5 Aug
2023
5 Aug
'23
5:04 p.m.
My holy grail is a Burroughs B1965. I was one of the last people at
Burroughs (Unisys at that point) fixing bugs in the system software on
B1000 (the only one in the Lake Forest, CA office; all of the sys admins
knew of the B1965 there as "my" machine.). My office was filled with
B1000 removable disk packs (different versions of the OS and release
management of the software packages I owned). I loved working with that
machine.
I have boot and maintenance cassettes and a disk pack that I picked up
on eBay. I should have taken and preserved more stuff before I left.
On 8/5/23 4:30 PM, John Herron via cctalk wrote:
For no personally good reason other than the stigma
(and technically
incorrect) being the first PC, the Altair 8800 is my holy Grail. Some day
I'd like to have a real one but they increase in value at the same rate as
my income lol so not likely going to happen. It's a neat system though and
like a lot of people I like blinken lights and flip switches. Still feels
science fantasy to me.
Less systems being around makes all of these popular systems go up in price
with supply and demand. Not sure what would make the market go down unless
hundreds were found somewhere and flooded the market. But it's interesting
as less kids would have heard of any of these systems so maybe history
becomes less interesting and valuable at some point?
On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 6:21 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> On 8/5/23 15:58, brad(a)techtimetraveller.com wrote:
>> Do you have an emotional attachment to it? I just saw one sell on ebay
> yesterday for $6100. An e-recycler will have a nice payday on your
> Altair.
> No real attachment; it was a useful tool for a time. It took an entire
> weekend with coffee and little sleep to assemble it. And those really
> awful cheap white wires...
>
> I'd have to pull it off the shelf, clean it up and get it working again.
> That's not trivial and I have better uses for my time.
>
> --Chuck
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