Wanted in Any Condition
Kodak Supermatic 8 Processor
Kodak Supermatic8 Film Processor
Made in approx 1974
Tabletop or full size version. Also parts and pieces or any information appreciated. Got one taking up space? In bad shape? I'm still interested in it.
I have purchased the below manual and also one more manual for it. I need the machine, parts, and any literature about it.
I'm located in Illinois, USA.
email address: drviragopete@att.net
Phone number (847) 201-1612
Kodak Supermatic 8 Processor
Kodak Supermatic8 Film Processor
Made in approx 1974
Tabletop or full size version. Also parts and pieces or any information appreciated. Got one taking up space? In bad shape? I'm still interested in it.
I have purchased the below manual and also one more manual for it. I need the machine, parts, and any literature about it.
I'm located in Illinois, USA.
email address: drviragopete@att.net
Phone number (847) 201-1612
Wanted in Any Condition
Kodak Video Player VP-1 or VP-X Videoplayer.
I already have one VP-1 machine (I fully restored mine and use it for video transfer bsuiness- wonderful machine). I'm looking for a second machine any condition working or not.
I also have the service manual for this (my copy of the service manual is missing some pages and is a copy of a copy- a better one is appreciated). I'm looking for any parts, whole machine, or partial machine, and literature and manuals about it.
I'm located in Illinois, USA.
email address: drviragopete@att.net
Phone number (847) 201-1612
Kodak Video Player VP-1 or VP-X Videoplayer.
I already have one VP-1 machine (I fully restored mine and use it for video transfer bsuiness- wonderful machine). I'm looking for a second machine any condition working or not.
I also have the service manual for this (my copy of the service manual is missing some pages and is a copy of a copy- a better one is appreciated). I'm looking for any parts, whole machine, or partial machine, and literature and manuals about it.
I'm located in Illinois, USA.
email address: drviragopete@att.net
Phone number (847) 201-1612
Wanted Any condition Considered
Compaq Portable 101709 Luggable PC Vintage
I have 2 of these early PCs and one has been used extensively to run my voicemail system for 1-1/2 years. It died and I'm running on my spare PC exactly alike. I purchased "SAMS Computerfacts" Compaq 101709 manual in brand new complete unused condition. I would like to communicate with someone who has experience fixing the power supply and can point me in the right direction on which parts are common to blow. Right now, I have the schematics and more. A good power supply board to purchase would free up my time rather than trying to troubleshoot the non-working one I have.
Mine blew because I was turning it off just as the timer I had plugged it into was turning it on. The machine says not to turn on/off power quickly. Just bad luck and that acted as a power surge to the system. FYI if you have one never turn the power off / on fast.
The Powersupply is a circuit board which slides out and is replaceable. The problem is it was from 1982 approx and not avail any more. Maybe you have a bad machine that you are parting out? Let me know.
I have been searching for information about PC power supply repair and I see absolutely nothing. It seems everyone from the early days of PCs just buys a new one and scraps the old one. I have found no-one that fixed one themselves. I'm hoping this webpage will help me contact one person who has fixed their own powersupply and knows which components they personally have changed out.
Otherwise, it will be something I will invest heavily in to figure out- just as my dozens of projects from motorcycle repair to tv repair to inventions - resulted from no sources of information about that topic - so I had to figure it out myself. Very time consuming.
I'm located in Illinois, USA
email address: drviragopete@att.net
Phone number (847) 201-1612
Wanted Rhino XR-2 or XR-3 Parts
I own 2ea XR-2 Rhino robotic arm units and 3 Mark III controllers. One of the arms is fully restored. The other one is missing the large aluminum square base. It has a broken hand motor and the wrist gear is plastic and cracked. The other arm is an earlier version and has a metal wrist gear. Any parts for sale would be appreciated.
I am proud to have all of the Apple II software and books for the Rhino XR-3 and works wonderfully. Remembers positions and homes properly. Amazig what a vintage computer can do and sometimes surpasses more sophisticated products.
