> On July 11, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> > I'd say $100 max. In some ways he should be paying you to remove the
> > RA81's!
>
> Heh. I know a guy in Baltimore who pays real $$$ for RA81 HDAs.
>
> One man's "classic computer" is another organization's "production
> hardware".
>
> -Dave McGuire
>
I totally understand as I know someone that pays real money for them as
well, but that doesn't mean that *I* want to mess with a RA81! My knees are
worth more than the going rate!
And that last statement is what sometimes makes this hobby almost pay for
itself.
Zane
On July 11, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> I'd say $100 max. In some ways he should be paying you to remove the
> RA81's!
Heh. I know a guy in Baltimore who pays real $$$ for RA81 HDAs.
One man's "classic computer" is another organization's "production
hardware".
-Dave McGuire
I think you call up the telco and ask them the question and then they run
some test and report back to you.
>How do you find out the exact number of feet you're out from the CO?
>
>Peace.. Sridhar
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
Regarding wives, computers, and airports
Actually I live across the street from a grass airport. Unlighted no flying
after dark. I've only had 1 plane crash land there and he walked up and
knocked on my door during dinner. He selected our airport because he didn't
want to scratch his airplane on a paved strip. The neighborhood is buying
the airport for a park, instead of more houses.
My wife humors me about computers mainly because I'm not adverse to boats.
The other side of my house is on a lake.
Regarding TZ867 and TZ857 DLT library loaders. I have one of each and want
to get rid of them. Any interest?
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
> I've got a lead on four DG Aviions, CPUs only. They look
> to be pretty clean but I didn't have much time to check them
> out and there was no way to test any of them. They appeared
> to be identical, but I only got to see the back label on one of
> them, which was an AV 4300.
>
> Any interest?
Are these MC88000 based? If so, they're kind of neat boxes. I'd be
interested in them myself, except I'm really financially strapped
myself at the moment. I recall seeing a website for someone who
was interested in collecting systems like this; I think it was
http://www.m88k.org or something like that. IMHO, the MC88000
based Aviion systems are kind of interesting by their obscurity,
as I don't see them at all around by me.
> Also, at the same place there's an RS/6000 J50. Again, just the
> CPU box itself and no way of testing anything.
Probably just an early MCA bus POWER based machine. Again, its
kind of interesting in that I don't see IBM RISC stuff very often,
but in the grand scheme of things, it's not as interesting as
the Aviion stuff (if its 88000 based).
> If someone is seriously interested, let me know what they might
> be worth (sight unseen, I know) and I'll go back with an offer to
> pick 'em up.
>
> They're located in Maryland, if shipping or pick-up is an issue.
Wish I could afford to have you grab some of these in my stead and
have them shipped! All in all, they're probably not worth a whole
lot of money - they're "just" older UNIX workstations. I'd offer
maybe $20-50 per, depending on condition personally in terms of
just being able to pick up some new hardware. Others here will
probably dispute my idea of a "fair" price, though (I'm probably
a bit high off the mark).
--Sean Caron (root(a)diablonet.net) | http://www.diablonet.net
You can buy arcade controls (track balls, joy sticks, buttons, etc.) from
Happ Controls http://www.happcontrols.com/. Not cheap, but they are the real
thing. I have been using a track ball from them for 10 years or so.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Buckle [mailto:geneb@deltasoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 1:28 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Collecting vs. My Wife
<snip>
Zane, I've got a neat little gadget called a Hotshot. It's basically
wooden tabletop box that's got a pair of arcade controller joysticks and a
bunch of buttons on it.
<snip>
The uVax1000 is for real time purposes. A uVax II with a level of memory
management removed. Ran typically VaxEln. Last year I desperately needed
one to expand an industrial control application. We found one.
Wim
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> From: Netdiablo <ndiablo(a)diablonet.net>
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: MicroVAX equipment
> Date: Thursday, July 12, 2001 5:32 AM
>
> > It's been nearly a decade since I really dealt with MicroVAXen,
> > but I came across a guy who has the following:
> >
> > MicroVAX 3600
> > uVAX 1000
> > RA81 (2)
> > RA90
>
> What on earth is a uVAX 1000? I've never heard of that before. I'm
> rather curious to know!
>
> > and some miscellaneous cards, in four cabinets. He got them
> > in as part of a truckload of de-installed equipment and doesn't
> > have any idea what they're worth. I'm at a loss as to what to
> > offer for them, other than (of course) the lowest possible price.
> >
> > Any ideas on the going rate for this type of DEC equipment?
>
> In all honesty, the whole lot is really worth less than $100, unless
> the MicroVAX 3600 has some really nifty equipment (like a SCSI card)
> in it, or that uVAX 1000 is something special, as I really don't know
> what that is.
>
> I'm a little vague on what a RA90 is, but I know the RA81s are huge
> drives, and they should probably consider themselves lucky if you're
> willing to haul them away!
>
> > He's also got a DEC MicroServer and some VT 510's.
>
> VT510s are rather new terminals; they're not actually DEC designed.
> These are "technically" probably worth a little bit on the terminal
> market, since they're not more than a few years old (probably). On
> the used market, however, how much is a relatively standard terminal
> worth?
>
> > The guy was nice enough to give me an RL02K-DC removable
> > disk pack (since he didn't know what it was or what it worked
> > in), so he seems easy to deal with. (The disk pack did not
> > come with the MicroVAX stuff.)
>
> --Sean Caron (root(a)diablonet.net) | http://www.diablonet.net
> You'll never guess why I am getting two large pipe (7.1 down 1.544
> up) ADSLs installed with my /26 block 8;-)
You dirty dogs! Must be nice to live within 14,000 feet of
your central office... I'm 19,473 feet out, so until they
build a mini-CO to hang some DSLAMs in that's closer to home,
cable is my only choice, and as long as certain managers
remain there, I will *not* do business with them.
So I'm hosed...
-dq
I have several (at least 3) complete KDA50s with the top connectors available.
This is a two board set and lets your Q-bus based machine talk to SDI (aka
RAxx series) drives. If anyone on the list wants them let me know, postage
will be 3 lbs priority mail (about $6 in the continental US)
Any not claimed by Monday 5pm PDT go to Ebay, and those that don't sell go
into my VCF West pile.
--Chuck
> The old DECer Henry W. Miller is checking on a set for me... if
> he comes through, they're yours. As long as my 7-track conversions
> manage to "float to the top"...
thanks! I've sent some mail to John Bradtanau as well, to see if there
were any 7 track head assemblies for TU10's in the stuff he still has
>from the DEC FS warehouse stuff that he bought.
I wonder if Tim Shoppa has anything set up for reading 7 track media.
He hasn't said much on the topic, or about the techniques he had developed
for one pass tape reading.
