Tursi Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 3 hours ago, Gary from OPA said: well sadly, just spent almost $500 today on ebay, to get two working ti99/4a consoles themselves from two sellers in canada, black and silver one in quebec and beige one in ontario, as i can't find any of my actual 99/4a consoles in my storage units, and my only other one is down in dominican republic still. hopefully, they will not take too long to get here, then i can get at least two systems up and running again, with all the cards that i have in my various pe-box's. ... I just wish there was more sellers in canada with some good ti99 tech, as the shipping and ups charges from usa is a killer, even for the two consoles i just bought, only one was affordable the ontario one as the seller had it set to canadian currency, and shipping as canadian, the quebec one was crazy, as he had it set to usa dollars and shipping as international, so i got ripped off by ebay for conversion of the money and on shipping, not fair to felllow canuck. Dude... ask around a bit more. I'm in Canada and would happily have shipped you a console or two for the cost of shipping. $500 is way too much. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 (edited) @shift838 might have something in mind for your peb connection(s). Edited January 1 by GDMike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 9 hours ago, Gary from OPA said: what i would like to do, is connect two pe-boxes together to one console, so i have more card slots, i done that before, but sadly i need the bridge piece, anyone know of a good deal for one that allows you to plug in two flexcable firehoses to the console? Jim Fetzner’s ( @Ksarul’s ) PEB cable splitter should do the job. ...lee 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 10 hours ago, Gary from OPA said: well sadly, just spent almost $500 today on ebay, to get two working ti99/4a consoles themselves from two sellers in canada, black and silver one in quebec and beige one in ontario, as i can't find any of my actual 99/4a consoles in my storage units, and my only other one is down in dominican republic still. hopefully, they will not take too long to get here, then i can get at least two systems up and running again, with all the cards that i have in my various pe-box's. what i would like to do, is connect two pe-boxes together to one console, so i have more card slots, i done that before, but sadly i need the bridge piece, anyone know of a good deal for one that allows you to plug in two flexcable firehoses to the console? Also even tho i have 5 ti99 pe-box's, i only have two flexcable cards, i seen the new replacement card, what is the best deal to get one of those, or can i find any original flexcable cards still? I just wish there was more sellers in canada with some good ti99 tech, as the shipping and ups charges from usa is a killer, even for the two consoles i just bought, only one was affordable the ontario one as the seller had it set to canadian currency, and shipping as canadian, the quebec one was crazy, as he had it set to usa dollars and shipping as international, so i got ripped off by ebay for conversion of the money and on shipping, not fair to felllow canuck. I have some nice PEB Splitter cards that connect to the side port and allow two Flex Cables to connect to the TI. The price isn't insane either. . .I removed the third connector point in the picture once we determined that connecting one of the CF7 devices there wouldn't allow a PEB branch at all. Solder a 44-pin connector to it, put it in a project box or on supports, and two-PEB operation is easy. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 9 hours ago, Tursi said: Dude... ask around a bit more. I'm in Canada and would happily have shipped you a console or two for the cost of shipping. $500 is way too much. Thanks, if you still want to donate something TI99 related, I would not mind having a 3rd console or something useful, there alot of little things I need to get, I don't even have a X/Basic cartridge anymore. Lucky, I have a PGram+ at least in one of my PEBOX's and my AVPC card, now I just have to get a converter of the 15khz RGB to VGA or HDMI for it. as 80columns on 10" TI99 monitor is not the best! As for two consoles I bought, once you remove all the ebay charges and shipping costs and taxes they tack on, it was not to bad, the beige one was $149.99 CAD and the black/silver one was $109.68 USD, and both are been fully tested and in mint condition, I could had found cheaper ones on ebay but they were either in the USA or completely untested and for parts, I didn't want to risk it, or end up paying thru the nose for ups brokerage fees. i still in the end got hit hard with the black/silver one even tho the seller in canada, ebay treated it like a usa to canada one, and since i put in offer for it, i was force to pay for it after he accepted, otherwise i would been happy just with beige one for now, which got treated correctly as canadian to canadian sale. anyway, many thanks for offering, i am located now in Scarborough M1K5J7 postal code, so let me know if you have anything you want to donate to