Did anyone hear that some bureaucrat, in charge of purchasing for the
city of Los Angles, has sent a letter to all of the city's suppliers
of equipment, asking them not to use the "insenstive" words "master"
and "slave" in relation to equipment sold to the city? Maybe this
means that there will be a glut of politically incorrect surplus
computer equipment and documentation available there. Of course,
they'd probably recycle it into scrap so as to not risk offending
purchasers... too bad they don't just recycle the political
correctness into something else.
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Richard Boyd is offering a Cromemco Z-2D, a Lear-Siegler ADM-3A and an
old-assed printer to whomever can come and haul it away before their
company moves.
I don't know where in England they are. You should contact Richard
directly.
Reply-to: <mechelcon.ltd(a)virgin.net>
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:41:32 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
From: Mechelcon <mechelcon.ltd(a)virgin.net>
To: vcf(a)siconic.com
Subject: Vintage Computers
Dear Sellam,
We are a small company in England who are still in possession of the
following.
1No:- Cromemco Z-2D (Model CS2)
Serial No:- 20789
1No:- Lear Siegler ADM-3A
Serial No:- 80021
1No:- Anadex Printer (Model DP-8000)
Serial No:- E 04511
We extensively used them during the early 80's to calculate heating and
cooling loads on buildings as we are an air conditioning and building
services company. The former owner of our company was actively involved in
the development of the HEVACoMP software, a programme used for these
calculations. It is all in very good condition and as far as we know it
still works, although none of us now can remember how it is operated!
We also have many original floppy disks of different software and some of
the original printed matter/operation manuals of the items above. We are in
the process of moving offices and really don't want to take this old
equipment with us. Please contact us with a sugestion of how we may get it
to you if you want it, or if there is anyone in England you know of who is
also interested in vintage computers. This equipment would be free to
whoever wants it, but must arrange thier own transportation of the equipment
Kind regards
Richard Boyd
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Pat, I had sales brochures from MDB systems that I sent along to Al to
scan in and place on the website. From there they were going to another
person on this list that requested them. Check Al's website to see if he
got a chance to post the MDB stuff, and if that fails, we can see if the
stuff is still with Al, or got forwarded to the next person (whom we can
then ask about)
Joe Heck
I just coughed up $18.45 (9.95+8.50 s&h) for a new in box Asantefast Nubus
10/100 adapter, seller seems to have more. No sane reason I can think of to
buy one of these, so hurry and get yours while they last.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3060750476
I've just acquired a MLSI-DB11 (produced by MDB), which is a QBUS
adaptor that sort-of looks like an SMD disk controller. I'm not quite
sure if it's that, or something else. The closest thing I've found to
what it is the DEC DB11-H adaptor, which I can't find any description
of anywhere.
The MDB card is a dual-height QBUS card with a 60-ish pin connector, 20
pin connector, and 2 smaller 10 pin headers on it (might be off by a
couple pins on those counts).
Does anyone know 1) what this is and 2) anything about it?
Thanks,
Pat
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Jim:
I am still using my OIS system. I have various manuals all in paper
form. Nothing on Disk. I am always looking for spare parts for my system.
Maybe we can help each other. Please tell me want you need.
I am looking for a rebuild LPS-8. I have several that need some work.
Please email me.
Gordon S. Oppenheimer
gsopp(a)optonline.net
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:27:53 -0800
From: "vrs" <vrs(a)msn.com>
Subject: Re: W076/M452 replacement cards
>>I saw a Teletype 43 at Wacky Willies in north downtown PDX store. No tape
>>attachment. Don't know if it has current loop.
>I have two of those :-). What I need is something with a reader I can turn
>on and off with reader-run.
>
>(BTW, anyone ever solve the replacement ribbon problem for the model 43?)
Wasn't aware there was a problem; I bought a couple of boxes of ribbons a
year or so ago. I'm travelling just now; ping me in a couple of weeks to
remind me, I'll see if I can remember where I bought mine. It was someplace
I googled, I'm sure.
My 43 problem is figuring out where to attach the bloody reader/punch... my
tty doesn't appear to have the reader port referenced in the manual :-(
Mike
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I went scrounging a couple of days ago and found a big box of DC 30
tapes. Is anyone familar with these? Or know of any systems that use them?
I THINK these came from a computerized component tester made by Seimens.
They look like audio cassette tapes but are slightly larger. These tapes
are made entirely of plastic and don't have the metal plate on one side
like the DC 300 tapes, HP-85 tapes or DEC Compactapes. I think the Seimens
component tester may be a rebadged tester make by Analog Devices. At the
same place I found a big pile of Analog Devices plug-ins to mount and
connect various types of ICs and other solid state devices but I didn't
take the time to see if they fit the Siemens marked testers.
Joe
