I have unique items and want to know more about community
4 messages · 2013-01-24 → 2013-01-25 · Yahoo Group era · View archive on archive.org
Participants: rp_healy, Eduardo Fuentes, Al Hartman
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1. I have unique items and want to know more about community
rp_healy · Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:46
Hello,
I'm sorry if I'm doing this wrong, I've never joined any online group before. Please let me know if I'm doing this wrong, or I'm in the wrong place. It appears that this group still uses the Sinclair brand of computers. I have some rare items and I would like to know if they have any value. In the 80's my father owned an advertising company and he did lots of work for Timex. He was hired to do all the photos and packaging, ads, etc. for the computers. I was like 12 and had every piece and game for the 1000, 1500, and 2068. It was very cool. Unfortunately, he threw almost everything away. So the only hardware I have left are 2 of the Joysticks, because they were with my atari. I know these are rare. But I do have advertising stuff and I was wondering if they have value.
The main piece is a complete, unfolded box for the 2050 telecommunications modem. Was this modem ever released? I remember the one he took a picture of was just a model (as was every other computer and part when he took the pictures). I never saw a real one. I ask this because the box has a pretty big error on it. On the bullet points on the front it says "adds dozens of uses to your computer", and then the next bullet point says "adds hundreds of uses to your computer". This has to be a one of a kind item. Definitely if the modem never shipped, because they wouldn't have shipped it when the packaging wasn't ready. And he had the account until the computer division folded.
I'll stop here in case I'm in the wrong place.
2. Re: [ts2068] I have unique items and want to know more about community
Eduardo Fuentes · Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:19
Hello,
The modem was released, there are some out there.
There are westridge 2050 too, they are the same modems. Westridge made them for Timex and when Timex closed its home computer division they sold them with their own brand.
I think your advertising things have mostly historical value
Can you take pictures or scan the box? May be here in Argentina an informatics museum can have interest in it. I can contact them if you want to.
Regards,
Eduardo.
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De: rp_healy <[email]>
Para: [email]
Enviado: miércoles, 23 de enero de 2013 22:46
Asunto: [ts2068] I have unique items and want to know more about community
Hello,
I'm sorry if I'm doing this wrong, I've never joined any online group before. Please let me know if I'm doing this wrong, or I'm in the wrong place. It appears that this group still uses the Sinclair brand of computers. I have some rare items and I would like to know if they have any value. In the 80's my father owned an advertising company and he did lots of work for Timex. He was hired to do all the photos and packaging, ads, etc. for the computers. I was like 12 and had every piece and game for the 1000, 1500, and 2068. It was very cool. Unfortunately, he threw almost everything away. So the only hardware I have left are 2 of the Joysticks, because they were with my atari. I know these are rare. But I do have advertising stuff and I was wondering if they have value.
The main piece is a complete, unfolded box for the 2050 telecommunications modem. Was this modem ever released? I remember the one he took a picture of was just a model (as was every other computer and part when he took the pictures). I never saw a real one. I ask this because the box has a pretty big error on it. On the bullet points on the front it says "adds dozens of uses to your computer", and then the next bullet point says "adds hundreds of uses to your computer". This has to be a one of a kind item. Definitely if the modem never shipped, because they wouldn't have shipped it when the packaging wasn't ready. And he had the account until the computer division folded.
I'll stop here in case I'm in the wrong place.
3. Re: [ts2068] I have unique items and want to know more about community
Al Hartman · Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:18
Zebra Systems, Inc. and E. Arthur Brown (among others) sold the Westridge
modems after Timex left the computer business. There are instructions out
there to modify the modem circuitry to break out the RS-232 interface to
attach a faster modem to the unit. The Zebra Disk System also included a
RS-232 Interface. Zebra offered a terminal program that used hi-res graphics
to provide more characters on the screen and could potentially support
faster modems.
http://www.timexsinclair.org/code/WC2050SerialConversionHack/
Al
From: Eduardo Fuentes
Hello,
The modem was released, there are some out there.
There are westridge 2050 too, they are the same modems. Westridge made them
for Timex and when Timex closed its home computer division they sold them
with their own brand.
I think your advertising things have mostly historical value
Can you take pictures or scan the box? May be here in Argentina an
informatics museum can have interest in it. I can contact them if you want
to.
Regards,
Eduardo.
4. Re: I have unique items and want to know more about community
rp_healy · Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:35
Thank you both for responding. I'll send pictures as soon as my wife is home and can explain what the hell she did to our computer. She has like 6 image viewing programs going!
--- In [email], Al Hartman wrote:
>
> Zebra Systems, Inc. and E. Arthur Brown (among others) sold the Westridge
> modems after Timex left the computer business. There are instructions out
> there to modify the modem circuitry to break out the RS-232 interface to
> attach a faster modem to the unit. The Zebra Disk System also included a
> RS-232 Interface. Zebra offered a terminal program that used hi-res graphics
> to provide more characters on the screen and could potentially support
> faster modems.
>
> http://www.timexsinclair.org/code/WC2050SerialConversionHack/
>
> Al
>
> From: Eduardo Fuentes
>
> Hello,
> The modem was released, there are some out there.
> There are westridge 2050 too, they are the same modems. Westridge made them
> for Timex and when Timex closed its home computer division they sold them
> with their own brand.
> I think your advertising things have mostly historical value
> Can you take pictures or scan the box? May be here in Argentina an
> informatics museum can have interest in it. I can contact them if you want
> to.
> Regards,
> Eduardo.
>
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