Intersting, I have a Victor printer, big as a horse, kinda neat, has
parallel/series/IEE488 interfaces on it. Works fine except for . . no
ribbons available for it.
Is that part of the package??
Gary Hildebrand
Brad Chase wrote:
>
> 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
> -----------------------------------------
>
> 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
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> 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
> --------------------------------
>
> 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
> --------------------------
>
> 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
> ----------------------------------
>
> 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
> --------------------
>
> 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
> -------------
>
> 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
> --------------------
>
> 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 - 16:37:04 GMT