Vacation Finds...

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Fri Mar 6 08:10:25 1998

I just bought CMB 8032 complete with a 4040 drive and CMB (rebadged Diablo
630) printer and a Novation CAT accoustic MODEM. I got all the original
disks and manuals and everything else with it including the warranty
papers. I got Commodore BASIC, SuperSpell, Word Pro 5 Plus, something
called Jinsam and a bunch of other stuff that I haven't figured out yet.
Believe it or not, I bought this from a NASA auction last week.

  Joe

At 03:43 PM 3/5/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I had a working CMB 8032, and one day a couple years ago, saw an ad in
>the paper "Wanted: CBM 8032". A couple in their 70's placed it. The
>wife is a writer, and not a computer user, and only knew how to use her
>CBM 8032 which was 15 years old and failing. I brought my 8032 (which I
>had set up in my office, after it fell from a high shelf and put a dent
>in the hood of my car) to them, swapped it out, swapped roms (mine had
>some sort of add-on board) and tore-down, cleaned, and re-assemble the
>keyboard for them. and off they went. I think they did have all the
>manuals and stuff for the computer, disk drives, and printers.
>
>alas, I don't have any PET computers anymore.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ethan Dicks [SMTP:erd_at_infinet.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 1998 3:28 PM
>> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
>> Subject: Re: Vacation Finds...
>>
>> >
>> > Have been on vacation since Friday and still have a couple days to
>> > go... From the thrift store outlook in the area things are
>> improving
>> > again (I guess people are starting their pre-spring cleaning)
>> >
>> > What I passed up on...
>> > PET 8032, 4040 dual drive.
>>
>> Agggggh! I'd *love* to replace my long-lost 8032. It was one of the
>> item
>> burgled from my house a while back, along with an Amiga 500 and a rare
>> A500
>> to 8-bit ISA adapter from Canada called "The Wedge". I _really_ wish
>> I
>> had that... it was built for a WX-1 MFM controller (or a DTC 5160 RLL
>> controller), but would work perfectly for an 8-bit Ethernet card.
>>
>> Anyway, rambling aside, where are you on vacation and is the PET still
>> there?
>>
>> -ethan
>>
>> ObBIO: 31, Male, collect 1802/6502/68000/PDP-8/PDP-11/VAX/SPARC.
>> Started
>> with the PET and Elf in 1977. Have spare Apple ][, C-64, Amiga and
>> SunSPARC
>> parts/systems for trade. My rarest find is probably my tiny
>> collection of
>> 4004 CPUs and support chips.
>>
>
Received on Fri Mar 06 1998 - 08:10:25 GMT