Osgeld Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 (edited) Sold my 65 xe picked up an apple 2 card for my Mac to retire my //c just bought a broken XT clone laptop runs 8mhz bad screen (idiot didn'tp play with the contrast or brightness at all) and bad hard drive ... which wasn't plugged in Thank God for moron beaters that cost me 20 bucks shipped, verified working would have been that price + 100 bucks Edit it works fine ... played test drive 2 on it tonight Edited June 21, 2016 by Osgeld 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I got two of those cards, but not yet a working system to use one in. :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Regarding the TED....no, I wished I did. I'm wanting to start an FPGA project inspired by the F18a. I'd like to create a drop in replacement for either the TED or VIC in the VIC-20. Good news! Istvan Hegedus just posted on the cbm-hackers mailing list about his FPGA TED project that he has worked on for the past 3 years. The project is not finished, I will be working on making it much more precise, especially the internal video matrix part which currently doesn’t display those FLI images correctly which have badlines in each scanlines. Other types of FLIs are however ok. A lot of thanks to Levente Harsfalvi for the technical information on the audio part! It runs most of the games and programs and sound is identical to original one! I hope one day we can have a die shot of a real TED also and we can reverse engineer it to study all part of it. You can download the source code in its current state here: https://hackaday.io/project/11460-fpgated If you're skilled and seriously interested, perhaps you can join the existing project instead of restarting the wheel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tickled_Pink Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 I haven't bought anything for years. Will be on the lookout for another Vectrex by the end of the year, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Yeah. It's hard to turn down a TI, for example, that is only $15. Or a VIC-20 that is $18. The TI is one fun little machine and with the new hardware being released currently it makes it that much better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Keep in mind I have nearly 70 vintage computers. But these are the ones I bought since 2016. I clearly have an addiction. Lol Amiga 1000 Amiga 500 Commodore 128D ZX Spectrum 16k expanded to 48k VIC-20 Commodore Plus/4 Atari 800 TI 994/a beige In my defense, many of these were sold as "not working" but I've managed to get most of them running. Am I sick or what? Hehehe I think you should rig them up as a cluster so you can leverage the close to ONE MEGABYTE OF RAM and fold some proteins. That's some serious computer power! The beige makes it run faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmeeks Posted August 24, 2016 Author Share Posted August 24, 2016 The Amiga 1000 had a 256K upgrade (512K) plus the 512K of the Amiga 500 + the others is well over ONE MEGABYTE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 The Amiga 1000 had a 256K upgrade (512K) plus the 512K of the Amiga 500 + the others is well over ONE MEGABYTE. Fine, fine TWO MEGABYTES TWO ... MILLION ... BYTES !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 This is one of my favorite vintage computer advertisements, from 1983 Timex Sinclair User. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robc Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Only one so far - a boxed CoCo 3 (which was in a bundle with a cassette recorder, some joysticks and a mix of games and educational software). Did an unboxing of that actually - just because it'd been a long time since I'd found a machine in that condition. It's been a bit of a slow 2016 so far - not sure why, perhaps it's just old machines are getting pricier down here (harder to find I guess) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xl1blyGa9c Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrym95838 Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 (edited) @cbmeeks: I already have that Franklin Ace 2200 with the manual and some software boxed up for you, but it weighs about 35 lbs. and the box is about 18" x 24" x 10". It looks like it's going to cost about $75 to ship it from CA (95838) to TN (37343), and I'm not really sure that it's worth that much (it's in rather rough condition, and hasn't been powered up in over 20 years). Do you know of any cheaper ways I can use to get it to you? I don't want to just throw it away, but I also don't want to waste "our" time and money on an unsatisfactory transaction. Mike B. Edited August 25, 2016 by barrym95838 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmeeks Posted August 25, 2016 Author Share Posted August 25, 2016 @barrym95838 Ugh. You're right. UPS was right at $75 and US Mail was way more than that! Hmm. I haven't tried DHL but I think they are pricey and better for international shipments. I'd really like to have it but I'd hate to pay $75 for shipping. Plus, I'd want to give you something for it. Especially for packaging up that beast. Anyone else know of cheaper shipping methods? If not, I'd rather see it go to another good home instead of a landfill. Thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 This is one of my favorite vintage computer advertisements, from 1983 Timex Sinclair User. Assuming that someone was willing to spend $2,450 [roughly $5,900 today] just on the memory expansion, would this pile even function? I'm thinking that the Sinclair power would be far too inadequate to power everything, and even if that could be fixed, latency would be a huge issue. This reminds me somewhat of the sidecar expansions on the PC Jr. -- one could easily double the width of the console with enough modules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Considering how wobbly the stock 16K module was (one sneeze and you're rebooting and losing all your work), I seriously doubt it would work very well, with latency measured in full seconds rather than ms or ns. The complete lack of practicality makes me laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmeeks Posted August 26, 2016 Author Share Posted August 26, 2016 Speaking of memory, check out my recent haul of 72 and 30 pin SIMM's! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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