FROM THE AKRON BBS comes the following message, which should be of interest to User Groups.  
 
If you are member of a legitimate (non profit) users group, and would like to manufacture legal copies of the old ORPHANWARE expanison boards, let us know.  We are going to order blank PC boards and make them available to users groups and BBS operators at cost.  You can then sell them and use the profits to help your groups funding needs.  You can save about 70 dollars from the latest advertised cost of the E&T 256K or 30 dollars on a parallel printer board.  How about 30 dollars on the cost of a 64K board.  These savings are typical and will depend on the cost of the chips that you buy.  Let us know in the GENERAL MESSAGE area. 
 
If you are contemplating a disk drive conversion, I will do the 
 
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labor for 25.00 if you will send a working disk drive and the new 
drive mechanics and the required Radio Shack Micro switch.  You 
must also include enough for return shipping.  I have just found 3.5" drives for $61.00 and 5.25" drives for $55.00.  Call Micro Time Data Systems at 213 746 0308.  Your total cost for a conversion is now less than $90.00.  I do not think you can beat than anywhere in the country today.  This is a service of the Akron ADAM Users and is available to anyone who owns an ADAM. 
Send your drive to :

     John Lingrel
     5665 Myers Road
     Akron, OH 44319 
 
If you buy the parts, I will build an 80CVU for 40 bux.  Leave 
PRV MAIL to ID # 111.  You will need to order a ZRT80 kit from 
Digital Research Computers.  Call them at 214-225-2309.  Also, 
you will need to contact the Washington ADAM Users (ID 72 on this 
board for a serial port, unless you already have one beyond the 
one that you will use for your external modem), then you will 
need to contact ALTEX for 1 foot of 60 conductor ribbon cable and 
 
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at least 2 IDE60 connectors, 3 if you want a Y cable. Call them 
at 800-531-5369.  Last you will need a power supply.  Order it 
from JDR at 800 538 5000.  Their part number for the power supply 
is PS-PLUG.  Cost for each part is ZRT-80 = 99.00 (kit), ribbon 
cable = 1.50.  IDE60 = 4.95 each, serial port (talk to Bob Blair 
ID72 on this board, power supply 9.95.  I will provide the case 
and the labor to put it together.  Cost for that is 60.00 + shipping.  I will gaurantee it for 30 days after I have built it assuming that all the parts were good to begin with.  And I will provide the software (TDOS80 in this case).  Anyone having any questions about the 80CVU vs other forms of 80 columns should direct their questions to Bob Blair (President of AWAUG), ID # 72 on this board.  He has done it both ways and has some very interesting conclusions about the 80CVU.  BJ
   
 
Send checks or Money Orders to:
             John Lingrel
            5665 Myers Road
            Akron, OH 44319
 
 
you want a Y cable
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