Newly acquire stuff

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Wed Feb 10 01:09:31 1999

I *finally* got that &^%$ UMAX scanner working (needed a firmware upgrade
and nothing I read gave that info until I started digging through UMAX tech
notes) and will start getting scans of the Geniac manuals. If someone is
willing to put them on their site, let me know and I'll email the scans as
they are completed.

A friend of mine and I went over to the university to check out what they
had for sale. There was a Sun-3 sitting there, several HP Series II
Laserjets, Mac IIs, a number of mini-tower cases (full/empty?) among the
other stuff there. The only thing I picked up for who knows what reason was
a Data General One Laptop computer with the printer, (dead?) power supply,
manuals, and a suitcase that it fit in for $30. There was no response when I
plugged in the funny smelling switching power supply and it is now sitting
and waiting for time to check it out further.

Tonight was the Classic Computer Club meeting, and they raffled off an
Amstrad PPC512 portable computer. Neat looking computer but I haven't taken
the time to check to see if it works. No manuals, and only the disks that
were in the drives came with the unit. The person who raffled it off said
it worked the last time he used it.
Received on Wed Feb 10 1999 - 01:09:31 GMT