7100/66AV KEEPING
Radius mono Full Page Display
Apple AudioVision Display (for 7100) KEEPING
Other Mac compatible monitors
4 extended KB, numerous ADB kbs and mice
4 external FDD
2 external HDD
2 Apple CDRom KEEPING
Numerous Mac Modems including 3 Teleport Full Fax
Laserwriter ll NTX Printer
Personal Laser Printer KEEPING
Imagewriter ll w/appletalk
Scanner accessory for imagewriter ( Thunder-(something))
8 Appleport network connectors

ATARI 8Bit
2600 Heavy 6er plus a large amount of cartridges
Baby Rainbow
800xl (2)
130XE KEEPING
65xeGS (NIB w/manuals, joy and lightgun)

Peripherals
850 interface KEEPING
810 fdd
1050 fdd (3)
1050 fdd in box
Tape player
Touch Tablets
numerous Joysticks
Paddles
Wico Trackball
2 Wireless Quickshot setups
2600 Carts x 100 (?)
8bit - numerous carts some NIB shrinkwrapped

Atari ST
STm 520 with external HD and PSU
STfm 520 (x1040)
STf (2) 1040 Marpet Xtra-Ram Deluxe 4megs
ST Mega 4 KEEPING

Peripherals ST KEEPING Most, Some exceptions
SM124 (2) Hirez monitors KEEPING 1
SC1224 (2) Color Monitors KEEPING 1
Marpet Xtra-Ram Deluxe 4meg upgrade AVAILABLE
SF314 Ext. FDD (2)
HDD (RLL shoebox)
Atari mouse
2 Eclipse mouse (Amiga switch)
VideoKey
Monitor Master
ICD Link2
Magic-sac MAC Emu (2) AVAILABLE
Monster stereo cartridge
Replay 4 sampler cart
Cyber VCR- video sequencer
Many utility programs

Atari Portfolo with most all available adapters. KEEPING

CBM
Vic20 (2) plus a number of utility program cartridges.
Vic20 IN box
C64 (3) BGE,BRN, White One like-new in box including fabric cover
C64 Custom metal case
C64C (2) need work
C128
C128D
C128DCR KEEPING
PC10 w/1402 monitor (lost adapter)
PC20
2 Amiga 1000 w/sidecars
Amiga 2000
Amiga 3000 KEEPING
Peripherals
Vic20 1541 white
1541 (2) bge,wh
1541C new in box
2 1571 fdd
Datasette
Koala Pad
PowerPad w/ 2 overlays &carts
Com. Printer # 801
Com. Printer # 802
4 port game expander- 40/80 column conv.
Speech Synth
VicModem Cartridge
Commodore AutoModem
X1541 cable KEEPING
Monitors
1702 x2 KEEPING 1
1802
1802 (goldstar)
1930
2002 KEEPING

TANDY
TRS mod 2 (CPM / TRDos) 3 HDD(the big 5meg ones), 1 ext. 8" FDD, 2 modems
Tandy 1000SX Tandy CS5 and CS11 monitors, RS mini printer
CoCo 1
CoCo 2 (x2)
CoCo 3 Cart adapter & dual FDD, tape drive, 2 joy OS 9 Programs, Scripsit cart KEEPING

IBM
2 PCjr 1 monitor several add-on Sections, PCjr Joystick KEEPING 1. many parts available
5150 PC w/Intel386 Inboard, Plus hardcard KEEPING
5150 PC
5160 XT Quadram card w gamer multi i/o
5170 AT w/IBM ( ? ) EGA card.
PS1 2011 (286)
PS1 2023 (386 ?)
2 PS1 2033 (386)
PS2 8530 (XT)
PS2 8530 (286)
PS2 8550z (386 ?)
PS2 8557 (386 SCSI) KEEPING
PS2 8560 (286tower) (needs extras)
PS2 8570 (386 25mhz, 2.88 FDD) KEEPING
PS2 8580 (x2) (386 tower) KEEPING 1
PS2 8590 (486 SCSI with OS2 Warp installed) KEEPING
PS2 8595 (486) (Some trace solderng to get it workng)
Ambra 486 DX4
Ambra Local Bus (486 ?) KEEPING

Monitors
5151 Mono
5153 CGA (x2) KEEPING 1
PS1 SVGS
PS/2

OTHERS
Adam. full setup with Colecovision unit. Some Adam carts and many more C-V ones
Amstrad 1640 (works but no kb or mouse. ARGGH)
NEXT CSlab 68040 CPU KEEPING
NEXT Mono w/montor KEEPING
Epson HX-10 (CPM)(no kb, no monitor)
Kaypro 2 (CPM)
Kaypro 2X (CPM)
Zenith H/Z89 with H-77 8" FDD KEEPING/FREE. I believe this was the base-camp computer of the successful 1982
Canadian Everest Expedition. It should go to a canadian who would pass it on to an eventional Canadian IT Museum.