My XR-2 robots are compatible with XR-3 commands etc as they have the version 4 motors and I suppose the owners either upgraded the motors as a kit or bought it that way. I could use a square base the most as I have purchased several motors and may try to modify it. I would prefer to find the original motors (I need one small one and one large one) as mine have broken gears inside the gear train. I would like to buy even broken motors as there are duplicate identical gears inside and I can combine two bad motors into one good one.
I am missing the hand controllers on my robots but the software operates it fine from the Apple IIe keyboard. Let me know if your have the remote control.
The first B&W photo below shows how mine is - without the base.
The next photo shows it with the base.
Located Illinois, USA
email address: drviragopete@att.net
Phone number (847) 201-1612
I own 2ea XR-2 Rhino robotic arm units and 3 Mark III controllers. One of the arms is fully restored. The other one is missing the large aluminum square base. It has a broken hand motor and the wrist gear is plastic and cracked. The other arm is an earlier version and has a metal wrist gear. Any parts for sale would be appreciated.
I am proud to have all of the Apple II software and books for the Rhino XR-3 and works wonderfully. Remembers positions and homes properly. Amazig what a vintage computer can do and sometimes surpasses more sophisticated products.
My XR-2 robots are compatible with XR-3 commands etc as they have the version 4 motors and I suppose the owners either upgraded the motors as a kit or bought it that way. I could use a square base the most as I have purchased several motors and may try to modify it. I would prefer to find the original motors (I need one small one and one large one) as mine have broken gears inside the gear train. I would like to buy even broken motors as there are duplicate identical gears inside and I can combine two bad motors into one good one.
I am missing the hand controllers on my robots but the software operates it fine from the Apple IIe keyboard. Let me know if your have the remote control.
The first B&W photo below shows how mine is - without the base.
The next photo shows it with the base.
Located Illinois, USA
email address: drviragopete@att.net
Phone number (847) 201-1612
Wanted Complete or just parts or just the Literature
Quadlink by Quadram
Apple II clone card which turns your IBM PC vintage into an Apple II and uses the 360k drive to read and write Apple II diskettes.
I had one in the early nineties. I sold it and regretted selling it. Been looking for one ever since. I did buy one recently and has the card, cables and I still have my old 5.25" backup diskettes for it for both the IBM and Apple II side. The software was called "The Filer" I'm sure my diskettes are still good as all of my old disks work great.
I am missing the literature and without it I would hate to waste this find by hooking it up wrong. Photocopies of the literature or snapshots of how you have your's hooked up would be appreciated.
I have several Apple II cards including Trackstar in 3 different versions. Diamond Trackstar E (I have one) is more compatible etc but I want complete my 20 year search and get this board up and running. You never know it may be my old board which just changed hands several times.
Not too much information about it online. Seems like a forgotten about product. I loved it and it ran everything I ever used it for. Heavily copyprotected software didn't load on Quadlink as it used the IBM diskette drive and couldn't do half track reads. The disks it read and wrote to were fully compatible with real machines like Laser 128 (have one) and Apple IIe and IIc series (have these too).
I remember the yellow and black connector goes to the PC speaker (back then there was just the internal PC speaker and the Apple II sounds used the same speaker and sounded perfect just like the real computer) Theribbon cble went to the disk drive and the connector went to the 360k floppy controller card. I remember it but having literature would help. I've left everything as the seller shipped it to me. I don't know if the yellow and black wire with connector is connected to the correct pins or not. The grey cable goes to the back of the card and to the video card which enables the card to share the same monitor. I forgot if this requires a Hercules TTL monitor (I had a generic hercules card and green screen monitor in the early days when I built my first pc from mail order parts for $399 cheap back then) or if it requires a vga monitor. I never had an ega monitor but my Princeton handled it all. I would like to know which monitor it requires. It also has a composite output so really the fancy monitor setup is not an absolute necessity. I can't remember which card the Diamond or the Quadram outputted to composite video but it wasn't in color only monochrome.
I could be mistaken about the grey cable as it could be a joystick port too. I remember having a real Apple IIe joystick back then and using it on oneof my Apple II emulatoion cards. I'm a little bit fuzzy about how to connect and literature or someone's experience with the card would be helpful.
