Estate stuff- must go

Tom Peters tpeters at mixcom.com
Sat Nov 5 11:06:11 CST 2005


I should have mentioned that this collection is located in Milwaukee, WI.
At 10:05 AM 11/5/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>With the sad passing of Don S last year, one of the founders of the 
>Wisconsin Computer Society in the 70's, his window finds she must finally 
>begin the process of disposing of a basement full of stuff. Don was a 
>life-long experimenter and user of computing equipment which has mostly 
>found its way into the classification of "classic." Don and I 
>used/programmed DEC PDP-11 and Altos CP/M and MP/M machines together at 
>more than one job.
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>Here's a list of items that must go. Ideally, a small number of people 
>would take this collection, so as to not divide it all up and make 
>shipping/pickup complicated. If the person who wants the Altos computer 
>wants the disks, I will probably fish out all the Altos, MP/M and 
>application (not the Milenium Systems disks) and bundle that with the computer.
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>The drive cabinet can go separately. Anything I suspect is DEC-related can 
>go separately. The Millenium stuff is probably a separate item as well, 
>unless someone wants all of it. If there's no interest in this collection 
>as large units, it will go in smaller chunks to whomever wants it.
>
>She's not looking for money for this material, but can't bear any costs, 
>so S&H is on you, plus some $$ for packing materials. Local pickup would 
>be much, much better.
>
>Estate of Don S.
>Photos are available for a few items: http://my.athenet.net/~uuhhuu/altos/
>Content listing based solely on written or printed labels, may be 
>inaccurate, no further information (e.g. version numbers) is 
>available.  “Assy” = Assembler
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>Hardware: http://my.athenet.net/~uuhhuu/altos
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>Altos Z80 based computer, CP/M, MP/M or ?, 208k memory, dual 8” Floppy, 
>serial, parallel, etc.
>Second Altos cabinet, dual Shugart 801 floppy drives, fan, and power 
>supply only. No motherboard. Was used in a rack for DEC drives.
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>Manuals
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>Manual, Shugart 1610-4 Intelligent Disk Drive Controller
>MP/M II Programmer’s Guide (photo)
>MP/M II User’s Guide (photo)
>MP/M II System Guide (photo)
>Digital Research CP/Net Network Reference Manual (photo)
>Link-80 Operator’s Guide
>Digital (DEC) Logic Handbook 1970
>Manual: Adaptec ACB-4000 Series Disk Controller
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>Eight-Inch Floppy disks on East wall shelves
>
>Utilities (shareware)
>dBase II
>Ashton-Tate ZIP
>CP/M modem programs
>PL1  BASIC 80
>Supercalc V1.12
>9250 Diagnostic
>LK Link Parsing Util
>Turbo Tutor
>Pascal MT+
>MP/M 1.14 (Millenium Systems)
>Wordstar  (Millenium Systems)
>Z80 assembler  (Millenium Systems)
>MP/M 1.16  (Millenium Systems)
>MP/M 1.16 + Wordstar 2.10 + MSI Utils  (Millenium Systems)
>6809 Assy + 8048 Assy + Z8000 Assy + MSI util  (Millenium Systems)
>Z80 Assembly  (Millenium Systems)
>Convert.com + Convert.prl  (Millenium Systems)
>9516 software release  (Millenium Systems)
>9520 demo programs  (Millenium Systems)
>9520 diagnostic  (Millenium Systems)
>Pascal Mt+  (Millenium Systems)
>CP/M  (Millenium Systems)
>Wordstar ver 3.0
>Wordstar 950 (possibly for Televideo 950?)
>CP/M  (Millenium Systems)
>ZAS.COM + ZLK.COM + Z8TINS  (Millenium Systems)
>6800/6802 Assy  (Millenium Systems)
>UCSD PASCAL
>SA 120-1 Alignment Diskette (Shugart?)
>Utils
>Wordstar 3.0 + Mailmerge + Spellstar
>Supercalc
>ISIS V4.2 System
>TCS Accounting (9 disks)
>Adventure
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>Eight-Inch Floppy Disks on North Wall Shelves
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>Altos Diagnostic (2 disks)
>MP/M (Altos)
>CP/M 2.02
>Box of approx 80 disks, some RX01, some CP/M or MP/M, e.g. games, utils, 
>Zork, JRT Pascal, etc.
>Box of approx 40 disks, mostly CP/M  MP/M, e.g. dBase II, Modem 7, BDS C 
>1.44, user group software, terminal programs, terminal programs, ALGOL, 
>FORTH, BASIC, Fortran, Tiny C, Mp/M, Dazzler, PALASM
>Osbourn Accounting
>CP/M 2.24
>DEC disks, probably RX01: TECO etc (black cardboard box)
>CP/M + Wordstar
>Altos
>CP/M 2.24
>Turbo for Altos
>dBase II
>Altos Diagnostic Executive 1.10 (original disk! pink box)
>RT-11 boot disk (DEC)
>Pascal
>CP/M-86
>Wordstar-86
>Mailmerge-86
>Spellstar-86
>Jade Computer Products Double-D Disk Controller CP/M 2.2
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