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Tel 01935 25974
Martin Wilson, 32 Grass Royal, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 4JW
720k 3.5 double density and drive in frame. For XT pcs £18
20meg MFM hard drive £19 (tested)
RM Nimbus 386 25mhz, 4meg, 80meg HD(doubled to 160), 512k Svga vesa
graphics, mouse and keyboard, mono monitor £190. Nice system. Could be
converted to 486 using Texas 386 to 486 chip with double speed operation for
upto 4x speed increase.
Uninterruptable PSU modification kit for IBM PC and compatibles. Complete as
new with rechargable battery pack. In the event of power cut saves current
program to hard drive with full input. Does a memory dump. £25 but really
for PC's with 4MEG or less.
Panasonic KXP1123 24pin LQ printer, fully electronic, includes manual,
superb LQ printout and fast draft, extremely cheap to run. £3 ribbons last
ages. Built to last but very stylish. Fonts and configuration using front
panel. £80 inclusive.
EPSON 8088 MCGA PC, 640k RAM, 3.5 720k disk drive, modern 256 colour
graphics, Extended keyboard, mouse, well built and stylish system, probably
the last XT made, 20meg IDE hard drive with lots of installed software, mono
VGA monitor £75
Amstrad CTM644 monitor with cable to BBC. £45
Commodore 64 with tape deck and lots of software £25
Betacom Murata F20 facsimile machine £110 including insured postage.
Various Amstrad NC100 spares(no working displays).
BishopsGate Terminal. Its the size of a PC extended keyboard in fact it is
a PC extended keyboard but its been enhanced inside with a built-in modem,
serial ports, graphics output. It comes with a PSU and has RGB output that
will work with normal BBC monitors/scart tvs etc. Its compact size and
serial ports means it could be used with the BBC as a remote keyboard by
redirecting the BBC's input from it's own keyboard to the serial port.
Ideal for wordprocessing. £12 inclusive or free with order over £50. Manuals
are still available from Bishopsgate at about a fiver. The fact that it has
RGB means it may be configured for viewdata/teletext type services.
ICL One Per Desk, Sinclair QL based communications computer, 128k RAM, 68008
processor, twin microdrives, Monochrome monitor, built-in 2,400 modem,
speech synthesiser, telephone. Includes business software in Rompack
extension. Includes all original manuals and original microdrive cartridges.
You can program it to answer phone automatically and use the speech
synthesiser to speak to the caller( weird!), it has RS232 connections for a
serial printer. Its all setup from different menus and unlike the QL, Basic
has to be loaded from cartridge. The built-in ROM contains all the
communications software etc. £40 inclusive.
Tandy High resolution monochrome monitor. Long persistence so ideal for
wordprocessing for long sessions. £20
Vic20 £15, C16 £25, Megadrive + switches £53
Portable Goodmans CD player £38 inclusive.
Electron plus datacorder and software £25
Electron Plus 3 disk drive £25
Cumana Electron disk interface with DFS conversion. Built in battery-backed
clock and formatting commands and utils. Plugs into Plus 1. £15
Electron userport cartridge for Plus 1. Enables use of mouse on Electron. £3
Electron digital joystick interface. For basic Electrons only as hogs
expansion port. £4
Combined ADI and ADU Eprom. ADI is a brilliant copier and ADU is handy for
DFS to ADFS conversion. Plus lots of other uses. £3
Ribbon Cables
14way ribbon cable, bare ended 2-4metres £1.50
25way Ribbon cable, 25way D connector to 34way IDC. This is the cable from
a Master Compact to its internal 3.5 drive. £3.00
20way Ribbon cable, 20way IDC to bare end 1.5m. Suit replacement cable to
item that uses user port(mouse/eprom programmer) £2
34way multicoloured ribbon cable 1ft 50p
14way ribbon 2-4m bare £1.50
16way ribbon 1-2m bare £1.25
20way IDC to 20way IDC .66m £2.50
20way IDC to bare end 1.5m £1.50
20way IDC to bare end 2m £1.50
34way IDC to 34way IDC (very short for internal disk drive) £1
50way IDC connector(previously used so would need to be carefully removed
and reinserted on another cable) .75p
36way Centronics plug to 36way Centronics plug 1.5 metres (printer to
printer buffer type cable) £5
16way ribbon 1.5ft 75p
26way ribbon 2ft 75p
25way ribbon 15cm 50p
20way ribbon 2ft 50p
14way ribbon 2-3m £1.25
keyboard connector cable. 17way £2.50
12way cable like above £3
20way IDC + 7pin din plug(1.5m 20 way ribbon) to 25way D connector(female)
20way IDC(7cm 20 way ribbon) 20way edge connector £3
14way ribbon 1ft 75p
8pin Din plug (spectrum 128/+2/+3/CPC+) 85p, 8pin Din Plug (megadrive mk1) £1, 6
pin D plug (BBC/Elk/CPC) 75p, 23D connector+cover(amiga monitor) £2, Scart plug
£1.25 plus others.
Other leads
Kettle leads. Normal mains plug to large 3pin connector. As used by
Compact and PCs. £4
Compact phono to phono with lowloss cable(monochrome monitor) £2.50
Compact phono to scart with lowloss cable(videotitling etc) £4 BBC to BBC
RS423 cable(5pin domino to 5pin domino) £7
BBC to Microvitec RGB monitor £2.50
SCSI cable, 25way D connector to 50way centronics £9
All cables/connectors inclusive of postage and packing. Most are one-offs.
Wanted.
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21" to 25" FST tv with NTSC compatibility and SVHS input. Can p/x Ferguson
25" FST Fastext with 50/60 hertz compatibility and full RGB scart. May
consider 19" screen. Don't actually need Nicam.
Any interesting hardware for Archimedes, PC, Mac, Amiga, ST. Anything
really.
NTSC to PAL converter
ADFS ROM for AP4 Electron disk interface.
Large Reflector telescope with motorised tripod (preferably Tasco).
Old computer magazines like BBC, Spectrum, multi, consoles, mac,
apple, PC from early 80s to recent. In fact any computer really except for
mags with very low editorial like Micromart and a lot of PC mags.
Old cover/PD compilation CDROMs for PC/Mac/ST/Amiga/Arch etc.
One of those sophisticated joystick things that work with Elite. Not a
standard type BBC joystick.
Always willing to haggle, swop, part exchange either way or just help out
if I can.
Wanted info.
On Case 400/26 modem. I've looked inside and its got dipswitches everywhere.
An expensive modem from 1986/7. Any ideas? Could the 400 and 26 stand for
the speed?