I'm located in Illinois, USA.
email address: drviragopete@att.net
Phone number (847) 201-1612
Quadlink by Quadram
Apple II clone card which turns your IBM PC vintage into an Apple II and uses the 360k drive to read and write Apple II diskettes.
I had one in the early nineties. I sold it and regretted selling it. Been looking for one ever since. I did buy one recently and has the card, cables and I still have my old 5.25" backup diskettes for it for both the IBM and Apple II side. The software was called "The Filer" I'm sure my diskettes are still good as all of my old disks work great.
I am missing the literature and without it I would hate to waste this find by hooking it up wrong. Photocopies of the literature or snapshots of how you have your's hooked up would be appreciated.
I have several Apple II cards including Trackstar in 3 different versions. Diamond Trackstar E (I have one) is more compatible etc but I want complete my 20 year search and get this board up and running. You never know it may be my old board which just changed hands several times.
Not too much information about it online. Seems like a forgotten about product. I loved it and it ran everything I ever used it for. Heavily copyprotected software didn't load on Quadlink as it used the IBM diskette drive and couldn't do half track reads. The disks it read and wrote to were fully compatible with real machines like Laser 128 (have one) and Apple IIe and IIc series (have these too).
I remember the yellow and black connector goes to the PC speaker (back then there was just the internal PC speaker and the Apple II sounds used the same speaker and sounded perfect just like the real computer) Theribbon cble went to the disk drive and the connector went to the 360k floppy controller card. I remember it but having literature would help. I've left everything as the seller shipped it to me. I don't know if the yellow and black wire with connector is connected to the correct pins or not. The grey cable goes to the back of the card and to the video card which enables the card to share the same monitor. I forgot if this requires a Hercules TTL monitor (I had a generic hercules card and green screen monitor in the early days when I built my first pc from mail order parts for $399 cheap back then) or if it requires a vga monitor. I never had an ega monitor but my Princeton handled it all. I would like to know which monitor it requires. It also has a composite output so really the fancy monitor setup is not an absolute necessity. I can't remember which card the Diamond or the Quadram outputted to composite video but it wasn't in color only monochrome.
I could be mistaken about the grey cable as it could be a joystick port too. I remember having a real Apple IIe joystick back then and using it on oneof my Apple II emulatoion cards. I'm a little bit fuzzy about how to connect and literature or someone's experience with the card would be helpful.
I'm located in Illinois, USA.
email address: drviragopete@att.net
Phone number (847) 201-1612
Wanted Any Condition
Princeton Ultrasync 12" or 14" monitor
I used to have the 12" monitor around 1990-1996 and loved it because it had a 25 pin port on the back. I had two cables one for CGA and one for VGA and I could plug it in and use it for whichever computer I wanted to test.
Mine blew out and I had it professionally repaired- it came back with a note that they fixed a cold solder joint. It lasted a couple months and then died again. I ended up throwing it out but I should not have because it can do modes which other monitors can't I would like to find another one dead or alive any condition.
I don't know if I have the cables still - if you have cables, literature, pinouts, or parts etc I would like to get another one.
It had a very small screen 12" diagonal but the body was long. The colors were excellent except red looked like brown. The maximum resolution was 600x800 and if you went to a higher resolution the screen would distort and have no picture. It looked super sharp and clear having 600x800 on a 12" screen. Very small dot pitch I think it was .28 or maybe .26 even as it surpoassed the resoluton of other monitors which had oblong shaped dots- it had small very hi-res dot pitch - the .28 dot pitch as written below may be a mis-print as it was truly a great monitor. For its time, it was a very good monitor and I got alot of use from it. The top would be very very hot as it packed alot of electonics in a small case.
I had the one with 12" screen. the next model up was identical in features and was the Princeton Ultrasync 14".
I would be glad to find either the 14" or 12" in any condition.
I'm located in Illinois, USA.
email address: drviragopete@att.net
Phone number (847) 201-1612
Princeton Ultrasync 12" or 14" monitor
I used to have the 12" monitor around 1990-1996 and loved it because it had a 25 pin port on the back. I had two cables one for CGA and one for VGA and I could plug it in and use it for whichever computer I wanted to test.
