XPOST: Adoptables and fairly cheapo machines available - NC

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Mon Nov 9 16:09:46 1998

This is a new post on the Obsolete Computer Helpline that I thought
someone may have an interest in. Write to Mike Smith, not me, on these
items.
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Michael M. Smith <snuggemsnospam_at_nospam.bearwolf.com>
Cary, NC USA - Tuesday, November 10, 1998 at 10:44:04

     (Remove the nospams when you reply)

     It's time to clean house. I have numerous machines that need to
find homes, for reasonable prices. How
     reasonable? Make an offer. Not interested in making any money off
these, as most were given to me or
     purchased for a small fee that I've gotten my money's worth out of
from tinkering.

     1. A TI-99/4A computer with speech synth, power adapter, RF
adapter, cassette program recorder with cables,
     many software packages with most in original boxes (The software,
not the machine) Its the black and chrome
     model, and everything works perfectly. Oh, and it has the joysticks
with it too. Not sure how well they work.

     2. Kaypro 1 luggable. Powers up and tries to boot, but no system
disk available. See TRS-80 entry, its disks
     might work.

     3. Kaypro 4 luggable. Same as above.

     4. Atari 5200 game system. Trackball controller, Atari 2600
adapter, three 5200 joysticks, one 2600-compatible
     joystick, several cartridges. Trackball and joysticks could use
some cleaning, can't get them all to work right.

     5. TRS-80 Model 4. Manuals, disks, extra programming books, even a
copy of Zaxxon...Looks awful in b&w
     though. The B drive is a little flaky, might need cleaning, might
need more. It has TRS-DOS and CP/M 2.2 so
     these disks might work with the Kaypros mentioned above.

     6. Atari 800XL with two 1050 disk drives, the 410 tape recorder,
and a "Big Blue" thermal roll printer. Several
     manuals and disks and cartridges. Not in the best of shape, is
quite dirty. One of the 1050 drives is in its original
     packaging. Not sure if this works.

     Interested adopters need to be in the RTP area of North Carolina
(Raleigh, Durham, Chapel-Hill) as I am not
     willing to ship these items. Any questions regarding specific
cartridges may be addressed to me. Thanks, and help
     me get rid of this clutter! Some really interesting items for a
computer museum.

     I also have an IBM PS/2 model 35sx with 16MB of RAM and a 420MB IDE
hard drive (It's an IDE and ISA
     model) that I might let out for adoption too, but will have to ask
$30 to recoup the cost of the RAM and the
     harddrive I put in it.

     Thanks again! Mike
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