C64 system cost?

Hey, I've been looking into getting a C64 system to play with. I'm looking for not just the computer, but a 1541, a datasette, color monitor, printer, joystick and modem, and some software. Eventually I'd like to get an SD card adapter, too. Can someone give me an idea as to how much I might end u

386 upgrade board

Greetings! I have a Televideo luggable that I have been playing with. Its a 10MHz 286 with a meg of RAM, 2 360k drives and four expansion slots. I've been trying to figure out how capable I can make this machine for the hell of it. Did anyone make an upgrade kit to go from a 286 to a 386? It would

Re: 386 upgrade board

ter protected by Avast. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > On Sun, 7 Feb 2016, Joe Giliberti wrote: > >> Greetings! >> I have a Televideo luggable that I have been

Re: 386 upgrade board

016 at 12:00 PM, Ian S. King wrote: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Joe Giliberti > wrote: > > > That's good to know that they are out there. If anyone has one they would > > be willing to part with, please let me know. I'm also in the market for > an > >

OT: Reading Mac Floppies

Greetings, I know this may be OT, but can someone tell me if a modern PC (with a USB floppy drive) could read 1.44MB floppies from a 68k Mac? I want to use a Powerbook 190 for some word processing and need a means of transferring data. Thanks Joe

OT: Pentium processor sizes

Hey. I'm sorry for the off topic post, but I couldn't think of another forum to ask my question. I'm just looking for information as to whether there are different sizes Pentium processor dependent upon whether the processor is for a desktop or laptop. I want to see if I can give my old Hewlett Pac

maybe OT: Powerbook 5300 OS upgrade

Greetings! I know that many of my posts to this list tend to be on the fringes of what is normally discussed here. I apologize in advance if this is too new for the group. I am trying to get my Powerbook 5300 up and running as a usable word processor (with portable printer) for school and for ema

Re: maybe OT: Powerbook 5300 OS upgrade

I guess I'll be trolling ebay for a bit for a drive. Thanks Guys! On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote: > > > On Aug 21, 2015, at 7:45 AM, Joe Giliberti wrote: > > > > Greetings! > > > > I know that many of my posts to this list tend

Re: De-yellowing

I've successfully "retrobrited" old TV safety screens and a few NES console. What I used was 12% hydrogen peroxide from the beauty supply shop, along with sodium percarbonate, glycerin to keep it wet and xanthan gum to stabilize it to a paint on gel. Then all you do is paint it on, cover it with Sa

Yard sale goodies

x27;s going to dig out a bunch of other 70s and early 80s equipment. https://postimg.org/image/gyjd3j16p/ I can find no reference to either the microprocessor trainer for the cosmic disk drive assembly online. Any information would be pretty cool to see. Thanks! Joe Giliberti

Re: Yard sale goodies

Supposedly the guy has a full COSMAC system that he'll have for me tomorrow. On Aug 6, 2016 5:45 PM, "Peter Cetinski" wrote: > > > On Aug 6, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Joe Giliberti wrote: > > > > Greetings! > > Went to a sale this morning and ended up with som

OT: Creative reuse

I know the content of this picture is probably way too new for this list, but I figured people on here might appreciate it. I work at Pepboys and I snapped this picture a few days ago. I love this person's reuse of something they apparently don't have a use for anymore. I'm sorry if this email off

ICS Microprocessor Training Lab info

with only a basic understanding of BASIC :-) Lately though, I've been feeling like I need more of an intellectual challenge. If anyone can help with more inflammation about this system, documentation and/or any suggestions you may have, I'd welcome it. Thanks in advance! Joe Giliberti

Re: 50 yrs. of Star Trek!

It's funny you bring up Alexa and Siri. I read an article a few days ago about how Majel Barrett, the voice of the ship's computer from TOS to the first reboot movie (and Gene Roddenberry's wife) recorded a phonetic library shortly before her death. I know that Google at one point had a speech syst

HP Multiprogrammer 6942a interesting?

t be there, but I was just wondering if these were anything special. Can anything interesting be done with one of them without an HP system? Thanks! Joe Giliberti

help needed installing USB to Serial Cable for ADTPro

o but it didn't see a serial port. Has anyone run into this issue before? Thank you in advance! Joe Giliberti

Re: help needed installing USB to Serial Cable for ADTPro

or Windows 7. I'll give it a shot and report back. Thanks for your're assistance! Joe Giliberti

Re: help needed installing USB to Serial Cable for ADTPro

nd my screw-up! Joe Giliberti On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Adrian Graham wrote: > On 11/03/2017 21:52, "Joe Giliberti via cctalk" > wrote: > >> The cable is branded "Ugreen." I've had difficulties with USB to RS232 >> adapters in the past, which is w

Re: help needed installing USB to Serial Cable for ADTPro

appreciate everyone's help Joe Giliberti On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Mike Whalen wrote: > Great news! > > > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 4:49 PM Joe Giliberti via cctalk > wrote: >> >> Okay, it's working the ugreen one. I did a stupid and dropped the >>

Re: help needed installing USB to Serial Cable for ADTPro

Any attempt to connect to view, send or receive results in a host timeout On Mar 11, 2017 9:15 PM, "Mike Whalen" wrote: > Are you getting host timeout when you attempt to list a directory? > > > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 7:53 PM Joe Giliberti > wrote: > >>

Re: help needed installing USB to Serial Cable for ADTPro

All right, ADT apparently thinks that it's connected all the time, even when the cable is disconnected from the //c. I will continue troubleshooting tomorrow. Goodnight! On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 9:40 PM, Joe Giliberti wrote: > Any attempt to connect to view, send or receive results i

Re: help needed installing USB to Serial Cable for ADTPro

The bootstrapping option is grayed out in ADT so I can't do that. I don't have access to my usual tools for the next few days, so I can't loop the pins On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 5:28 AM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: > On 12/03/2017 01:52, "Joe Giliberti via cctalk"

Re: help needed installing USB to Serial Cable for ADTPro

Bingo! Thanks man! On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: > On 12/03/2017 20:57, "Joe Giliberti via cctalk" > wrote: > >> The bootstrapping option is grayed out in ADT so I can't do that. I >> don't have access to my usua

Re: Photography, was Re: Pair of Twiggys

Looking at doing some wet plate work next, but I haven't found a cheap source of ether yet. Maybe a surgical supply place in a bad neighborhood?

Re: CLASSICCMP vs. RackSpace or Gmail

A few months ago I stopped getting messages and ended up getting yhis address booted from the list because of excessive bounces after reactivating three times. Though straight away I signed back up and no issues since. Joe G