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Man, I have been zipping around trying to find some info on the adam, in regards to transferring files to and from a pc, etc.. and having little luck.

normally i am pretty quick at finding things on the net.

chris
 
One thing I have to set up in my 'vintage' area is a nice plain old DOS box with a 5 1/4 floppy.

This way I can use various utilities to move files to my old computers.

I can copy Adam emulator disk images directly to floppy using a 'dcopy' utility so that they can run on the real thing.

I can use 1541 emu so that the PC acts as a fast 1541.

I can finally play Crusader:No Remorse again! My favourite DOS game that refuses to run under any windows system.
 
i am sure you must have an old pc kicking around with a 5 1/4 drive?

if not Jeff, you can gladly have one of my mine.

and lots of 5 1/4 drives if you want one, no worries there.

crusader... i will take a look.

do you remember 'out of this world'? came out maybe 10 years ago.
god i would love to play that again. i actually wept a little at the end of that game, because it ended :)

chris
 
I do have a PC that I was using to display digital pics on my TV but since it has been stagnating for so long I will turn it into a DOS box. I think I have a 5 1/4 hanging around somewhere. It's been a long time since I've had to think about loading drivers into high memory, getting the sound blaster to work, finding the right cd drivers, etc. Will be a journey of rediscovery I'm sure.

You ever notice it comes down to time, motivation, and money? Can never seem to get the right ratio between the three.

Right now my approach is to to a little bit each day instead of trying to tackle everything at once. That way I feel some accomplishment without feeling overwhelmed with everything I want/have to do. I also find that keeping a list of tasks is a BIG help. That way I can organize and prioritize.
 
I know what you mean about trying to do a little bit each day.

Just talking about computers, I have literally months worth of archiving I could do, etc..

If i look at it as a whole, it usually gets me down, and i feel like nothing will be accomplished.

I also like to program, and the amount of half baked projects i have, can also overwhelm me, if i look at them as a whole.

the way i try to look at it now, is that hopefully i have a few more decades of getting my computer stuff organized, so why stress out :)

hope you have fun in your basement :)

chris
 
vic user said:
here are the list of e-mails i have so far. i can't remember which one is mike kenzie's

ba600@ncf.ca
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I've been doing some cleaning up in my basement too. Is anyone interested in the Coleco Adam ?

I also have a bunch of apple monitors and floppy drives.
 

I've been doing some cleaning up in my basement too. Is anyone interested in the Coleco Adam ?

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Ooooh. Ooooh. Ooooh. I am :D !

My Adam is having tape reading issues but it's not the end of the world since I have 2 Adam floppy drives with a load of stuff on disk. Always on the lookout for more software and/or peripherals.

My basement cleanup project is going slowly but surely. A lot of it is behind-the-scenes type stuff like catalogueing but I think that soon my 'vintage computer museum' area will look very presentable.
 
darnit, i should have been quicker in responding...
bye Adam :wink:

glad that your cleaning and organizing has been going well guys, so we can come over and gawk :)

i have started to search the 'net for info on the various computers i have, so i can have a little write up page to put beside the various machines.

one thing that i am finding out, is not to rely on just one source, (at least i have not found a completely reliable one), for getting my info about a machine. some sites miss things, and some get things wrong.

i am also trying to find a good size for the hard copies of the info, perhaps something a bit larger than an index card, but smaller than 81/2" x 11"

i have access to some amazing printing machines, so i want to experiment.

i am planning to have a meet up at my house for the 19th. hope that will work for people.

i hope this will give people a chance to post what they are looking for as well as what they are willing to trade away

i would also like to organize a halloween/ spoky theme retro game night as well, during october of course. there must be games of this type for lots of platforms and 'puters.
 
Ottawa Meet up #2 - September 19

Ottawa Meet up #2 - September 19

OK, so I will try an clean up my house again, for September 19.

Sunday September 19
Time: 14:00

- If people could write a list of what they are willing to trade away, and what items they are looking for, that might help people in deciding what equipment to bring (if any)

- Please let me know if you are planning on coming, so i can figure out how many people migh show up.

Topics i would like to bring up:

1) World of Commodore expo in December

2) Can anyone open up one of my pc tower cases?

3) Ways of letting us know when and where garage sales are happening, and arrange for trips to garage sales

4) Halloween / spooky theme game party

5) Storage methods of magnetic media

6) Setting up a software / publications database to facilitate a sharing library amongst ourselves

chris
 
Re (2), are you too careful to open it yourself, or does the tower has some intrinsic locking mechanism you can't figure out? :D I've opened and closed many various PC chassis, and know they can differ quite a lot how to do it without damaging something.
 
i wish i had a photo to show you.

short of using a hack saw, i cannot firgure out how to get at the insides.

it's too bad, because it is a pentium pro 200 with 128 megs ram, but no modem, and i would use it to replace my pentium 166 with 48 megs ram, as my main internet browsing computer.

i have a 56k internal modem i would like to pop in, but only have max 28.8 external modems

i should have showed the guys the back of the computer when they were over. we even used it when they were over!
 