Mine blew out and I had it professionally repaired- it came back with a note that they fixed a cold solder joint. It lasted a couple months and then died again. I ended up throwing it out but I should not have because it can do modes which other monitors can't I would like to find another one dead or alive any condition.
I don't know if I have the cables still - if you have cables, literature, pinouts, or parts etc I would like to get another one.
It had a very small screen 12" diagonal but the body was long. The colors were excellent except red looked like brown. The maximum resolution was 600x800 and if you went to a higher resolution the screen would distort and have no picture. It looked super sharp and clear having 600x800 on a 12" screen. Very small dot pitch I think it was .28 or maybe .26 even as it surpoassed the resoluton of other monitors which had oblong shaped dots- it had small very hi-res dot pitch - the .28 dot pitch as written below may be a mis-print as it was truly a great monitor. For its time, it was a very good monitor and I got alot of use from it. The top would be very very hot as it packed alot of electonics in a small case.
I had the one with 12" screen. the next model up was identical in features and was the Princeton Ultrasync 14".
I would be glad to find either the 14" or 12" in any condition.
I'm located in Illinois, USA.
email address: drviragopete@att.net
Phone number (847) 201-1612
Information Wanted
I have a printer Tektronix Phaser II SDX which is a dye sublimation printer 300dpi. I was given this printer while I was helping that company with the upcoming Y2K bug - software debugging. While working there in 1999 I was given a non-working printer and found it to be jammed up with bits of paper and more. Now it works perfect. I purchased about 20 rolls of 4-color ribbon transfer plastics and installed one and works perfect. So far I have printed about 20 photographic quality 8x10 prints with it. No dots at all looks just like a photo. The new photo paper machines at big chains use dye sublimation technology and those prints you get from your photographic camera are from most places not real photos in the old fashioned sense of the word. They are printouts. So my printer gives the same photo output and looks exactly like a department store photo. Even the paper it prints on is the same.
I currently have one small box of paper and tons and tons of rolls of 4-colors of dye sublimation . you might say I have lots of ink but no paper. Its not really ink. Its thin plastic like cellophane in different colors and the thermal head heats it up and causes it to evaporate then get deposited on the paper and it dyes the paper in that tiny spot.
The paper box I have is Tektronix and is 016-1174-00 and is very glossy on one side and just a little less glossy on the other side. It is not paper. It is plastic I think polyester but I'm not sure. At one point I tried to make an iron-on for a t-shirt with it but the plastic just warped and nothing was transfered to the cotton t-shirt.
I am interested in using this printer for making t-shirts as dye sublimation is famous for that. I can't find any information about sources for paper (If you have paper for IISD or IISDX let me know) and I don't know if other model of Tektronix paper will work with it. I want the plastic photographic as I have a color laser printer for my other printing needs. I was truly impressed with my color laser printouts. I recently fixed this Tektronics and it puts my color laser printer to shame. The resolution is not high but it does make photographic perfect prints.
I called Tektronix and Xerox (made an exact sister model of this printer) and this model of printer is very out of date and I couldn't find any t-shirt making information or supplies. The marketplace is saturated with using inkjet printers with special cartridges filled with what they are calling dye sublimation inks. The Tektronix is really and truly dye sublimation and they work completely different. Back about 10 years ago or more there was a printer called Fargo Primera I believe mine works in the same principle. Also there are some small mini printers which use a color ribbon and I think those work similar to my printer.
Let me know if you have paper, experiences with this printer, or know how to make t-shirts or mugs with this printer or other plastic ribbon transfer printer. One person told me that I did everything right when I ironed my sheet (as hot as the clothes iron will go) but since I used a cotton t-shirt it didn't take. I should have used a polyester t-shirt. I'm a newbie in making t-shirts, mugs and more and would like to get that going with this printer.
