New stuff

From: Adrian Graham <agraham_at_ccat.co.uk>
Date: Tue Oct 17 04:49:05 2000

Hi folks,

Some recent additions to the BD collection, courtesy of a customer who was
about to skip (dumpster) the whole lot of 'em! Well, the skipping happens
tomorrow so I saved 1 of each:

VT100 (yay), serial #AB00914 so I don't know if that makes it early or not?
Worked fine once I put the fuse in properly and reseated the space bar on
the keyboard :) Aaah, that keyclick of yore....
VT320 with keyboard
VT420 in box
VT510 w/keyboard
VT520 w/keyboard (yes I know you can still buy 'em but I hate seeing
anything chucked!)
Rainbow 100+ with screen & keyboard....works fine running CPM/86.......

Also got a couple more Pongs at the weekend including the Tandy TV
Scoreboard in tasteful orangey-brown.....

And as a P500-related aside I am the current custodian of my own P500's
stablemate which I have to say is in far better condition (packaging wise)
than mine but sadly the keyboard doesn't work. What are the chances of this
- a guy working for Commodore brings a couple of P500s in for a shop called
Vulcan Electronics in London in what, 82/83?. Both are packaged identically,
both have german power cords etc and are taped up the same way. One ends up
in a collector's loft courtesy of said Commodore bloke and the other ends up
being picked up by me at a local boot sale. The machines are 30 miles apart
and I already know the bloke that has it in his loft!

Spooky, that's what it is.

--
Adrian Graham MCSE/ASE/MCP
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