PDP-8 Straight 8 restoration

2020-03-29 Thread Brendan McNeill via cctalk
Here in NZ and around the world many of us are in lockdown and spending more time on our computers, if that were possible. I have just completed the restoration of a PDP-8 Straight 8 which I believe is the only one in New Zealand. You can view the restoration story and find appropriate resourc

DEC RRD40 CD-Rom Drive caddy

2016-07-14 Thread Brendan McNeill
Greetings The DEC RRD40 CD-ROM drive requires a DEC caddy to insert and remove CD’s from the drive. Does anyone have a spare caddy they could sell/post to me? Details of caddy in this document link below, however if you don’t know what it is you are probably unlikely to have one. http://www.c

DEC PDT-150 software

2016-07-10 Thread Brendan McNeill
Greetings I have a restored and (I think) functional PDT-150 with dual 8” floppy drives but no software. I do have some blank 8” diskettes but no real means of transferring an operating system or (say) a word processing program onto them. Any assistance would be appreciated. Happy to pay for

Tandy TRS0-Model 2000 Computer Monitor required

2016-06-28 Thread Brendan McNeill
Looking for a Tandy TRS-80 Model 2000 compute monitor. Wikipedia description here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_2000 The monochrome is model VM-1 Monitor, the colour is CM-1 Monitor. Many thanks Brendan --// bren..