Wanted: Old Computers

**sawmilleng** · 02-18-2014, 08:39 PM

I've got an old S-100 bus computer that came out before the Trash-80's. Bought it about 1981, give or take a year or two.

It has a processor board with an 8085 and 8086 processor. 64K ram board (fully loaded!) and dual 8" floppies.
I have an IBM dumb terminal for it...can't remember the model number but its one of those ones with beautiful green monochrome characters.

Ran on CP/M. I used Microsoft Fortran with it. Don't even want to remember how much I paid for it, but I didn't get much change back from $10K.

Jon.

**FLimits** · 02-18-2014, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by sawmilleng

I've got an old S-100 bus computer that came out before the Trash-80's. Bought it about 1981, give or take a year or two.

It has a processor board with an 8085 and 8086 processor. 64K ram board (fully loaded!) and dual 8" floppies.
I have an IBM dumb terminal for it...can't remember the model number but its one of those ones with beautiful green monochrome characters.

Is it the Compupro System 8/16? That one had the dual processor. Does it look like this?

**sawmilleng** · 02-23-2014, 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by FLimits

Is it the Compupro System 8/16? That one had the dual processor. Does it look like this?

I bought mine in a generic box. But the size looks about the same. I'll have to dig it out and get some photos. It seems to me that the CPU card was a "Godbout Electronics". I didn't have any software that could run both processors or even switch between processors.

Jon.

**FLimits** · 02-24-2014, 12:11 AM

Godbout Electronics became CompuPro. Here's a brief backgrounder: S100 Computers - CompuPro History

Whatever your S-100 system is, it's a good one. I'm amazed you've kept it all these years.

**greenville** · 02-27-2014, 05:04 PM

what about a commodore 64 with floppy drive, 1541 disc drive, data cassette, Epson Homewrite 10, and a lot of software-mostly floppys?

**FLimits** · 02-27-2014, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by greenville

what about a commodore 64 with floppy drive, 1541 disc drive, data cassette, Epson Homewrite 10, and a lot of software-mostly floppys?

There are a lot of these Commodores still alive today, and they are popular. If those items you listed are working and look OK, you can definitely sell them for more than scrap value. To give you a rough idea, recent prices for completed sales on eBay of the Commodore 64 + 1541 drive + extras (software, cables) have been in the $60 to $150 range, not including shipping. If you sell them locally, your price will be lower, but as I said, these little critters are popular, so it shouldn't be too hard to find them a good home.

Here's a picture of a whole C 64 rig, just to make people smile:

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