Please respond directly to victor9000us_at_yahoo.com
The Victor 9000 was an impressive early generation
808x based PC designed by Chuck Peddle. With a (for
the time) high resolution green screen no glare
monitor, large 1.2mb 5 1/4" floppies, and built-in
sound capabilities, it was an excellent machine.
Indeed, Victor scored many early sales wins with large
companies such as Ford Motor Cars.
I have a considerable stash of Victor Technologies
equipment, software, and documentation that I must
part with. Read on...
Victor Technologies Vicki Portable System
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Rare Victor 9000 compatible portable (well, luggable,
though smaller and lighter than the original Compaqs)
from the early 1980s. This system has dual 1.2 mb 5
1/4" floppy drives, 640KB of memory, keyboard,
built-in small green screen (8" or so I think), and
built-in serial and parallel ports. (Floppies are NOT
PC/AT compatible, as Victors use a variable speed
floppy system to achieve 1.2mb.) System is in full
working order (I booted it yesterday to make sure),
and comes with MS-DOS 2.11 and MS-DOS 3.1 for Vicki
and diagnostics diskettes.
Victor 9000 System with PlusPC IBM Compatibility Kit
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When Victor realized that PCs and PC clones were going
to become the standard, they created the PlusPC kit to
retrofit Victor 9000s to become PC compatible. PlusPC
systems can boot in either "V" mode, which is fully
Victor compatible or "I" mode which is fully PC
compatible (with the exception of not being able to
format 360K diskettes). System can read and write both
PC 360K diskettes and Victor 640K single side or 1.2mb
double side diskettes.
This Victor 9000 system has had the PlusPC kit
installed. It is a dual double-sided floppy system
(the PlusPC was installable only on double sided
floppy machines) with 512K of RAM and built in serial
and parallel ports. It comes with power cables, MS-DOS
for PlusPC, MS-DOS for Victor 9000, monitor, keyboard,
and manuals. The system works-- I booted it yesterday.
Also included are a set of customer built, foam lined,
hard sided carrying cases for the system. I also think
I have the original controller board that will let you
turn this back into a pure Victor 9000-- if I have it,
I'll include it with the system.
Victor 9000 Networking Equipment
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I have a few (4 I think) Victor 9000 Network cards. I
also have the network interface boxes, some cabling,
software for DOS 1.25 and 2.11, documentation, and
device driver software. The hardware was all taken
from a working network a few years ago, and I believe
it all works, but I won't promise. Just about
guaranteed to be incompatible with any other network
hardware. ;-)
Other Victor 9000 Hardware
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1 PlusPC Kit, not installed in a system, with manuals
still in shrink wrap.
2 or 3 Victor 9000 memory boards from various
manufacturers. May not work (I'm sure one doesn't),
but also full of memory chips.
1 Victor clock card. May or may not work.
Miniscribe III hard disk. May or may not work.
Victor 9000 Software and Tool Kits
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MS-DOS 1.25 for Victor 9000
MS-DOS 2.11 for Victor 9000
MS-DOS 3.1 for Victor 9000
CP/M-86 for Victor 9000
Victor Hard Disk Tool Kit
Victor Hard Disk Tool Kit II
Victor Graphics Tool Kit
Victor Graphics Tool Kit II
Victor Programmers Tool Kit
Victor Audio Tool Kit with audio amplifier card
(Allows voice recording. The victors have a built in
voice playback capability.)
Victor CP/M-80 system with Z-80 card. Yep, you really
can run Z-80 programs on a Victor.
Assorted Victor diagnostic disks
Word Perfect 4.x (DOS version) for Victor 9000 with
manuals
Complete VictorPULSE public domain software library-
over 70 disks of software, information, and
documentation for Victor 9000s.
Write Crane RAM disk for Victor 9000
White Crane Brooklyn bridge (PC transfer software) for
Victor 9000
Fancy Font (scalable fonts from dot matrix printers)
for Victor 9000
Victor Documentation
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Victor Hardware Reference Manual
Victor Supplementary Hardware Reference Manual (This
is also available in electronic form as one of the
disks in the public domain software set.)
Victor Field Service Bulletins
Valid Technologies Memory Board manual & diagnostics
Pretty complete set of Channel 9000 (Victor User
Group) newsletters
Odds and Ends
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US Robotics Courier 2400 (external) modem. (Yes, there
is communication software in all that software above--
it's in with the public domain stuff. No, it won't do
TCP/IP.)
US Robotics Sportster 9600 (external) modem
Citizen 120D dot-matrix printer
Panasonic KXP1092 dot-matrix printer
Large supply of blank 5 1/4" disks.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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Make an offer. I would prefer to send it all out as
one huge load or several large ones, but will consider
other proposals.
All items are available as is, without warranty. I've
powered up the systems to make sure they work. Most
other stuff should (and did the last time I used it)
work unless I've made a note to the contrary. It would
be a real pain to try and install and test it all
again now, so I'm not.
Shipping from southern New Hampshire is *your*
responsibility, though I could probably be persuaded
to deliver within a reasonable driving distance (an
hour or less). :-) There's a lot here.... if someone
wants the works (my first choice), it's probably
enough for a small pallet load.
You got questions? Just ask.
Please respond directly to victor9000us_at_yahoo.com--
not to the mailing list.
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Received on Sun Nov 25 2001 - 14:22:42 GMT