Message Area
Casually read the BBS message area using an easy to use interface. Messages are categorized exactly like they are on the BBS. You may post new messages or reply to existing messages!

You are not logged in. Login here for full access privileges.

Previous Message | Next Message | Back to Commodore Computer Conference  <--  <--- Return to Home Page
   Networked Database  Commodore Computer Conference   [878 / 900] RSS
 From   To   Subject   Date/Time 
Message   prd    All   CMD SuperCPU and other 8- and 16-bit Commodore systems becoming   July 19, 2019
 3:34 AM *  

Dear all,

Apologies for this semi-spam message from a long-time appreciator of classic
computers and nostalgic obsolete products, but I hope this will be of interest
to at least a few people here.

So, yes, by way of context, I've been acquiring what I consider to be
characterful and/or historically interesting computers for coming up to, maybe,
 15 years now, with the intention of being able to curate multiple, interactive
 temporary exhibits on the 
history of computing, but since moving continents (amongst other things), my
paths and passions have changed, so I am currently in the process of re-testing
 (and repairing) my machines, and will be trying to sell them off in the coming
 weeks and months. 
Under different circumstances, finding people (or groups) with similar
interests and plans would have been an equal-first priority, but given my more
recent 'life changes', sale price ΓÇö and the ability to better pursue my new
focuses ΓÇö is now more of 
a factor.

(That said, if you are (or know) a developer of an open source machine emulator
 who could use one of these machines --- particularly one of the more obscure
ones --- please do get in touch, as the prospect of people being able to keep
older / rarer 
operating systems and software running once the physical machines are not
longer available or working /is/ actually still kinda important to me, and I'd
be open to a lower price and/or setting up some remote access with some kind of
 kludged-together iLO 
and vaguely 'dual-ported' disk access via, e.g., an SD2SCSI setup.)

Although I've already listed the SuperCPU on eBay (see
https://www.ebay.de/itm/163778665527), before I put the rest of them on eBay
(and/or by way of a heads up), I wanted to let people here know, just in case I
 have something that someone here 
particularly wants / needs / could use. The current list of systems I will be
parting with is accessible at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QqUrO...
rL9s but some (hopefully) highlights include (*big breath*):


Commodore: PET 3000 systems, PET 8032-SK; various C64 / C64C and 128D systems;
SX-64; Music Maker keyboards (the big one, inc. SFX modules); Amiga 1000
DEC: MicroPDP-11/53+; MicroVAX 2000; VAXstation 4000 VLC/60/90A/96; VAX 4000
100A, 105; DECstation 5000/240, 260 (MIPS-based); DEC 3000/300X; Personal
Workstation 600au; AlphaServer 4100; AlphaServer DS20, DS25 systems;
Letterwriter 100; VT 101, 220, 520 
terminals
Apple: IIc, IIe Platinums, IIgs; Mac 512ke, Mac Pluses; SE/30 and Quadra 700s
(also for running A/UX); iMac G3s and a G4
SUN: ELC, SPARCstation Voyager (the portable one), 5 and 20; Ultra 1; Ultra 5;
Netra T1-105; Enterprise T5240
HP: HP rx2800 Integrity2; 9000 715/100 and Visualize C110 PA-RISC systems
SGI: Indy and O2 systems


Apologies again, please feel free to contact me with any queries or reasonable
offers, or even if you'd just like to be kept in the loop as more machines
become available, and all the best.

Thanks in advance,

Peter


P.S. In light of the responses I've received to posts I've made elsewhere, I've
 included a 'Default Reserve' price in the aforementioned spreadsheet. I've
written more about this there, but the gist of it is that, given that very few
of the more obscure /
 awesome machines have gone through eBay recently, it's kinda hard for me to
gauge what a fair and reasonable (to me and the future buyers) price is for
quite a few of my machines --- I've started to put in rough figures for /some/
of them based upon '
what feels right', but if there's nothing there, please don't ask me what I
might want for them as I don't know yet (though do feel free to make me an
offer). Thanks again!

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  Show ANSI Codes | Hide BBCodes | Show Color Codes | Hide Encoding | Hide HTML Tags | Show Routing
Previous Message | Next Message | Back to Commodore Computer Conference  <--  <--- Return to Home Page

VADV-PHP
Execution Time: 0.0848 seconds

If you experience any problems with this website or need help, contact the webmaster.
VADV-PHP Copyright © 2002-2024 Steve Winn, Aspect Technologies. All Rights Reserved.
Virtual Advanced Copyright © 1995-1997 Roland De Graaf.
v2.0.140505

Warning: Unknown: open(c:\Sessions\sess_mpdvt5cpejqeehq2rdk3ren165, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0 Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (c:\Sessions) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: session_start(): open(c:\Sessions\sess_mpdvt5cpejqeehq2rdk3ren165, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in D:\wc5\http\public\VADV\include\common.inc.php on line 45 PHP Warning: Unknown: open(c:\Sessions\sess_mpdvt5cpejqeehq2rdk3ren165, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (c:\Sessions) in Unknown on line 0