"Mark Metzler wrote:
I was in WalMart last night, and I swung by the Electronics area. I was curious as to how much a replacement drive would cost me for my PC at home, which has a 17gb drive in it. They had a 80gig drive sitting on the shelf next to the surge suppressors for $70. Never mind that it comes with the software to copy everything to the new drive. So I stood there trying to do the math on what it would cost to equate that volume of storage with ST506 drives at $1995.00 a pop. My head started hurting, so I rounded the ST506 to $2000.
It would take 16,000 ST506’s to reach the memory of the drive in WalMart (again sitting on the shelf, not behind a locked cabinet).
At $2000.00 a pop, it would cost me $32,000,000.00.
Now that would have been a nice sale, but would have been stolen by Jim Scharffe or Mike Daniel.
Here is another perspective. If stacked on top of one another, they would be as tall as a 667 story building.
If from sea level, they would stack high enough to top the tallest building in Downtown Denver.
If sold with a cabinet and power supply, Josef Rabinowitz would be retired. "
"Ohmigod! I'm reminded of when I worked for Heath Kline at Priority One Electronics in Chatsworth...and before that for Galaxy Computers in Woodland Hills when the Commodore 64 was introduced! We thought it huge compared to the Timex Sinclair...."
"We both have been into computers since 1970's & currently own 6 OSBORNE's in working condition. Although we use DOS now, we miss cpm & how actually FAST it was compared to Windows. We miss dBase. Append as well instead of Access now. We still have data on 5 1/4" discs we need to put into the dos machines we use now.
Sorry to hear you are leaving the business - we certainly hope you find a buyer who will keep the collection intact!
Best to you & your wonderful efforts!"
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Sharp MZ-80K a very old and rare fully working computer system from the 1970's. The computer is in a very good condition, has been tested and works perfectly. The MZ-80K does not have a resident language, but has Sharp BASIC tape, which allows the language to be loaded into the RAM area. This system comes with 48Kb RAM, but once BASIC is loaded there is just over 34Kb available.
The full specifications:
CPU : Z-80
Clocking rate : 2MHz
Memory : Monitor ROM 4K bytes, RAM 48K bytes ( dynamic RAM )
Display : 10" CRT ( black / white display ) 8 x 8 dot matrix, characters: 1000 ( 40 characters x 25 lines )
Cassette : Standard audio cassette tape, data transfer speed 1200 bits/sec
Sound output : 1 generator of the 8253; 400 mW output max
Keys layout : Number; 78 keys, ASCII standard ( alphabet capital letter, figures), small letter, graphic
Power supply : AC 220V ±10%, 50Hz, AC 240V ±10%, 50Hz ( for UK )
Power consumption : approx. 45W
Dimensions : width 410 x height 270 x depth 470mm
Weight : approx. 13 kg
Vintage Headstart Explorer PC Model EX-938-CP with fold-up keyboard and she power's on. The HeadStart Explorer was originally designed as a PC/XT clone with some special features. The keyboard is attached to the main unit and can be folded up to make a compact package. The system has built-in CGA graphics, 3.5 inch floppy drive, and a small hard drive. HeadStart included a nice graphical shell to let you easily run programs, and the system unit originally had room for one 8-bit expansion card. Overall, it's a really nice system. Complete with Headstart Mouse, Operating manual, GW BASIC software and Application Software Manual..
Olld micro computer boards and peripherals manufactured by Micro Mint. Power supply is also included (but is not shown in the photo). The boards include: (2)BCC Z8 Basic System/Controller micro computer boards. You program it in BASIC from a PC or terminal using an RS-232 serial port . This board uses the 80C52-BASIC processor chip.(4)MMZ8 Expansion II boards (extra memory, cassette I/O, parallel I/O ports). (4)8 bit A/D boards (eight channels of 8-bit A/D conversion). (1) Expansion board, early version (extra memory, cassette I/O, parallel ports). Includes: MANUALS for most of the boards
Vintage Ross Computer comes with a booklet and paper for directions and practical palculations. Copyrighted date is 1919 by Louis Ross Civil Engineer. The Computer is in good shape.The booklet and paper are yellow and fragile.
Lot of 29 Cromemco S-100 boards with manuals. Cromemco made S-100 based systems and boards, which were compatible with other S-100 systems in the mid-70's. All the boards have manuals (or photocopies of the original manual), only some of the cards have cables.
Includes: (3) ZPU, Z-80 CPU card (1) DPU, Dual Z-80 and 68000 CPU card (2) 64KZ, 64K RAM cards (1) 256KZ, 256k RAM card
(4) 4FDC, Floppy disk controller for 8" drives
(2) 16FDC, Floppy disk controller for 5.25" and 8" drives (2) 64FDC, Floppy disk controller for 5.25" and 8" drives (1) STDC, ST-506 MFM Hard drive controller (3) PRI, Parallel Printer card (2) TU-ART, 2 port RS-232 serial, 2 port parallel card (2) OCTART, 8 port RS-232 serial card (2) QUADART, 4 port RS-232 serial card (1) IOP, I/O processor card (controls Quadart cards) (3) 8PIO, 8 port parallel I/O card. These cards are no longer part of our collection.
Amiga 1000 w/Monitor,Genlock
Original Software!
Classic Amiga set up, complete with everything you need to start reliving 1985. Physically, computer works great and is in good shape. Mouse works, but may need a cleaning. Includes Amiga Genlock 1300 in the original box with the original software and manual, apparently, this was designed to give the 1000 A/V ports, and to facilitate video editing. Pretty cool, and pretty ahead of it's time when you stop to think where Apple was in 1985. Includes software and manuals, most in original packaging.
ORIGINAL Software & Manuals (Kickstart 1.1, Workbench 1.1, Amiga Extras, Kaleidoscope) in original packaging
Amiga Graphicraft
Amiga DOS manual
Amiga BASIC manual
Scribble
Organize
Printmaster Art Gallery
Into the Eagle's Nest
Lemmings
The Fairy Tale Adventure
The Bard's Tale
Blood Captain
Death Bringer
Adventure Construction Set
Amstrad PC1640 (PC1640DD) It is in excellent shape, complete and working. This model has the rare Seagate hard drive and Amstrad Modem Card options! It even has the Amstrad Manuals and System disks! Includes the original box for the Amstrad monitor. The battery socket is not corroded! The monitor screen is sharp! Software includes: Norton, AutoCAD and more.
Tandy 1000HX. In 1984, Tandy released the 1000 series, a nearly 100% IBM compatible, became its best selling line of comput ers ever.
cpu: Intel 8088
O/S: MS-DOS
Memory: 640Kb(with expansion card)
Floppy drive: (3.5 inch 720K)
I/O: Parallel port
Video: color CGA
Good Condition
