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DatapointChick

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So I’ve been looking to sell a Datapoint 1500 that boots up and it has the Datapoint dot matrix printer that does turn on, as well. Has the cables and the 8in floppy boot up. I can’t find any past sales on eBay and do know this is pretty rare from the research I’ve done so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Laura
 

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Beautiful piece of equipment, looks a little bit big to send through the post. Would you disclose your location / state ?
 
I got the exact same setup, although non-working, for the equivalent of 400 USD. The earlier Datapoint's (2200, 5500, 6600) are certainly more valuable.

Jos
 
When did you acquire yours?
jdreesen said:
I got the exact same setup, although non-working, for the equivalent of 400 USD. The earlier Datapoint's (2200, 5500, 6600) are certainly more valuable.

Jos
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Thank you for responding, Jos!! When did you acquire yours?
 
DatapointChick said:
So I’ve been looking to sell a Datapoint 1500 that boots up
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I'm a little puzzled, the floppies in the picture are for an IBM system.
Were they overwritten with Datapoint software?
The software for it was called DOS.H
You can find manuals and pictures here, it is a Z80 system and doesn't
run the same software as the earlier Datapoint systems
 
digging back in my emails, I bought a 1500 and floppy for $250 at VCF West in 2015.
there were a bunch of discussions about it on the now dead datapoint yahoo group in 2015 and 2019
Austin Roche said there was a hard disk based 1500 with a bunch of software at the museum in
San Antonio

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Thank you Al. We have a 1560 with the combo floppy/HDD that is in our repair queue. We know the history of the system well and we know the HDD is full of 15xx software. The power supply has an issue but we know what is the most likely cause and feel it should be simple to repair. Just in the queue!

I’ll compile the list of relevant floppies we have.

Austin

On Aug 6, 2019, at 11:58 AM, Al Kossow aek@bitsavers.org [DatapointComputers] <DatapointComputers@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

On 8/6/19 8:23 AM, Austin Roche austin.roche [DatapointComputers] wrote:
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> I believe SAMSAT has some disks as well. I’m not sure how many but I can put together a list by next Monday (darn working).
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> By the way, what is the difference between a 1500 and 1560? I’m quite sure we have disks for both systems.

1500, 1550 and 1560 appear to be the major models, they are supposed to all run DOS.H
I have a few issues of "Source Data" from 1981 and 82 that I'll be putting up on bitsavers later today
that mention the announcement to the 1550 and 60. I think the models after the 1500
have a 4MHz processor and can support more than 64k of memory. Hardware wise the 1500
and 1551 boards I have look very similar, there is more firmware on the 1551 board
and it has a faster clock oscillator. I think they mention the later models support
double-density floppies.
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Al Kossow said:
I'm a little puzzled, the floppies in the picture are for an IBM system.
Were they overwritten with Datapoint software?
The software for it was called DOS.H
You can find manuals and pictures here, it is a Z80 system and doesn't
run the same software as the earlier Datapoint systems
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Hi AI😊

I don’t think we have ever had an IBM system before, so not sure where those came from. I just assumed they went with the Datapoint. We do have a Datapoint floppy…and this is what I used to boot it up recently.
 

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I was trying to post a video of it booting up with the floppy, but no matter how much I shorten the video it’s still too big😕
 
Al Kossow said:
I'm a little puzzled, the floppies in the picture are for an IBM system.
Were they overwritten with Datapoint software?
The software for it was called DOS.H
You can find manuals and pictures here, it is a Z80 system and doesn't
run the same software as the earlier Datapoint systems
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Hey again, Al,

So I was looking through the links you sent and found this (see picture):
 

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I recognize the labels on the disk as being for an IBM system.
They have nothing to do with the datapoint
 
With the one part number I can see on the diskettes, P/N 1635002 cross-references on bitsavers to software for the IBM Series/1
 
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