From: frank@halcyon.com (Frank Higgins)
Subject: Re: Help needed to bring life back to my old UNIX PC
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:49:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.055312.9796@d-and-d.com> dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) writes:

Thank you Don, I can use that information too.

>In article <1jrjreINNc4o@kirov.intercon.no> aras@intercon.no (Arne Asplem) writes:
>>I need some help to bring life back to my old UNIX PC. The 20 Meg.
>>harddisk crashed totally some time ago, and obviously the computer hasn't 
>>been used since. I need some information about which harddisks (controller
>>type, size, etc.) are supported ? Preferably something larger that 20
>>Meg. (in the range 60-100).
>
>
>	You will have difficulty locating the WD2010 chip, since it is out
>of production.  There is an Intel work-alike which you can get, but I don't
>remember the number.  What I do to get a WD2010 chip is look at hamfests,
>>My other problem is that I'm missing some of the operating system 
>>floppies, specially the boot/install diskette ! Can someone help with this ?

I can send him a WD2010 for $10.00. I've been hoarding a couple and may
never use them. I'll keep the other but will "sacrifice" one. It is
supposed to be and appears to be new. I have not tested it however.

>
>	Here, at present, your best bet is to get one of the 3.51 foundation
>sets available at the Chicago Warehouse full of 7300s, about which recent
>postings have appeared in this newsgroup.  It was within the last week, If I
>remember correctly.  If it has expired on your site, or if the distribution
>has prevented it from reaching you, e-mail me, and I will dig up a copy.  I
>*think* that the foundation sets are selling for $100.00 each.  (This does
>*not* include the development set, which you have to find by haunting this
>newsgroup till someone offers it, and pouncing quickly, since they seem to
>be more scarce than the machines.

I'm the guy who has been making those postings about the Chicago warehouse
full. The Chicago guy still has 4000+/- of them. Price $60.00 through me.
Anyone ordering is going to have to hurry. I'll probably make one more
posting (including some new price information when Chi finalizes it) before
everything will be dumped in the lake or something. Warehouse space for
them is going to disappear in a little over a month.)

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I will need the address of this person. I *think* I saw it last night -
Norway? Postage is a beast. First Class is $.50 per half ounce with a
little reduction as the ounces go up, but not much. Small packets do
better. Anyhow, if you or anyone has his address still, send it to me. Or,
if he can mail to me would be better still.

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He *might* even do better to get a NEW 7300 from Chicago.

	*IF* he can qualify as a non-profit organization by submitting US
	IRS form 501(c)(3), or the Norwegian equivalent, he can buy up to 5
	"DOA" (unidentified bug) machines for $6.00 (SIX) dollars each.
	That is a total of $30.00 out of which he ought to be able to build
	a couple of working machines. (60# each may kill him on shipping)

	OR, as a nfp org, he can get one GOOD machine for $160.00 plus
	shipping.

	AS nfp, one Foundation Set $30.00 plus shipping.

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	Proof of being a student will allow him to buy one GOOD machine at
	$160.00 or TWO DOA machines at $55.00 each (must take two).

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If he prefers just to replace the boot disk rather than going one of the
more elaborate ways suggested, there are two: Floppy Boot disk and the Hard
Disk boot disk. I can mail two floppies and a mailer from here to Norway
for about $2.75 or $3.00 postage. If I weren't on a skimpy retirement
income I'd throw in the floppies and mailer but I can't afford to. So that
adds another $2.00 - - - *IF* he's interested. Total $5.00.  UNLESS someone
closer can do it faster and cheaper. That's 3.51 vers. by the way. I wonder
if he has the patch disks to bring it up to 3.51m?

Frank        

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