Zenith ZFA-161 Luggable w/pop-up fdds. All components on a backplane KEEPING
DEC Rainbow 100+ w/VR241-A color monitor and cable adaptor KEEPING
DEC Pro 350 VR201 monitor
Osborne 1
TI99/4 2Joys
NEC Prospeed 286 Laptop w/ batteries and PS
Compaq Portable ll (red Plasma display)
2 Grid 1530 286 Laptops with red plasma display, Several slide-in modules. KEEPING
2 Dauphin DTR-1 with numerous external fdds KEEPING
HP OmniBook 4000C W/internal IR (works with all Omnibooks AND the 95lx) KEEPING
HP 95lx w/cable nterface (thanks T.) KEEPING
Sharp PC3000 pocket XT KEEPING
Voelkner-Craig 404 terminal (made in London,Ont)

Many other xx86 clones kept for interesting features.

PRINTERS|

QMS PS-410 Laser (needs repair)
Okidata OL400 Laser (x2)
General Laser (needs feeder)
Sekosha serial (for Commodore)
Corona term/typewriter
24 pin Roland Raven
HP Deskjet (original)
HP Deskjet 500 + manuals
Epson LQ1500 24pin wide carriage(sideways)
Epson ActionPrinter 2000
Epson FX86e
Star NX10
Brother HR20 with carriage
Tandem Facit 5540
and others

MONITORS
NEC Monitors
JB 1201M (A) w/a-v in/out RCA plugs 75ohm-High(imped) switch
Multisync JC-1401-3PA (original MS)
II KEEPING
2A KEEPING


Compaq mono Hi-Rez VGA
Taxan multi color/mono ttl/ana hi-rez GONE
Tatung hi-rez mono ana/dig
Quad EGA
Tatung CGA (EGA?)
Magnavox Professional VGA 7bm749 Q74 I KEEPING
other monos

1 double-card ega controller, numerous other cards
unlisted HDs, Fdds and parts (must inventory)

Many of the computers are on my to-do list. Repairable but not functonng for some reason or other. Possibly neglect.

This list doesn't include my newer computers or monitors etc.

Among other thngs I also have about 10 Local bus motherboards, an xt and 386 MB, and numerrous cables and other stuff. Most of this is avalable for sale, except for a few treasured machines. PM me for any of the above or items you're lookng for. includng the monitor update above, I'm collapsing my collecton. My pain is your gain.

Lawrence
 
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In case the silence is throwing you off, wow. Very large list of very fine machines you have there :) I was impressed when I first saw it, still impressed, and as most folks a little speechless. I miss having access to my collection lol.. I need to get my stuff set back up.
 
Wow! That's one hell of a collection! Which begs the question..... where do you find room for all of it? If your like me, there in just about every room in the house.
 
I hope that's a Compaq Portable III and not a II; at least that's what the keyboard I sent you is for.

Yes, I saw your post in the Portable II/Mercedes thread; return address should be on the parcel, if there's a problem email me off-list.

Quite a collection for sure. what arrangements *did* you finally make for the afterlife? I sure wouldn't want to be your executor...
 
I was part of a group of collecters which was attempting to set up a computer museum in Toronto. The group fell apart just a few years before my pension kicked in. When it did I bought a hundred-year-old house where my elderly sister lived, in my natal province of Manitoba at a ridiculously low price cause it needed some improvements and hauled much of my collection out here. I could never have hoped to buy a house in any of the cities on my pension income. The house is gradually coming in shape and now has a new roof via a government grant, the basement has been bailed out and much of the broken or cracked windows replaced, plus a multitude of other stuff. It was a well-built house.

In Toronto I got by with a 1BR apartment and several storage rentals. I abandoned about 1/2 of what I had. In my 2story house I now have unfettered space but some rooms are a bit cramped. Of course my inventory doesn't include the multitude of books, parts, cables and software which doubles the space needed. Nor some of my other interests which also take up considerable space.

At least I no longer have to throw a mattress on a bed of computers and now have real coffee and end tables. A couch is unneeded and takes up too much space. Fortunately I have no significant other now to complicate things.

I had thought much of this as a means of topping up my income a bit. I did pretty good for the first couple of years but then the market fell out for vintage stuff and now of course the economy has gone into melt-down. I had also thought that I could use some of my handyman skills in this town where most of the populace is elderly but found in these close-knit small towns work goes to relatives or close family friends.

My executor is my nephew who's in Wpg. and a fairly understanding guy and I worry about this. But I'm in reasonably good health and hope to last long enough to reduce the volume considerably. Otherwise I fear the town dump may wind up being the recepticle of much of this plenty.

