On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 Tony Duell wrote:
> And of course the Sequent machines that were boxes of 386s running in
> parallel IIRC.
That's right. Their symmetry series were 386 based and the earlier
balance
series were based on the 32016 (or maybe the 32032). I'm not sure if
there
were any other OSs, but the ones we had at Purdue ran Dynix, their
version
of UNIX for these parallel machines.
Now if I could just find one for my collection...
Brian L. Stuart
At 05:30 AM 9/10/03 -0400, you wrote:
>There are plenty of 1950's era computers which are one-of-a-kind. Sadly,
>many of them went to the scrapper.
The ironic thing is that the truely one of a kind (or very limited
production) computers aren't very collectable since few people know of
them. I'm sure the people on this list can name lots of computers that were
had less than 200 produced. And none of them would command the kind of
price thaat the Apple I's do. I ran into the same thing when collecting
cars. I have a 1970 Dodge Challanger RT convertible. The Challangers were
only built for 3 years, convertibles only built for 2 years, only 269 RT
convertibles were ever built. It's a LOT rarer than the Mustangs but
everyone knows about the Mustangs and that's what everyone wants so the
Mustangs are worth more than the Challangers.
Joe
>
>Peace... Sridhar
>
>On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, TeoZ wrote:
>
>> Compared to rare stamp and coin collecting its a drop in the bucket for
>> something thats very rare (but not 1 of a kind)
>> Since I am curious whats the rarest/most expensive computer? I assume its a
>> one of a kind that has some major historical value.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
>> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 11:44 AM
>> Subject: Re: Another Apple 1 for sale
>>
>>
>> > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 ghldbrd(a)ccp.com wrote:
>> >
>> > > He should sell it to those guys in Nigeria, the 419 boys.
>> > >
>> > > Let me know when the price drops to just ludicrous.
>> >
>> > On the contrary, $20K is the going rate for a typical Apple-1. With all
>> > that he's offering, it's actually a good deal.
>> >
>> > --
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>No, because as William said "assuming normal arrangement of the volumes on
>a shelf", volume 1 is to the left of Volume 2, which is left of Volume 3.
>So only the front cover of Volume 1, all of Volume 2, and the back cover
>of Volume 3 need be traversed.
Yeah, as soon as I read his post, I slapped my forehead for having over
looked that fact.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
No, because as William said "assuming normal arrangement of the volumes on a shelf", volume 1 is to the left of Volume 2, which is left of Volume 3. So only the front cover of Volume 1, all of Volume 2, and the back cover of Volume 3 need be traversed.
-----Original Message-----
From: chris [mailto:cb@mythtech.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 2:27 PM
To: Classic Computer
Subject: Re: bugs!
>3 + 5/8 if you're going to start inside V1 and they're all 1" thick and 5
>covers to go through.
wouldn't it be 3.5 inches? Starts page 1 vol 1, ends last page vol 3, so
that's only 4 covers to go thru (back of vol 1, front of vol 2, back of
vol 2, front vol 3).
So that's 3 books of pages at 1 inch per book, 3 * 1 = 3
4 covers at 1/8 per cover is 4 * 1/8 = 4/8 = 1/2
3 inches of text + 1/2 inch of covers = 3.5 inches that the worm travels.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
O.K., I have the bin file in my briefcase. Tonight I will try to burn
a 27c128 at home. I have the chips, I just don't know if they are verifiable.
I'll post tomorrow. So, nobody else need kill time until I fail.
I have 4 programmers, I suspect I won't have a problem, but who knows.
Joe Heck
My PDP-11/83 has recently (past few weeks) been displaying some odd
symptoms. The system is a PDP-11/83 in a "Corporate Cabinet". Most of
the time, when the power switch is turned on, the "run", "halt", "ready"
lights blink on then go off. Also, the Red light on the TK-50 will come
on then go off. You also hear a relay closing and opening in the rack
power supply.
About every 10th try, the DC OK light will come on and the system will
start to power up. Then all the lights go off after a couple of seconds
and the rack power supply relay clunks.
When the switch is turned off, "run", "ready", and the TK-50 light blink
on and you hear what sounds like the relay in the rack power supply
closing and opening.
Kevin, do you remember it doing anything like this when it was yours?
--
Christopher McNabb <cmcnabb(a)4mcnabb.net>
The McNabb Family
I liked the Steve Jobs quote from one of the links off that URL
(http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,20271,00.html)...
"It's the first Apple I built and sold by Apple," claims auctioneer Risley
Sams, who will open the bidding on Tuesday 29 June at 11 a.m. "We offered it
to Steve Jobs, but he said he had such a hard time selling it in the first
place that he didn't really want it.
Paul
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