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For Sale: spotted on Craigslist (continuous sightings)

I’m pretty sure that’s a word processor. I’m sure they’ve got their fans though. My mother has a brother one that she’s used for years. I don’t think hers even has a floppy drive, all internal storage.
 
No--it's a Smith-Corona PWP. I own the portable LCD version, the 7000LT. Here's a video

Get a laugh at about 8:13 when he tries to put a 3.5" floppy in the 2.8" Data Disk drive.

The Mitsumi DataDisk drives recorded about 60KB in a spiral track--you start the motor and the head traces a spiral pattern to the end and then returns to the start. A one-track drive. I was contracted to do some forensic work back in the 1990s to see if anything could be retrieved from a pile of DDs. In addition to picking up the PWP, I grabbed another DD drive and worked out an interface, basically a data separator and a USART (operated in sync mode) and some glue. Worked fine, but since the drive records a full track with every write, there wasn't anything that could be gotten, other than the data from the last write.

The problem with the Mitsumi drives, which the guy in the video is certainly experiencing is that the drive belt turns to goo and fouls up the innards.
 
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MikeModifed said:
Tandy 3 ("special model for a computerized Dahlgren engraving system") https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/ele/d/lebanon-vintage-tandy-radio-shack-trs/7294109411.html

Catalog No. 71-1001 #0001025

Mike
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That's pretty sweet. If it wasn't so far away from me, I'd be on it. Shipping on heavy, bulky items tends to drive the cost to acquire things like this too far beyond the item's worth to me. 48K, dual floppy systems aren't found very often these days. Someone who lives locally and can go pick it up in person will do well to add this to their collection.
 
 
 
In my experience the CL prices for vintage computer stuff are pretty high for the most part. Equal to eBay in many cases. Every now and then there's something at a not wild price, but you have to prowl the site pretty regularly to catch them.
 
8088 IBM: https://providence.craigslist.org/sys/d/johnston-1982-ibm-xt-with-color-monitor/7297098352.html
8088 IBM: https://boston.craigslist.org/bmw/sys/d/natick-vintage-ibm-original-pc/7308880437.html
8088 IBM: https://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/sys/d/hopewell-junction-rare-vintage-ibm-5155/7305630592.html
8088 IBM: https://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/sys/d/fishkill-rare-vintage-ibm-5155-portable/7289841777.html
8088 T1000: https://newyork.craigslist.org/que/sys/d/howard-beach-vintage-tandy-1000-rl-hard/7297573781.html
286 IBM: https://ottawa.craigslist.org/sys/d/vintage-ibm-ps-model-60-tower/7293549923.html
286 Laser: https://akroncanton.craigslist.org/sys/d/alliance-laser-vintage-ultra-rare/7289542570.html
486 IBM: https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/sys/d/minneapolis-ibm-ps-model-77/7306641410.html

WP7 & Win3.1: https://philadelphia.craigslist.org/zip/d/ambler-wordpefect-windows-31-full-set/7308171365.html
 
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