Lawrence
 
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MikeS said:
I hope that's a Compaq Portable III and not a II; at least that's what the keyboard I sent you is for.
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Holy S**T, you finally sent it? I figured they'd have to dig ol' L up and rebury it with him LOL

Quite a collection for sure. what arrangements *did* you finally make for the afterlife? I sure wouldn't want to be your executor...
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Even though Micom is probably going to outlive most of us, give your executor my name and number and I'll find good homes for all that fine equipment :)
 
Druid6900 said:
Holy S**T, you finally sent it? I figured they'd have to dig ol' L up and rebury it with him LOL

Even though Micom is probably going to outlive most of us, give your executor my name and number and I'll find good homes for all that fine equipment :)
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After about 2 years I had given up on the KB frontpiece. I was surprised and pleased when I discovered it at the post office.

Your estate services has always been foremost in my mind. I think I might have already given him your address. I'll have to assure myself that I did. I'm starting to get things in order again somewhat. I'll likely be e-mailing you before long about the EGA monitor. I figure it was likely the AT battery had died. I also want to get HDDs working on the PC-10s which lie disassembled on one of my workbenches.


Ohh, I forgot to include the Osborne 1 in the inventory and have corrected it.

Lawrence
 
You could bequeath the collection to me, L. Problem solved. (Course, you'll prolly have to leave me the house too, so's I'll have someplace to keep it all).

--T
 
Sadly and shamefully, no. As a result, many that I had once got working have quit, whether from battery failure or some other problem that I once knew. For example my NEXT computers require a password and altho I put stickes on them and others, they invariably come off and dissappear. Gremlins get them ! I hate using marking pencils and defacing the cabinets. I know there are other methods which are less intrusive, but haven't initiated a method yet.

I should keep a spec file on each. At one time I could usually remember their features but I must admit that as I get older my memory banks are increasingly expanded and harder to access. I absolutely refuse to admit my memory is failing. After 72 years of memory accumulation is it any wonder I have problems at times accessing particular banks of neurons ? I know 40-year-olds who can't remember what happened last week. One of the expandng IT sciences is organising access to much of the data on terrabyte hard drives. The human brain on the other hand can easily access many multiple times that amount of data.

Dementia(Altheimers disease) however does destroy synapses and that is a different problem.

Lawrence
 
Don't sweat it, Lawrence (It being turning our little toys on once in awhile). I only have about 10 various Epsons and Necs and I can't keep those nicad puppies at the correct charge level, no way. Just doing one would be a full time job. Worse, I accidentally rediscovered the horror of over-charging the nicads. I had a Zenith laptop with those HUGE battery packs. Well, it ended up under my bed still plugged into the charger. Of course, like a week later, I find this literally exploded case. Took me days to figure out what had happened. <<Oh ya, I do remember reading about that you can overcharge the nicads, he thinks to himself>>.
 
from paper52

from paper52

The problem is storage. How do you do it. I have only a few models and am already running into that problem.
I have some apple performas, not really collectable, 631's and 6116, as well as brother word processors etc. but even the small numbers i have are hard to find room for. well thanks.
 
Lawrence,

It is almost a fun game to see how many of those I have used in my 25+ year history of computing ..

Most of the list I've seen and touched once already. I've never seen your Grid machines, but after a few years of occasionally writing debug programs and dissecting BIOS for your Yahoo! group I feel like I own one. ;-0

I'd like to have that kind of variety, but there just isn't time. It's a great retirement hobby, assuming we all make it that far. (I'm working toward that at least.)


Mike
 
C64 Custom metal case
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hmmm? got any pics?

and try to keep those computers away from the land-fill, especially the Commodores. i hope you are aware that theres a death penalty in throwing away Commodore equipment? ;)
 
Well, as I've mentoned, one of these Canadian Post Offce rebadged Grids is yours for the asking whenever you want and have cleaned out your basement, just for the help you've given the platform. Hell if Hargle could solve the BIOS defined hdd model restrictions he could likely have his pick of many of my duplicates. I do have access with the SCSI module, to other peripherals, including HDDs but that takes up the same space as my battery.

Hargle has the hope of the Grid 15xx forum and others on his shoulders. Damn I'm glad I'm not that smart. Just kidding Hargle. But hoping your efforts keep enlivening us. Merci.

Lawrence

mbbrutman said:
Lawrence,

It is almost a fun game to see how many of those I have used in my 25+ year history of computing ..

Most of the list I've seen and touched once already. I've never seen your Grid machines, but after a few years of occasionally writing debug programs and dissecting BIOS for your Yahoo! group I feel like I own one. ;-0

I'd like to have that kind of variety, but there just isn't time. It's a great retirement hobby, assuming we all make it that far. (I'm working toward that at least.)


Mike
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I intend to have some of his BIOS hacking goodness rub off on me. It also helps that he is just about in the neighborhood ...
 
that collection is simply amazing. if it was mine, i wouldn't part with any of it. i'd start a museum.
 
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