me, i will cover the cost of the shipping since you are in canada, sent me a PM. And a happy new year to you. Thanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 2 hours ago, Ksarul said: I have some nice PEB Splitter cards that connect to the side port and allow two Flex Cables to connect to the TI. The price isn't insane either. . .I removed the third connector point in the picture once we determined that connecting one of the CF7 devices there wouldn't allow a PEB branch at all. Solder a 44-pin connector to it, put it in a project box or on supports, and two-PEB operation is easy. I like the older design. Did you figure out why the CF7+ would not work? or was anything else tested. I for sure need to get at least one, if not two. I see that arcadeshopper has 3 still in stock, so might grab them from there, unless you have better direct deal. I still have two find two more flexcable cards, or see when shift838 replacements will be available again. Need to finally also get the H4000 prototype board you send me built up, i finally got that back recently, after my legal issues with nintendo, at least i didn't lose it. But that can't wait, as I in those stack of PEBOXs, almost each one has an horizon ramdisk already, including an original H4000, all i need to do is get new batteries working for them, as lucky i remembered to junk them before storaging them 13 years ago, so lucky there no leaked mess to clean up! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 14 hours ago, Gary from OPA said: well sadly, just spent almost $500 today on ebay, to get two working ti99/4a consoles themselves from two sellers in canada, black and silver one in quebec and beige one in ontario, as i can't find any of my actual 99/4a consoles in my storage units, and my only other one is down in dominican republic still. hopefully, they will not take too long to get here, then i can get at least two systems up and running again, with all the cards that i have in my various pe-box's. what i would like to do, is connect two pe-boxes together to one console, so i have more card slots, i done that before, but sadly i need the bridge piece, anyone know of a good deal for one that allows you to plug in two flexcable firehoses to the console? Also even tho i have 5 ti99 pe-box's, i only have two flexcable cards, i seen the new replacement card, what is the best deal to get one of those, or can i find any original flexcable cards still? I just wish there was more sellers in canada with some good ti99 tech, as the shipping and ups charges from usa is a killer, even for the two consoles i just bought, only one was affordable the ontario one as the seller had it set to canadian currency, and shipping as canadian, the quebec one was crazy, as he had it set to usa dollars and shipping as international, so i got ripped off by ebay for conversion of the money and on shipping, not fair to felllow canuck. I have flex cables, TI's and you can also order shift838's iocard (flexcable replacement) through me.. Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 21 minutes ago, arcadeshopper said: I have flex cables, TI's and you can also order shift838's iocard (flexcable replacement) through me.. Greg Yeah, I browsed your shop earlier, most likely I will put together a nice big order thru you, i always been happy with your service in the pass, but the shift838 iocard was listed as out of stock. I also would like to get TIPI PEB card again, when are those going to be available. I will put together a wish list of stuff i need and send you a PM, and we see when I can arrange to place an order, most likely will be in the middle of Jan. around the 10 to 15. Hope you had a great christmas and looking forward to 2024 like me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 4 hours ago, Gary from OPA said: I like the older design. Did you figure out why the CF7+ would not work? or was anything else tested. May or may not be related ... but the CF7+ (or my one at least) seems to hold the CRUIN signal high when the unit is not being addressed, which prevents you reading from any other CRU device on the sideport. Had to add a 1K series resistor to my CF7+ CRUIN output in order for it to coexist with the 9901 on a sideport EPROM programmer that I built. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 1 hour ago, Stuart said: May or may not be related ... but the CF7+ (or my one at least) seems to hold the CRUIN signal high when the unit is not being addressed, which prevents you reading from any other CRU device on the sideport. Had to add a 1K series resistor to my CF7+ CRUIN output in order for it to coexist with the 9901 on a sideport EPROM programmer that I built. that makes sense, could be the reason it didn't like sharing a pebox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Nice to see that some of your equipment survived. Great stack of books and manuals, too! What are you most looking forward to doing once you get a system or two set up? Did any of your disks survive the storage sands of time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 6 minutes ago, InsaneMultitasker said: Nice to see that some of your equipment