I recently came into possession of a relatively large pile of on-topic
stuff, and have some of my own that I want to get rid of. I haven't
completed inventorying it all yet - there are a half-dozen boxes I've
yet to look through - but it's slow enough going that I'm sending
around a list of what I have inventoried in case anyone is interested.
When I get the rest gone through I'll post another list.
This stuff is all "cover shipping from Montreal and it's yours". That
includes free if picked up - drop me a line to arrange such.
Feel free to ask questions if you want more information about anything.
Except as noted, everything is untested; some items I can test if
desired - again, drop me a line.
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The list, mostly in no particular order:
TI Programmable 57 pocket calculator, including wall-wart, carrying
case, and "Making Tracks Into Programming" manual. Battery pack
included but will not charge enough to power the calculator even for
seconds. Red filter over display has come loose but is present.
Worked as of a month or two ago, when powered with wall-wart. Some
keys occasionally act a little flaky. I bought this new on 1981-01-26
and still have the receipt.
Numerous (ca. 20-30) cables, 25-pair POTS-quality wire. One end has
Centronics-50 connector; the other is loose wire ends. Length is some
small numbers of metres - about right for cross-connect within a wiring
closet.
A rackmount panel with 64 eight-conductor RJ45-style jacks on the
front; on the back, each four jacks are wired to a Centronics-50
connector. A C-50 gender-bender is attached to each. Note these are
NOT Cat-V, probably not even Cat-III - they look intended for POTS use,
or perhaps serial lines, to my eye.
A rackmount power switch/filter of some kind. It has a mains cable
(which is cut off near the box), a space where a switch has been
removed, and five outlets (two "filtered" and three "unfiltered") of
the sort you find on some computers to feed switched power to another
box - the same connector you find on the computer end of most computer
mains cords. The metal box has a corner twisted and torn; it either
suffered a peculiar accident or was attacked by someone who wanted to
get into it but couldn't be bothered to remove the screws.
Inkjet cartridge refilling equipment (syringe, hole-maker, small bottle
of black ink).
Old Sun-2-era external disk enclosure, ca. 1'x1'x4". Two DD50F SCSI
connectors and mains power connector. Contains power supply,
Micropolis 1325 drive, adapter board between SCSI and the drive, and
internal cabling to hook it all together.
EMP "Manual Mini Modem MM-102". Not acoustic-coupler, but almost that
old; has answer/off/originate switch, power-on and carrier-detect
lights. Includes wall-wart thought, but not tested, to go with it.
Captive telco cable ending in RJ11 plug; also has RJ11 "TELE JACK"
connector and DB25F connector for host.
Ten Cabletron TPT-2 AUI-to-UTP transceivers. These predate the current
10baseT standard for link test; they do not reliably detect link when
connected to (some) modern equipment, but at least two of them work
fine when connected to one another with a crossed cable. There
presumably exists 10baseT equipment they work with; as far as I know I
have none.
Hayes Smartmodem 2400. In original package, including styrofoam
packing, box, manuals, business-reply cards, wall-wart. Box has some
cosmetic damage - scuffs, small rips - but is basically intact; the
styrofoam has basically no damage and the modem's cosmetic condition
verges on pristine.
Packard Bell PB2400PLUS modem. Includes wall-wart, manuals, 5?" floppy
still in sealed envelope, styrofoam packing, but not surrounding box.
S-100 (I think) board from Cromemco, labeled "8K BYTESAVER" with eight
24-pin DIP sockets. It includes a switch labeled "PROGRAM POWER" and a
7812, so I assume it is a PROM reader/burner.
S-100 (I think) board. It looks like a memory board; it is marked
"S100" and "10032-B" and includes a 4x16 array of 18-pin DIP sockets,
all empty. It has 32 ceramic disc capacitors, presumably for
power-supply decoupling; two are physically damaged to the point where
I would not trust them to remain unshorted without testing.
SPARCstation 2 mainboard. The CPU has been replaced with a Weitek
POWER?P. No RAM. This board does not work; my best guess is that the
fault is in the CPU.
