Melbourne has a number of weekend “Technology Markets” that rotate between venues. Today’s market is at RMIT in Bundoora. Vendors at these markets sell peripherals for modern PCs, mobile phone accessories and lots of pirated software and DVDs. A small contingent of Vintage Computer hobbyists, led by Ian Mavric, have turned out at today’s market. ..
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15-May-2021: Note this is a very old post – most of the items below are no longer available. It’s time to thin out my vintage computer collection a little. Below is a list of items currently available. My order of priority for finding new homes for this equipment is as follows: Free of charge (or ..
Last weekend I started to investigate a “decdatasystem” in my collection. I thought I only had the TU10W tape drive and RK07 hard drive. I was very surprised to find that below the TU10W is an entire PDP-11/34 chassis with the controllers for both drives. More information available here -> PDP-11/34 dec..
Introduction In May 2015 I went to VCF Southeast 3.0 in Roswell GA. This page has links to my two presentations and supporting materials. Where links are already provided in the presentations themselves, I’ve not included further copies of them below. Comments and other feedback are very welcome. Floppy Disk Imaging Powerpoint Presentation Z80 Assembly ..
A recently acquired part of my collection includes what I think is an IBM processor presumably from a large system. The mounting frame is in a 3 x 3 grid. 6 modules are fitted and the other 3 locations are empty. This thing is huge – about 30 inches square. And the weight is around ..
I’m having a garage sale on Saturday 28 May 2016 to thin out my vintage computer collection a little. Everything put out for sale will be $5 to $20 per item – including large VAX machines. The items available include those shown below (and many more): The items include, for example: About 5 x VAX ..
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What is it? The DECserver 200 is a “terminal server”. It enables up to 8 terminals to login to various DEC computer systems over an Ethernet link. Back in the day a DECserver it was used to connect terminals and printers to DEC systems. Typically these were VAX machines, though some PDP-11 systems also supported ..