survived. Great stack of books and manuals, too! What are you most looking forward to doing once you get a system or two set up? Did any of your disks survive the storage sands of time? i want to start doing some coding again, piece together some of the things i was working on. Sadly, most of my stuff on 135mb and 270mb syquest hard drive cartridges, but it seems my external syquest drives are gone, so i have no way to read them, at least i still have my WHTech Scsi card and cables. I also need to recreate working floppies for my pgram+ card to get it up and running, but the few floppies i do have seem to be working fine, 13 years of cold clean controlled storage seem to be ok on them. there is some manuals and printouts of my own source code that i want to scan in (which didn't get archived correctly for some reason), not much, need a good OCR app. some of my tech manuals i have might not been public yet either or if there is, bad scans on them, i like to improve on that, so I going to look thru the archives that are online, and see what i can add to them i will. I mainly want to get back to designing some hardware, building on what others have done, and adding something new and worthwhile, since i have time now and a permanent home, and I looking at starting a weekly video podcast of some sort as well, just to chatter about retro things and maybe do some interviews, and demo some of the toys i have, and projects i am going to work on. getting there slowly, going to take a week or so to gather up all the missing pieces i need, order them from places online, and build some more desks, and test everything, replace some caps here and there, and fit out new batteries in everything like my horizon and pgram and tripletech cards, etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 8 minutes ago, Gary from OPA said: Sadly, most of my stuff on 135mb and 270mb syquest hard drive cartridges, but it seems my external syquest drives are gone, so i have no way to read them, at least i still have my WHTech Scsi card and cables My systems are fitted with internal EZ135 drives and platters (cartridges) though I am "close" to retiring them in favor of the SCSI2SD Zulu microsd emulation devices. I use an Adaptec card & internal EZ135 in an older PC to read and back up the platters to raw images. If you find that you will need a EZ135, I may be able to help down the road. Maybe look into a TIPI to be able to migrate files, unless you already have another solution to transfer files. 14 minutes ago, Gary from OPA said: etting there slowly, going to take a week or so to gather up all the missing pieces i need, order them from places online, and build some more desks, and test everything, replace some caps here and there, and fit out new batteries in everything like my horizon and pgram and tripletech cards, etc. A slow and steady approach makes for a positive outcome. Check the cards, replace caps where needed, and don't allow a bad card to take out a bunch of other good cards. 13 years is a lot of time for nostalgia to make things seem new again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 6 hours ago, Gary from OPA said: Yeah, I browsed your shop earlier, most likely I will put together a nice big order thru you, i always been happy with your service in the pass, but the shift838 iocard was listed as out of stock. I also would like to get TIPI PEB card again, when are those going to be available. I will put together a wish list of stuff i need and send you a PM, and we see when I can arrange to place an order, most likely will be in the middle of Jan. around the 10 to 15. Hope you had a great christmas and looking forward to 2024 like me. both are available let me know when you want the io card and I'll put it in stock tipi's set to preorder as /i'm building them to order takes a week or so for me to do that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 1 hour ago, InsaneMultitasker said: My systems are fitted with internal EZ135 drives and platters (cartridges) though I am "close" to retiring them in favor of the SCSI2SD Zulu microsd emulation devices. I use an Adaptec card & internal EZ135 in an older PC to read and back up the platters to raw images. If you find that you will need a EZ135, I may be able to help down the road. Maybe look into a TIPI to be able to migrate files, unless you already have another solution to transfer files. A slow and steady approach makes for a positive outcome. Check the cards, replace caps where needed, and don't allow a bad card to take out a bunch of other good cards. 