XPOST: Adoptables and fairly cheapo machines available - NC

From: Daniel T. Burrows <dburrows_at_netpath.net>
Date: Tue Nov 10 18:34:18 1998

If someone is interested is any of this my wife works in Chapel Hill and
could bring it home and I can box and ship it. Please just check with me
before comitting her - she doesn't know she has been conned yet.
Dan Burrows
336-376-0468
dburrows_at_netpath.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 5:23 PM
Subject: XPOST: Adoptables and fairly cheapo machines available - NC


>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.
>------------------------------
>
>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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