Date : Tue, 28 Jan 1992 11:34:47 -0500
From : Jay Sage <sage@ll.mit.edu>
Subject: Lots of Stuff Available!
The Zi/Tel Group of the Boston Computer Society has received a donation of
a large amount of CP/M software and hardware and other items (including some
PC software and HP41 calculator accessories). In return for contributions to
help fund user group activities, we would like to find new homes for these
items where they would be put to good use. You may communicate your offers
in any of the following ways:
(1) by leaving a message on the Zi/Tel BBS in the Boston area
at 617-965-7046
(2) by leaving a message on Jay Sage's Z-Node at 617-965-7259 (logon
password is DDT)
(3) leaving GEnie mail for JAY.SAGE
(4) sending email to Jay Sage on Internet at the following
address: SAGE @ LL.MIT.EDU
(5) sending mail to Jay Sage at
1435 Centre Street
Newton Centre, MA 02159-2469
(6) telephoning Jay Sage at 617-965-3552 evenings (Mon - Thur) or
all day Sunday or weekday days at 617-981-4704
The last method will probably be the least reliable and may take several
tries. The email methods (first four methods above) would be best. When it
comes time to send money, send a check payable to "BCS ZI/TEL" to the Newton
Centre address listed above.
Now for the inventory of items! Some of these items will make sense only
for people within driving distance of my house.
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First, there are boxes and boxes of HARD-SECTORED diskettes:
18 boxes of 8" 32-sector hard-sector diskettes
17 boxes of 5.25" 10-sector hard-sector diskettes
7 boxes of 5.25" 16-sector hard-sector diskettes
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Then there is some miscellaneous hardware:
1 Televideo 802H (CP/M with hard disk)
1 Diablo 620 daisy-wheel printer, serial
1 NEC Spinwriter 7730
1 NEC Spinwriter 3500R
1 Soroc 135 terminal
2 Kaypros that need work (probably replacement of
a disk drive -- certainly good for parts)
1 mint condition Kaypro 2 with ComRiter diasy-wheel
printer, original manuals
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Next, there is the software. We will start with the CP/M items. There
are lots of copies of MicroPro packages in sealed, shrink-wrapped boxes.
Most were originally for Apple CP/M. I opened one of the boxes and was able
to read the diskettes using Uniform and my special disk controller. Thus,
there will be no trouble converting the contents over to just about any other
CP/M format. The programs appear to be complete, though I have not yet tried
running that copy of WordStar 3.31 to see if the installation program has all
the features. If not, the addresses and overlay files are readily available.
12 WordStar 3.31
9 MailMerge 3.30
2 SpellStar 3.30
3 WordStar Professional (WordStar 3.31 plus SpellStar 3.30
plus MailMerge 3.30 plus IndexStar 1.01)
1 WordStar - MailMerge combined package
The additional CP/M software items include:
1 Z-Term for Apple CP/M Softcard
1 Osborne: Documate-Plus, Spellguard, Supersort, DataStar
1 Osborne Personal Pearl
1 Infocom Zork III (Kaypro II)
1 Infocom Cutthroats (Kaypro II)
We also have a few packages for PCs:
1 RBase 4000 relational database management system (DOS)
1 Borland Sprint wordprocessor (DOS)
1 Samna Plus IV wordprocessor (DOS)
1 Open Access (integrated package: graphics, spreadsheet,
wordprocessing, and more) (DOS)
2 TK Solver (equation solver) (DOS)
1 Concurrent CP/M with Windows (CP/M-86)
3 Curse of Ra
2 Upper Reaches of Apshai
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We also have tons (almost literally) of CP/M and other books. Here is a
list.
6 CP/M Handbook, Andy Johnson-Laird
4 CP/M User Guide, Hogan (Osborne)
20 Introduction to Wordprocessing
2 Database Management Systems, Kruglinski (Osborne)
1 Everyman's Database Primer, Byers
1 8085 Assembly Language Programming, Leventhal (Osborne)
1 System Programming Under CP/M-80, Hughes
2 CP/M Assembly Language Programming, Barbier
1 Discover Forth, Hogan (Osborne)
1 The Power of Multiplan
1 Micro Cookbook, Don Lancaster
5 Pascal, A Problem Solving Approach, Koffman
1 Pascal Primer, Waite
1 UCSD Pascal Beginner's Guide, Hume and Holt
1 Pascal for BASIC Programmers, Seiter and Weiss
1 Pascal User Manual and Report, Jensen and Wirth
1 Fundamentals of Microcomputer Programming, Including
Pascal, McGlynn
1 Advanced Pascal Programming Techniques, Sand
1 Introduction to Pascal, Zaks
1 Introduction to WordStar, Naiman
1 Kaypro WordStar 4 Manual
1 The VisiCalc Book for the IBM PC, Beil
1 set of Morrow software manuals (Correct-It, Logicalc,
Quest, Pilot, SmartKey, SID, BASIC 80, CP/M-Plus
Programmer's Guide, NewWord, CP/M-Plus Manual,
CP/M-2.2 Manual, etc.)
2 Osborne User Guide
1 Using the Osborne 1 Computer
2 Osborne User's Reference Guide
1 Osborne Executive guides collection (4 vols)
1 Osborne Field Service Manual
1 Osborne Start-Pak instuction kit with tapes
1 Osborne Guide to Understanding the Micro
1 set of Symphony manuals
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Among the more interesting items is a lot of accessories for the HP-41
calculator.
1 HP-41CX owners manual and soft carrying case (too bad, but
someone had already gotten to the calculator itself)
1 HP 82153 wand (bar code reader)
1 HP-41 ploter module
1 HP 82161A digital cassette drive
9 tape cassettes
1 HP 82106A memory module
The following application packs are available:
1 games 1 real estate
1 navigation 1 home management
1 aviation 3 financial decisions
1 statistics 1 machine design
1 standard applications 1 circuit analysis
1 thermal and transport science 1 stress analysis
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We have a complete (and apparently brand new) Sony SMC70 computer,
including a Trinitron COLOR MONITOR! (Actually, we have two of the computers
but only one monitor.) It also includes 28 (!!) different pieces of software
(multiple copies of many). Contrary to what I thought originally, the SMC70
uses industry-standard 3.5" diskettes (not Sony's own 3" design that failed
to gain acceptance), so there is a chance that the diskettes can be read
using Uniform on a PC with a 3.5" drive. I don't have such a machine handy
at the moment, so I have not been able to try that out. If the diskettes can
be read this way, then the software packages might be usable on other
computers.
3 CP/M Part 1
3 CP/M Part 2
3 CP/M Part 3
1 Sony Graphics Editor
1 Word Processor
1 Word Processor Part 1
3 BASIC Part 1
3 BASIC Part 2
4 BASIC Introductory Manual
2 BASIC Programmer's Reference Manual
2 Accounts Payable Part 1
2 Accounts Payable Part 2
1 General Ledger Part 1
1 Accounts Receivable
1 Payroll System Part 1
1 Payroll System Part 2
1 Report Generator Part 1
1 Report Generator Part 2
1 Spelling Checker
1 Letter Writer
1 Record Management System Part 1
1 Record Management System Part 2
2 Database Management System Part 2
3 SuperCalc
1 VisiCalc
1 Pilot Plus
End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #10
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