Now there’s a beauty we really should have on display.
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Ah, the “WarGames” computer. I have a couple of them. One was working when I last turned it on before I moved in 1987. It will need to be checked and probably recapped before applying power. It is bare-bones with few additional S-100 cards.
The second I bought to restore. I have never powered it up and it has broken/missing switch paddles. I have spares but misplaced them. This one has a number of S-100 boards in it.
I do not have the factory 8" drives with either. My brother does with his, but it cannot format floppies - you have to either buy them preformatted or use in a different machine first.
I consider both to be too valuable to leave at The Space. The temptation would be too much.
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True true… But would be a worthy project to get one of them up and running then connected into the Publix/BBS network.
What interfacing protocol do the drives use?
As for the switches, couldn’t one just 3d print those?
Standard Shugart 8" floppy cable.
I could, but it may be difficult to match the exact colors and the surface texture.
well now… just found the modern emulator for that which uses CompactFlash storage
http://www.datexdsm.com/emulator/docs/DTX200en.html
Drive documentation: http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/drive.html#shugart
This one is also supposed to be really good too and uses sd cards instead.
I have a color classic that would boot, up to a few years ago. Cherry bombs now.
I have a mac Quadra. one of the AV models. not sure switch, or if it functions.
An Atari 1040ST that I used and enjoyed so much.
I am going camping with the boys this weekend for 9 days, so need to prep for that. After, we can take a look at see what works. Cheers.
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I would love to see a DOS Osbourne or Compaq luggable in the collection.
How about a CPM86 Osborne? So much better then that Microsoft junk.
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anyone have a NeXT machine? I was always jelly of them
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If you’ve got a recent Mac, with Mac OS X, you have a bit of history from the software written for that historic machine. The “NS” prefix on the various Cocoa Foundation classes, when writing code in Objective C, comes from NeXTStep. 
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Most Osbornes were based on CP/M.
True, Plus there’s the opensource descendant GNUStep and resulting distro etolieos.com or just run gnustep on top of FreeBSD.
I’ll hold you to that but do have fun camping too.
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Something like that would be very handy to get software onto vintage machines and make usable boot disks.
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Exactly, Of course a 9pin com port to RS232 converter comes in handy too
can’t forget the db9 to db25 pin converter either:
http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-10-Feet-Cross-Wired-Serial/dp/B00066HL50/ref=pd_sim_147_6?ie=UTF8&dpID=41kuafzkcNL&dpSrc=sims&preST=AC_UL160_SR160%2C160&refRID=1YJP8PCJNMVAVJNVJX09
Found an NEC 8401a-LS too. Not sure yet if it still powers up.
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Nice fine. I bet we could fix it up if it needs a little work.