13 years is a lot of time for nostalgia to make things seem new again. yes, i going to test one card at a time, to make sure it working, before i filled up a peb of cards. since i still have my whtech scsi card, i would rather setup a external drive and just access my cartridges directly, and over time mirror them over. i need to get a tipi as well again. i still have some brand-new ez135 cartridges still in their shrink wrap, never used! i want to look into getting something that works on my myarc hfdc as well as emulation device, since i don't have any rll/mfm drives anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 4 minutes ago, arcadeshopper said: both are available let me know when you want the io card and I'll put it in stock tipi's set to preorder as /i'm building them to order takes a week or so for me to do that thanks, most likely it will be between the 10th to 15th, when i have some spare funds in my paypal, i will send you a PM here, and let you know my shopping list, most likely it will be at least an io card, tipi, and sams and finalgrom, and peb joiner/splitter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Speculation, postulation, and unsolicited friendly advice. (Special shout-out to the glowies surely watching this forum.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 14 minutes ago, OLD CS1 said: Speculation, postulation, and unsolicited friendly advice. (Special shout-out to the glowies surely watching this forum. I am not involved with this stuff. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 On 1/1/2024 at 9:35 PM, InsaneMultitasker said: My systems are fitted with internal EZ135 drives and platters (cartridges) though I am "close" to retiring them in favor of the SCSI2SD Zulu microsd emulation devices. I ordered a Zulu board and mounting bracket and power connector from their local Canadian distributor, DECromancer which located in Toronto, so it should not take long to get to Scarberia, at least now i can use my whtech scsi card with a microsd. still have to track down ez135 and sq270 drives, the 270 more important as those disks have info on them, the 135 not so much, but seems the 270 drives are rarer. Now, I just need to find a proper MFM to SD emulator at affordable price so i can use my Myarc HDFC as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 (edited) https://www.pdp8online.com/mfm @Gary from OPA I've built 3. Edited January 3 by RickyDean spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 3 minutes ago, RickyDean said: https://www.pdp8online.com/mfm @Gary from OPA I've built 3. I was looking at them, the place here in Toronto, that I just ordered the ZuluSCSI from, sometimes has them, but want around $249 CAD for it: https://decromancer.ca/mfm-emulator/ Might be easier to I guess build one myself, but with usa customs and shipping charges i need to find one spot i can order all the parts from, as if i need to order from digikey and other places, the cost to get it to canada will be in the end a killer. I also looked at this: https://www.drem.info/ which i can buy direct from the canadian supplier at $399 CAD -- yikes, a little costly as well. but looks nice it does both HDD and FDD - well something to look into more, when i can afford it, at that price might be cheaper to find an actual working 20mb or 40mb seagate mfm spinning hard drive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 4 minutes ago, Gary from OPA said: I was looking at them, the place here in Toronto, that I just ordered the ZuluSCSI from, sometimes has them, but want around $249 CAD for it: https://decromancer.ca/mfm-emulator/ Might be easier to I guess build one myself, but with usa customs and shipping charges i need to find one spot i can order all the parts from, as if i need to order from digikey and other places, the cost to get it to canada will be in the end a killer. I also looked at this: https://www.drem.info/ which i can buy direct from the canadian supplier at $399 CAD -- yikes, a little costly as well. but looks nice it does both HDD and FDD - well something to look into more, when i can afford it, at that price might be cheaper to find an actual working 20mb or 40mb seagate mfm spinning hard drive! There are BOM listings on that website, you should be able to order from one source, at least for most of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 19 minutes ago, RickyDean said: There are BOM listings on that website, you should be able to order from one source, at least for most of it. Seems the best for canada is the Mouser BOM link, comes to $169.98 CAD for the parts. Then it seems the only thing missing would be bare the MFM board itself that is needed, but I don't see any place to order it, only a mention that is around $15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 1 minute ago, Gary from OPA said: Seems the best for canada is the Mouser BOM link, comes to $169.98 CAD for the parts. Then it seems the only thing missing would be bare the MFM board itself that is needed, but I don't see any place to order it, only a mention that is around $15 He sells the boards, but you can have them made from his gerbers, I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Just now, RickyDean said: He sells the boards, but you can have them made from his gerbers, I believe. i guess i will have to send him an email and ask then. not really worth it to get boards made via the gerbers unless i needed a bunch. thanks i will keep this in mind, for when i ready to get my myarc hdfc running again. all tho still would be fun to have actual real spinning hard drive! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
AtariAge on Instagram
Watch us on YouTube
Chat on Discord
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.