Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London

[Don McKenzie]

Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London

I mentioned this one coming up for auction, a week or two back:
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/...ells-for-216000-in-london-20101124-1861g.html

yes it sold, and for an interesting price.

I wonder if my piece of art is worth anything?
http://www.dontronics-shop.com/australias-first-pc.html

Cheers Don...

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[Paul E. Bennett]

Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London

I mentioned this one coming up for auction, a week or two back:
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/rare-apple-i-computer-sells- for-216000-in-london-20101124-1861g.html

yes it sold, and for an interesting price.

I wonder if my piece of art is worth anything?
http://www.dontronics-shop.com/australias-first-pc.html

Starting to make me wonder what my Mullard Magnetic Core Memory board is
worth now.

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[Trevor Wilson]

Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London

I mentioned this one coming up for auction, a week or two back:
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/...ells-for-216000-in-london-20101124-1861g.html

yes it sold, and for an interesting price.

I wonder if my piece of art is worth anything?
http://www.dontronics-shop.com/australias-first-pc.html

Cheers Don...

**I wonder if my Dontronics 256k printer buffer (using second hand memory
chips) is now worth a fortune?

 

[Don McKenzie]

**I wonder if my Dontronics 256k printer buffer (using second hand memory
chips) is now worth a fortune?

Don't see why not Trevor.

http://www.dontronics.com/z80.html (writeup and source code)
Produced from 1984 to 1993. Memory sizes from 64K to 4Mb (64Mb possible) with an 8 bit Z80 micro.
There was about 4000 sold, which I feel was pretty good for pre-internet days.

Cheers Don...

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These products will reduce in price by 5% every month:
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[Ben Pfaff]

Don't see why not Trevor.

http://www.dontronics.com/z80.html (writeup and source code)
Produced from 1984 to 1993. Memory sizes from 64K to 4Mb (64Mb possible) with an 8 bit Z80 micro.

What was a standalone printer buffer good for?

 

[Roland Hutchinson]

What was a standalone printer buffer good for?

Offloading background print spooling from a microcomputer CPU, especially
one running a non-multitasking OS.

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[Don McKenzie]

Offloading background print spooling from a microcomputer CPU, especially
one running a non-multitasking OS.

Yes, we are talking about the days when a printer just had a micro, and no internal memory, or very little.

When you did a print, your computer stopped completely until the print had finished, as it was spending 100% of the time
chatting to the printer micro. When the print finished, you got access to your computer again.

An in line printer buffer allowed you to dump the contents to the buffer fairly quickly, and the buffer then chatted to
the printer, which enabled you to get on with your work on the computer.

That is the way things worked in the PC world in the 70s and 80s.

Cheers Don...

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[Trevor Wilson]

Yes, we are talking about the days when a printer just had a micro,
and no internal memory, or very little.
When you did a print, your computer stopped completely until the
print had finished, as it was spending 100% of the time chatting to
the printer micro. When the print finished, you got access to your
computer again.
An in line printer buffer allowed you to dump the contents to the
buffer fairly quickly, and the buffer then chatted to the printer,
which enabled you to get on with your work on the computer.
That is the way things worked in the PC world in the 70s and 80s.

**Indeed. Up until I could afford a '386 with 4MB RAM (which I could use as
a print spooler), I used the mighty Dontronics buffer with my various dot
matrix printers. That was how it was with DOS. It was pretty much impossible
to do two things at once. All that changed with OS/2, which had a brilliant
print spooler and put Windows 386 to shame. Pity IBM lacked the marketing
nouse and printer support (bloody thing wouldn't work with my HP Laserjet!!)
that Microsoft had back then.

 

[Ahem A Rivet's Shot]

Pity IBM lacked the marketing
nouse and printer support (bloody thing wouldn't work with my HP
Laserjet!!) that Microsoft had back then.

I think IBM had (and still have) marketing nounce - it's just that
they concentrate on a rather different market, instead of trying to get
millions of people to spend a few hundred each they prefer to get thousands
of people to spend a few million each.

