Recent content by vcm

Good day everyone, I know that this is probably a topic that has come up before but I'm hopeful that this will be a new twist and will be beneficial to others as well. I am working through a recently acquired 7300 Unix PC. This is the earlier version rather than the 3b1. After a complete...

In particular, I am looking for the following exterior plastic parts to complete some restorations: Sun Ultra 1 workstation top cover SGI Octane front "door" that covers the drive/power/etc. DEC PDP-11/03 the beige front panel bezel IBM 5140 PC Convertible, the beige top cover for the screen...

Working on a restoration project and need a working HX-20 LCD. Will also consider incomplete, damaged, or otherwise parts machines. My exterior case is good, and all keys are intact. Restoration unit has internal corrosion from the internal battery pack. Thanks!

Looking for one keycap for the earlier white letter Apple IIe keyboard. Just need a shift key. Keyswitch itself is fine. Thanks!

Letting go of some non-critical spares. Finish up your restoration project or start a new one :-) Looking for $100 obo + shipping. PM if interested. Photos here: Floppy drive mounting cage (choose a plastic or metal one) metal enclosure for motherboard working power supply, but has...

So, after adding a VAX to the collection recently, I have been more interested in the PDP line of machines. I am trying to figure out how useful a small PDP-11 would be without some soft of disk drives. Ideally, I would like to run RT11 with some classic games like adventure. I have this all...

Virginia computer museum is currently on the lookout for: DEC VT-220 terminal PDP-11, small variety. Amiga 500 or 600 1.44MB IBM PS/2 model 30 286 floppy drive original IBM ps/2 mouse DEC Rainbow 100 Nintendo Super NES IBM 5170 NeXT Workstation Silicon Graphics Indigo2 or similar workstation...

Having owned a number of these machines as a teenager, finishing up with a brand new Tandy 6000 that I purchased at a Radio Shack tent sale around 1990, I felt that it was important to share my experiences with others who are interested in these systems. The 6000 was the most memorable, as this...

Just looking to see if anyone out there has any Basic/4 equipment in their collection. We have a complete system with documentation, disk packs, etc. At some point it would be nice to restore and see if it can run. I have never had much luck finding information about these systems online...

We have an Atari 1200xl computer which is in perfect physical condition. History of this machine is not known. When powered on, the power LED lights, the screen flashes red for a brief moment, then goes to pure black. There are two soft "pop" sounds from the tv speaker during the start up...