Hi Folks,
As many of you know, the venerable Mike Quinn Electronics in San
Leandro, CA (down by the Oakland Airport) closed last Saturday with
virtually no advance notice. If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area,
you know Mike Quinn is the one of the very last of the nitty gritty
electronics salvage shops left, with an emphasis on gritty.
I stopped by today, and mentioned to Maurice, the owner, that a lot
of people would have liked to have had one last shot at a visit. So,
he has extented an invitation to y'all to visit next week, Tuesday
through Friday February 7-10, 2006, during normal business hours, for
one last shopping spree. He is trying to find a buyer for the stock
in the store. This is almost certainly the last chance to visit. If
you can, it's worth doing whatever you have to do to make the
pilgrimage. Buy some stuff to thank Maurice for keeping it going all
this time.
There are zillions of connectors and components, heaps of
transformers and power supplies, scads of cables and keyboards and
monitors and other PC junk, a jet fighter console or two, a couple of
early 80's HP desktop computers (the ones with built-in BASIC, can't
recall the model numbers), lots of relays, and much more, all
arranged in an archaeologically interesting and un-seismically-safe
way. If you need it, they have it, and they might even be able to
find it.
Mike Quinn Electronics
401 McCormick Street (at the corner of Adams and McCormick)
San Leandro, CA 94577
Brian
A few days ago, someone asked about TRADIC. Tonight I stumbled upon a mention of this computer on page 204 of the book "Crystal Fire" (Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, 1997). The authors wrote, "In January 1954 Whippany engineers built a fully transistorized computer for the Air Force. Called TRADIC (for TRAnsistorized DIgital Computer), it used 700 point-contact transistors and more than 10,000 germanium crystal rectifiers in its circuits. Capable of performing a million logical operations every second, TRADIC was the first completely solid-state computer; it approached the speed of computers based on vacuum tubes."
By "Whippany" they meant the Whippany, N.J. location of Bell Labs.
I'm cleaning off my workbench and don't need this paperweight:
Archive 5945L-3 QIC drive with daughter-board.
It's a 60 mb drive but the card had no useful numbers.
I suspect it's a QIC-02 to QIC-36 adapter.
If anyone's still using such things, let me know, it's available!
Jeff Jonas jeffj at panix.com
Well, they may not be exactly "classic" but they were interesting
machines in their time...
I have two (2) SGI Origin 2000 systems.... It's an 8 node, 195Mhz
R10000, 512Mbyte, CD, 4Gbyte disk..
Has two HVD (high voltage differential as opposed to the current
LVD ).. interfaces on each... and a PCI card adapter.. and a bunch
of cables for connecting external disks and whatnot.
Both are free for the taking and are located in Tucson..., and both
were working when last turned off... stored in an air-conditioned
corporate office.
I'll help you load one or both onto your truck !!
Mike
I listed a CRT on ebay and received no bids. If anybody in the US would
like to pay for shipping, you can have it.
I was told it was a replacement CRT for a TRS-80 (model 3 or 4, I guess)
>from the guy who gave it to me. It is unused and thus has no burn in.
Search ebay for auction #120193025277. Or you can view a greater
variety of full scale images here:
http://home.pacbell.net/frustum/ebay/tube/
Even if you don't have a trs-80 with a dead tube, perhaps you can turn
it into a cool large screen vectrex instead.
Good Morning Mark
Have you had any luck or info on the Ricoh RH5500 drive.
Thanks
Colin
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-------------- Original message from "Paxton Hoag" <innfoclassics at gmail.com>: --------------
> One of my favorite reference magazines was Mini-Micro Systems which
> published from 1976 to 1989 by the Cahners Publications. They printed
> 10 issues a year along with a Spring and Fall Peripherals Digest. I
> think Starting in June 1984 they printed a Mini-Micro computers
> special issue.
>
> I have one copy left, the 1983 Fall Peripherals digest. It is what I
> was looking for when Jerry was trying to identify the CDC/QD drive he
> had.
>
> Unfortunately the model numbers and what is printed on the drive don't
> correspond (and from what I remember never did)
>
Hi, Paxton
well you might be right on that. I have looked high and low
and seem to keep coming up with different numbers for the drives.
Here is what is listed on Mfaris site. for CDC and MPI (both names
are on the label).
http://www.mfarris.com/floppy/mpi.htmlhttp://www.mfarris.com/floppy/cdc.html
- jerry
A while back a friend gave me a big tub of pins his father was going
to toss out. His dad did sales and marketing for Zenith, I believe,
and had these pins from a CES show in the early 80s. I've laid them
all out and taken some pics:
http://flickr.com/photos/chiclassiccomp/sets/72157603430282899/
There are many recognizable names in there, some rare ones (Esprit!)
and some I have no idea what they are. Flickr users who can name some
of the oddballs feel free to add Flickr notes to the pics to ID them.
You'll probably want to view the pics full size, or at least larger
than they display by default.
j
--
silent700.blogspot.com
Retrocomputing and collecting in the Chicago area:
http://chiclassiccomp.org
One of my favorite reference magazines was Mini-Micro Systems which
published from 1976 to 1989 by the Cahners Publications. They printed
10 issues a year along with a Spring and Fall Peripherals Digest. I
think Starting in June 1984 they printed a Mini-Micro computers
special issue.
I have one copy left, the 1983 Fall Peripherals digest. It is what I
was looking for when Jerry was trying to identify the CDC/QD drive he
had.
Unfortunately the model numbers and what is printed on the drive don't
correspond (and from what I remember never did)
They have sections on drives, in fact they have separate sections
listing 8", 5 1/4" and Micro Drives. The 5 1/4 " drive listing has 39
makers of internal and external 5 1/4" drives, including simple specs;
sides, capacity, tracks, TPI, access time, transfer rate, dimensions
and model numbers.
Similarly for hard drives of all sizes (14" to 3") and removable cart
drives. They also had a great reference section on Terminals and
Printers. They are great reference magazines for collectors or for
just identifying equipment.
The collection is one of the things I miss the most, losing them in a
house fire.
Doing an Internet search I discovered WorldCat.org which indicates
there is a Microfiche set at Oregon State University in Corvallis. I
will have to go look.
So does anyone have a set or the Microfiche? I think anyone who has a
museum should think of looking for this magazine, especially the
product digests for reference.
--
Paxton Hoag
Astoria, OR
USA