An ISA card from "ARCHIVE CORPORATION". Back-panel interface is a
DB25F, with a 50-pin header just behind this. Marked "ASSY 80530-151"
and "REV A"; the "151" and "REV A" are stamped, the "ASSY" and "80530-"
are silkscreened.
A MITEL SMART-1, whatever that is. It's marked "PAV Chaining" and
"Positive Account Code Verification With Chaining". The interfaces
are: a peculiar 3-pin power connector; a jack which is physically
RJ45-compatible; and a DB25F. I suspect the jack is actually for POTS,
since the device is marked with Canadian telco regulatory foo. The
matching power supply is included.
Two cables from Centronics-50 to DA15, with handwritten tags saying
things like "PBX<->NAV" "PRI #1".
An octopus cable from a DE9F to three DB25Ms. The DB25Ms have only
some pins present: 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 20 on two connectors, the third the
same except lacking pin 6.
Six DE9M-to-DE9F video cables from the Sun-3 days, when they used
monochrome monitors with DE9 connectors.
Three co-ax cables with BNC connectors on the ends; one marked with
masking tape and marker G, one B, and the third (apparently identical
otherwise) unmarked.
Eight NeXT video cables - the 19-pin D-shell kind. Seven are about a
foot and a half long, the other more like nine or ten feet.
A PC case. Contains practically nothing - internal wiring for the
front-panel switches is about it. No power supply or mobo.
Two Sun-3/60 cases, with power supplies but no machines or plastic
cosmetic covers - just the metal boxes with the power supplies.
Various books:
Introduction to the AMIGA 2000
AMIGA BASIC
The AmigaDOS Manual (two copies)
AMIGA Hardware Reference Manual
AMIGA ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Exec
AMIGA ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Libraries and Devices
AMIGA Intuition Referenec Manual
Inside AegisDRAW
Amiga Programmer's HANDBOOK
INSIDE AMIGA Graphics
COMPUTE!'s AMIGA PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE
A?TALK III
Inside the Amiga
Programmer's Guide to the Amiga
Advanced Amiga BASIC
Amiga 3D Graphic Programming in BASIC
Secrets of the COMMODORE 64
Commodore 64/128 Assembly Language Programming
35 AMAZING GAMES For Your Commodore 64
LEARN TO PROGRAM THE COMMODORE 64 ALL BY YOURSELF! (course notes)
COMMODORE 64 PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE GUIDE
MAPPING THE Commodore 64
C64 user's manual
MASTERING SIGHT AND SOUND ON THE COMMODORE 64
COMMODORE 64 USER'S GUIDE
COMMODORE 64 GRAPHICS
Your Commodore 64
TROUBLESHOOTING & REPAIRING YOUR COMMODORE 64
A whole boxful of 3?" floppies, I think for an Amiga. (This is a
largeish box, maybe 1'x1?'x6", not just a floppy-storage box.)
Sun books and media:
Solaris 2.2 System Configuration and Installation Guide
Solaris 2.0 System Configuration and Installation Guide
Solaris 2.4 Introduction
Solaris 2.4 System AnswerBook CD (package still sealed)
WABI 2.0 for Solaris 2 CD (package still sealed)
Solaris Quick Start Guide (801-6612-10; Rev A, August 1994)
Solaris 2.4: Latest News (still sealed in shrinkwrap)
Software and AnswerBook Packages Administration Guide (Solaris 2.4)
SPARC: Installing Solaris Software (Solaris 2.4)
SPARCompiler C User's Guide (Version 3.0.1 for Solaris)
A few light-cardboard four-colour-glossies.
A three-ring binder marked "SunOS 4.1 Release & Install"; it appears to
contain exactly that. The plastic piece that tries to keep the pages
from ripping is split across, but both pieces are present.
A package marked "NetWorker for Solaris 4.0.2" and
"Online: DiskSuite 3.0". It contains a CD jewel case marked
"NetWorker for Solaris", still shrinkwrapped; stapled pages marked
"Networker for Solaris Single Server 4.0.2 Release Notes"; stapled
pages marked "Online: DiskSuite 3.0 Release Notes"; and an envelope
marked "NetWorker for Solaris Enabler Certificate Enclosed", seal
still intact.