I find almost nothing about this printer on the Internet. The lights all come on when power is turned on. Then when all self tests check out it is ready. It has parallel port, serial port, scsi port, and network port. I use parallel port and the 85MB file it takes to print in its maximum quality takes 9 minutes to download (drivers for all current Windows is downloadable and is very well supported). 3 minutes for the actual print and the paper moves back and forth as each color on the alternating color ribbon (blue, red, yellow, black CMYK) prints over each other on the page. Alignment is perfect due to the interesting drum and gripper mechanism.
I would like to find an extra tray that the ribbon roll goes into. There are a few ribbons I have which are black only. Changing out the ribbon is a very delicate thing - having one tray for black only any one tray for color - saves wasting color ribbon just to print black only. Each ribbon is only good for 100 approx full pages.
Let me know if you have spare parts or supplies in your store-room or answers to my t-shirt questions. The tray I would like to have a spare of is shown with the blue/black roll installed (3rd picture down). I drew a sketch of how the ribbon goes as I had no instructions and had to figure out which direction to roll/unroll etc.
The brand new roll shows the yellow color and the rest of the colors follow in sequence but are not visible unless unrolled. The Tektronix Phaser IISDX ribbons have a black stripe on one side which must be there or it will reject other brands. I have a roll made by Spectre which doesn't have this black line otherwise is the same - doesn't work with that roll. I believe the PXI model and IISD and IISDX are sister printers as they look alike and some circuit boards have the same part numbers etc. The black stripe may not be the same on these models. I believe the paper is probably interchangeable but I'm not sure. I tried printing on regular copy machine paper and the plastic didn't stick to it and only about say 1% of the color saturation is there and blotchy - I first thought my printer was bad when I didn't have the special paper yet- also standard paper makes lint and dust and this printer needs to be very very clean internally. So it doesn't work with regular paper.
Pictured (from left to right) 2ea 35mm Film Recorders, Tektronix printer, laser engraver. 20 years ago that would be hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment. Today it is only worth something to me and the use I put it to.
Also, I have read that the RasterOps CorrectPrint 300 is the same or similar printer with minor differences. I have also read that Xerox had the same or similar printer. I have seen some sites with drivers which are for various operating systems. I'm glad to have this printer as it surpasses any other printer for photoquality new or old.
Location Illinois, USA
email address: drviragopete@att.net
Phone number (847) 201-1612
I have a printer Tektronix Phaser II SDX which is a dye sublimation printer 300dpi. I was given this printer while I was helping that company with the upcoming Y2K bug - software debugging. While working there in 1999 I was given a non-working printer and found it to be jammed up with bits of paper and more. Now it works perfect. I purchased about 20 rolls of 4-color ribbon transfer plastics and installed one and works perfect. So far I have printed about 20 photographic quality 8x10 prints with it. No dots at all looks just like a photo. The new photo paper machines at big chains use dye sublimation technology and those prints you get from your photographic camera are from most places not real photos in the old fashioned sense of the word. They are printouts. So my printer gives the same photo output and looks exactly like a department store photo. Even the paper it prints on is the same.
I currently have one small box of paper and tons and tons of rolls of 4-colors of dye sublimation . you might say I have lots of ink but no paper. Its not really ink. Its thin plastic like cellophane in different colors and the thermal head heats it up and causes it to evaporate then get deposited on the paper and it dyes the paper in that tiny spot.
The paper box I have is Tektronix and is 016-1174-00 and is very glossy on one side and just a little less glossy on the other side. It is not paper. It is plastic I think polyester but I'm not sure. At one point I tried to make an iron-on for a t-shirt with it but the plastic just warped and nothing was transfered to the cotton t-shirt.
I am interested in using this printer for making t-shirts as dye sublimation is famous for that. I can't find any information about sources for paper (If you have paper for IISD or IISDX let me know) and I don't know if other model of Tektronix paper will work with it. I want the plastic photographic as I have a color laser printer for my other printing needs. I was truly impressed with my color laser printouts. I recently fixed this Tektronics and it puts my color laser printer to shame. The resolution is not high but it does make photographic perfect prints.