 

[terryc]

http://www.dontronics.com/z80.html (writeup and source code)
Produced from 1984 to 1993. Memory sizes from 64K to 4Mb (64Mb possible)
with an 8 bit Z80 micro.
There was about 4000 sold, which I feel was pretty good for pre-internet
days.

Drat, nothing for a Z80 CTC chip. Still have a box load of these around.

 

[terryc]

I think IBM had (and still have) marketing nounce - it's just that
they concentrate on a rather different market, instead of trying to get
millions of people to spend a few hundred each they prefer to get thousands
of people to spend a few million each.

That is my 2c as well. If IBM had encouraged and supported home users of
OS/2, then there would have been millions of workers telling the boss
that MS Win was absolute crap compared to OS/2.

 

[Rod Speed]

That is my 2c as well. If IBM had encouraged and supported home users
of OS/2, then there would have been millions of workers telling the
boss that MS Win was absolute crap compared to OS/2.

Wouldnt have done a damned thing about the very fundamental problem,
hardly any of the apps that mattered bothered to support OS/2 properly
and none were stupid enough to ignore Win.

 

[Roland Hutchinson]

**Indeed. Up until I could afford a '386 with 4MB RAM (which I could use
as a print spooler), I used the mighty Dontronics buffer with my various
dot matrix printers. That was how it was with DOS. It was pretty much
impossible to do two things at once. All that changed with OS/2, which
had a brilliant print spooler and put Windows 386 to shame. Pity IBM
lacked the marketing nouse and printer support (bloody thing wouldn't
work with my HP Laserjet!!) that Microsoft had back then.

I spent a tidy sum for a daisywheel ("true letter quality") printer with
a built-in print buffer--basically a Brother that a third-party company
had rigged up and resold. About $800 in the early 80s--a couple of years
after the IBM-PC came out, and it was _highly_ affordable compared to
what the lowest daisywheel printer prices had been a year or two earlier
(as in twice the price for a reconditioned, though admittedly heavier-
duty one).

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[Roland Hutchinson]

Wouldnt have done a damned thing about the very fundamental problem,
hardly any of the apps that mattered bothered to support OS/2 properly
and none were stupid enough to ignore Win.

WordPerfect was.

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[Baron]

terryc Inscribed thus:

Drat, nothing for a Z80 CTC chip. Still have a box load of these
around.

Dragon... Anybody... mmm.

 

[Roland Hutchinson]

I spent a tidy sum for a daisywheel ("true letter quality") printer with
a built-in print buffer--basically a Brother that a third-party company
had rigged up and resold. About $800 in the early 80s--a couple of
years after the IBM-PC came out, and it was _highly_ affordable compared
to what the lowest daisywheel printer prices had been a year or two
earlier (as in twice the price for a reconditioned, though admittedly
heavier- duty one).

Oh, and I forgot to mention, the Brother printer was basically a Brother
typewriter mechanism that they had lightly re-engineered into a printer.
It worked perfectly for years; I eventually gave it away after I got a
laser printer.

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He calls himself "the Garden State's leading violist da gamba,"
.... comparable to being ruler of an exceptionally small duchy.
--Newark (NJ) Star Ledger ( http://tinyurl.com/RolandIsNJ )

 

[Rod Speed]

Roland Hutchinson wrote

Rod Speed wrote

WordPerfect was.

Was what ? It certainly wasnt stupid enough to ignore Win.

WordPervert was never gunna survive, it always had a completely fucked user interface.

 

[Ahem A Rivet's Shot]

WordPervert was never gunna survive, it always had a completely fucked
user interface.

Surprising then that it was so popular right up until Windows
became ubiquitous. I quite liked WordPerfect's interface.

 

[terryc]

Surprising then that it was so popular right up until Windows
became ubiquitous. I quite liked WordPerfect's interface.

Still do. It is the only Win OS app that I ever buy now.

 

[Mr.Magoo]

Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London

I mentioned this one coming up for auction, a week or two back:
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/...ells-for-216000-in-london-20101124-1861g.html


yes it sold, and for an interesting price.

I wonder if my piece of art is worth anything?
http://www.dontronics-shop.com/australias-first-pc.html

Cheers Don...

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Hmmmm.. wonder what I could get for my Vic20..

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