Some laptops can be a real nightmare to open too. Some are even designed to break upon opening, to prevent opening by anyone but authorized dealers who have the replacement parts on hand to put it back together with.

--T
 
that's kind of what i think happened to this computer.

it was assembled by some defunct company in ottawa, and i think they wanted only their service guys to open the systems, probably with some special key or lever lifter
 
Just a reminder that the next meet up is on Sunday the 19th.

Please leave me a note if you plan on going.

I have the following, that I can think of off hand, that I am willing to trade:

1) Commodore 64c

2) Ambra pentium 133 slim case

3) Macintosh plus

4) Macintosh LCII

5) Atari style joysticks

6) Macintosh printers

7) Commodore printer
 
Meet up #3:

Sunday, October 24, 14:00

Location: my place

e-mail me for directions and my phone number

Fruit juice, veggies and dip, and chips and salsa will be provided.

Thanks for those that attended the last meeting, and thanks for those that mentioned that they wanted to come but could not.

Personally, I got a lot of things accomplished... My thanks go out to Dave, Chris, and Ian, for their kind hearts. Thank you for all your help!

I am getting tons of out of these meet ups, and hope that whatever I contribute, in whatever capacity, comes close to matching the returns of hosting these.

If you have any suggestions, comments, things to trade, machines of interest, or topics you wish to see at the next meet up, please mention them!

I will post again with more updating info.

Hope to see you at the next meet up.

Chris
 
Hi Chris.

I wanted to make it but I've barely had 2 minutes to rub together lately. I'll be in Hollywood for your next one :)-<) so I'll have to plan for the one after that.

I am however getting some progess done on cleaning up my collection. Have added a Magnavox Odyssey 2 to the mix and am working on building a composite output circuit into my Atari 7800.
 
Hollywood! Super cool!!!

If you want Jeff, I can always make it another Sunday in October. I just wanted to throw out a date and give people tons of notice.

So, if you think you will have an hour or two free some Sunday afternoon in October, let me know quick, and I will change the date.

Dave brought over some cartridges for you to look at, and hopefully he will bring them again.

You will have to bring over a TI, so i can see what some of those games look like!
 
Actually with the way October looks I won't be free at all. I'd be up for a November meeting I'm sure.

So don't change anything right now for me. Work is crazy-busy right now and with the trip to California I barely have time to breath.
 
Ok Jeff, I will pencil you in for Novemeber then :D

Will you be in Hollywood for halloween? i just think that would be beyond awesome!
 
Ottawa Vintage Computer User Meet Up
September 2004

I wanted to do a bit of a write up on the last meeting, and perhaps touch on things that we could do at the next meet up.

I want to tell you first off, that this entire message was written on my TRS80 model 100, and then sent over serial cable to the pc
and then the internet. If I was only using e-mail, then I think I would have used my Mac SE30 instead of the pc, just to keep as
vintage as possible :)

Dave brought over an Osborne I (version 2), and by sheer coincidence, I had picked up an old computer magazine at Goodwill which had an article by Mr. Osborne himself and in it he talked about why he made the Osborne. Dave took it with him to scan the article, and pop it on his site.
Dave can also boast about being the one to finally solve opening that damn pc case! Thanks again Dave!

He also helped me hook up a secondary hard drive to it. I gave Dave a Commodore serial cable, as he wants to make an x1541 cable, and said he would make me one as well!


By the way Dave, I managed to remap the whole hard drive of the pc I had connected via the parallel port.
Life is sweet for that pc.

Ian brought over two very full boxes of computer stuff, that he longer wants. Thanks Ian! I scored some good stuff off of you, like the boxed up Windows 3.1 on 5 1/4". I haven't even gone through the stuff properly.

Any things that I do not need, I will gladly give away to anyone at the next meet up, so please remind me.

Chris showed up with a quite a lot of things, yet we hardly went through any of it, due to time constraints. Thanks for that cd, and also for mentioning the pc book. And let's not forget the incredible job you did on my Apple II+ clone. My teenage computer lives again! I am also extremely grateful for all the software you provided.

The microchess game is a lot of fun. One thing that I like to do, is pit chess games against each other, so hopefully this weekend microchess on the Apple will go up against Sargon II on the vic 20!

Well, that's it for now. I should be sending out a reminder posting in the next couple of weeks for the October meet up. If you want me to mention anything for the next posting, please give me a shout.

Chris
 
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