[CCTALK] Good Trip / good Score

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Thu May 16 21:10:52 2002

 Just did a trip to BC from Central Manitoba. That's in Canada, eh, Yank.
Thanks to Alex W. I picked up a Dec Rainbow+ w/color card and a DEC
VR240 and a DEC printer and some PS/2 stuff. Finally I have one as a DEC
Rainbow should be - in color

 In Vancouver I hit the mother lode. I had also arranged to pick up there an
Osborne I w/manuals, software, and a 12"x12" Summa graphics Tablet
w/4 directional mouse. Also a box of viginal 8" diskettes.

Van is great for yard sales and also they do a spring garbage blow-out.

 PICKIN" TIME !!

 An Amiga 1000 that I almost missed cause it was still in it's styro pkgng.
Same garbage, a clean C-64C with PSU, nice 1802 , and a 1541 fdd.

 Mac keyboard, LT mouse, large wheel mouse, box of C64 disks, Lloyds TV
Sports Gamer, and passed on a Tandy ARM at $15 (which I now regret.)

 3x IBM newer PS/2 machines and an integrated AST, several 15' SVGA
monitors.
 A box with about 50 TRS-80 zines

 A box of Intellivision carts and about 8 Adam tapes,

 A SHARP PC 3000. After cleaning out the battery compartment and using
new batteries it worked. DOS 3.1 w/a pcmcia card whose Li. battery is
surely dead as is the notepad's.

 And many non-computer items.

 The Sharp 3k is a neat little 8088 handheld about the size of an Atari
Portfolio. Sharp brought it out after high sales of it's Poqet but retreated
when some of the heavier-duty co's. attacked that market

Based on the numerous site info it's a great machine related somehow to the
HP95. At least it can use the HP PCMCIA's if I understood correctly.( IIUC)

 Anyone here a fan of this hand-held ?

Lawrence
lgwalker_at_mts.net
bigwalk_ca_at_yahoo.com
Received on Thu May 16 2002 - 21:10:52 BST