"Binary Code License" - EULA for something from Sun. Doesn't say what
it applies to specifically, just "the accompanying software". It may
or may not have originally accompanied one or more of the CDs above.
Sun SPARCstation 1 doc box, containing
SPARCstation 1 Installation Guide
SPARCstation 1 Sun System User's Guide
Computers of the C=64/TI99 era (post-8008 pre-IBMPC), and related
stuff. When something is "supposedly" for use with a given machine,
this means that it was so marked by the person I got this stuff from,
but I haven't tried it myself.
Interact
Integrated keyboard and cassette tape
Apparently designed for TV output; captive output co-ax cable
Captive power cable to wall-wart (North American plug)
Connectors: DB25F and two DE9Ms
Back has sticker saying
INTERACT ELECTRONICS, INC.
MODEL NO. ONE
FCC TYPE APPROVAL NUMBER, TV-579
MANUFACTURER, INTERACT ELECTRONICS, INC.
SERIAL NUMBER, 0 1 4 5 7 5
VALID ONLY WHEN OPERATED PURSUANT TO
F.C.C. RULES, PART 15
Fragments apparently constituting most of another Interact (keyboard,
cassette mechanism, wall-wart, main board with two empty IC sockets,
one probably the CPU).
Amiga 2000. Includes keyboard and mouse but no display. (See also
Amiga stuff above.) Includes some six to eight inches of paper which
appears to be printouts and doc photocopies for Atari stuff.
TI-99/4A ("TEXAS INSTRUMENTS HOME COMPUTER"). In what appears to be
the original packaging, with power supply and TV video modulator.
Commodore 64, in what appears to be the original box, with power
supply, TV video monulator, a couple of other cables, a spare
keyboard(!), and an antistatic bag which supposedly contains chips
pulled from another C64.
Laser 128, in the original box (which claims it's Apple IIe/IIc
compatible but has "everything" already built in).
A Commodore "Single Drive Floppy Disk", model 1541 - an external 5?"
floppy drive, supposedly for the C64.
Nine joysticks, supposedly for the C64.
A "64modem", presumably a modem for the C64. (Connectors and markings
are consistent with that theory.)
A "B.I. printer interface", supposedly for the C64.
A VOLKS 6480 modem (1200/300 BPS, autodial/autoanswer, for the C64 and
C128, if the box is to be believed).
An obviously homebrew (and rather carelessly built) reset button
attachment, supposedly for the C64.
A "Forth 64" cartridge, from "handic software ab", presumably (and
supposedly) for the C64.
A C64 three-in-one card. This has three card-edge connectors and a
three-position switch, and a single card edge to plug into a C64.
Presumably it's so you can leave three things physically connected all
the time and switch which one is logically connected with the switch,
instead of constantly swapping modules. Bears the name "NAVARONE".
A C64 four-in-one card. This has four card-edge connectors and a
single card edge to plug into a C64. There is also an enable switch
next to each socket, a reset button, and a fuse. Bears the name
APROTEK. Comes with a slip of paper which is akin to a user's manual
and a piece of ribbon cable with a card edge on one end and a card-edge
connector on the other. The conductor count and inter-connector
spacing are different from those on the gadget itself.
Two cables, about five feet long, with a peculiar DIN-shell
four-conductor connector on one end and bare wire ends on the other.
Pin placement on the connector is identical on both cables.
Something in a box which is hand-marked "Pow. Sup. C64 Repairable".
The device is marked "INPUT 117VAC 60HZ" "OUTPUT 5VDC-1.8A 9VAC9VA".
Included is a sheet with something that could reasonably be a schematic
for such a power supply, though I haven't opened the device to check
whether it matches the schematic. It has two cords, one to a North
American mains plug, the other to a 7-pin DIN-shell connector.
A "PROTECTO BIG BLUE PRINTER INTERFACE", in a box hand-marked with the
Commodore name.
A good deal of paper, including such things as documentation in French
for NetNorth/BITNET and a number of pages torn from magazines
containing computer-related articles, and documentation for a number of
games. It wouldn't surprise me to find a floppy or two amid them; I
didn't go through them in detail.
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