I called Tektronix and Xerox (made an exact sister model of this printer) and this model of printer is very out of date and I couldn't find any t-shirt making information or supplies. The marketplace is saturated with using inkjet printers with special cartridges filled with what they are calling dye sublimation inks. The Tektronix is really and truly dye sublimation and they work completely different. Back about 10 years ago or more there was a printer called Fargo Primera I believe mine works in the same principle. Also there are some small mini printers which use a color ribbon and I think those work similar to my printer.
Let me know if you have paper, experiences with this printer, or know how to make t-shirts or mugs with this printer or other plastic ribbon transfer printer. One person told me that I did everything right when I ironed my sheet (as hot as the clothes iron will go) but since I used a cotton t-shirt it didn't take. I should have used a polyester t-shirt. I'm a newbie in making t-shirts, mugs and more and would like to get that going with this printer.
I find almost nothing about this printer on the Internet. The lights all come on when power is turned on. Then when all self tests check out it is ready. It has parallel port, serial port, scsi port, and network port. I use parallel port and the 85MB file it takes to print in its maximum quality takes 9 minutes to download (drivers for all current Windows is downloadable and is very well supported). 3 minutes for the actual print and the paper moves back and forth as each color on the alternating color ribbon (blue, red, yellow, black CMYK) prints over each other on the page. Alignment is perfect due to the interesting drum and gripper mechanism.
I would like to find an extra tray that the ribbon roll goes into. There are a few ribbons I have which are black only. Changing out the ribbon is a very delicate thing - having one tray for black only any one tray for color - saves wasting color ribbon just to print black only. Each ribbon is only good for 100 approx full pages.
Let me know if you have spare parts or supplies in your store-room or answers to my t-shirt questions. The tray I would like to have a spare of is shown with the blue/black roll installed (3rd picture down). I drew a sketch of how the ribbon goes as I had no instructions and had to figure out which direction to roll/unroll etc.
The brand new roll shows the yellow color and the rest of the colors follow in sequence but are not visible unless unrolled. The Tektronix Phaser IISDX ribbons have a black stripe on one side which must be there or it will reject other brands. I have a roll made by Spectre which doesn't have this black line otherwise is the same - doesn't work with that roll. I believe the PXI model and IISD and IISDX are sister printers as they look alike and some circuit boards have the same part numbers etc. The black stripe may not be the same on these models. I believe the paper is probably interchangeable but I'm not sure. I tried printing on regular copy machine paper and the plastic didn't stick to it and only about say 1% of the color saturation is there and blotchy - I first thought my printer was bad when I didn't have the special paper yet- also standard paper makes lint and dust and this printer needs to be very very clean internally. So it doesn't work with regular paper.
Pictured (from left to right) 2ea 35mm Film Recorders, Tektronix printer, laser engraver. 20 years ago that would be hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment. Today it is only worth something to me and the use I put it to.
Also, I have read that the RasterOps CorrectPrint 300 is the same or similar printer with minor differences. I have also read that Xerox had the same or similar printer. I have seen some sites with drivers which are for various operating systems. I'm glad to have this printer as it surpasses any other printer for photoquality new or old.
Location Illinois, USA
email address: drviragopete@att.net
Phone number (847) 201-1612
Wanted Dot Matrix Cartridge Re-inker
I have a snapshot of an old ad approximately 1986 from a Computer Magazine.
I would like to find either the "Mac Inker" or some other brand or model of re-inking machine. The Mac Inker was basically a motor with a foam pad. It also had options available for heat transfer inks and more. Let me know what you have. I have never used one or seen one in real life. I only have this advertisement.
I'm located in Illinois, USA.
email address: drviragopete@att.net
Phone number (847) 201-1612
I have a snapshot of an old ad approximately 1986 from a Computer Magazine.
I would like to find either the "Mac Inker" or some other brand or model of re-inking machine. The Mac Inker was basically a motor with a foam pad. It also had options available for heat transfer inks and more. Let me know what you have. I have never used one or seen one in real life. I only have this advertisement.
I'm located in Illinois, USA.
email address: drviragopete@att.net
Phone number (847) 201-1612
