Back in October (or was it early November... I cannot remember) our town
finally had it's first hamfest. Actually, it was mostly ham stuff, but
there was one person who had one table of nuthin' but classics... Got the
whole table for $35... Then two days later, I went to this person's house
and fixed his internet setup -- he paid me $35 for it, so the computers
cost me just less than 1.5 hours of *Easy* work.
Anyway, here's what I got:
Vic20, datassette -- pretty grungy but he said it worked. (not tested.)
16K Std. Basic CoCo2 with the better keyboard -- but the keyboard was shot.
(Keyboard felt like someone dumped sand & Coke in the keys - Yuck!)
Rebuilt the keyboard, upgraded to 64K & Ext. Basic -- nice machine now.
Also came with the getting started & Std. Basic manuals.
A broken TS1000 (bad keyboard cable) and a boxed TS1000 & boxed 16K
expansion module, with a couple programs on tape & a couple pgm books. (not
tested)
And for the crowning glory: A complete (hardware, software, and books)
Coleco ADAM computer! I don't recall hearing this machine mentioned on the
list as of yet (but I could be wrong), but it's an interesting machine! 80K
Ram, 4Mhz Z-80, built-in 10cps daisy-wheel printer, all of the original
dox, 2 keyboards, joysticks and a single 256K digital datassette drive. The
drive allowed random access to the information on the tape (tho it was
slower than floppy, for sure). It also had a copy of ADAMCalc w/dox, and a
boxed, unopened extra blank digital tape, and an extra keyboard. I have not
tested this yet, but it looks to be in perfect working order.
This thing would even handle all of the original ColecoVision cartridges,
so it should make a nice game box as well!
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After finding the time to test more of the stuff I have, I'll publish an
updated want/trade list. (prolly after the holidays.)
Well, that's my best finds for a little while... Happy Christmas & A Merry
New Year!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger Merchberger | If at first you don't succeed,
Programmer, NorthernWay | nuclear warhead disarmament should *not*
zmerch_at_northernway.net | be your first career choice.
Received on Sat Dec 20 1997 - 14:57:51 GMT