At 04:54 PM 11/12/2010, William Donzelli wrote:
>You have no clue about the people you are dealing with.
I'm sure they're regular folks who have their pants put on two legs at
a time, just like the rest of us.
- John
Hi,
see the following pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/iraeus/DECPC04
There you see a modestly rare and completely working DEC PC04 paper tape reader and punch. The unit
is complete with cables. Needs 110V power supply. The frame that goes into the rack *might* be there
ass well.
I checked and used the machine for a while. Did not find any problems. Could be cleaner - that job
is left for the next owner.
It's not my unit. But I can let it go for reasonable money. Shipping anywhere.
If you're interested, email me your offer. If I don't get reasonable offers the machine will end up
on eBay.
Kind regards,
Philipp
--
http://www.hachti.de
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
>> Over a period of 10 years, its not hard to sink $20K into shipping
>> fees alone when you collect stuff that needs to be shipped freight.
>
> Sure if you collect large machines and have them shipped cross country. Most
> of the heavy items I have are local pickups...
Nearly all of my heavy DEC stuff came from The Ohio State University
or businesses around Columbus. I did drive to Dayton once for an
11/750, but I've gotten no item larger than an RL01 or PDP-8/a or
VT-52 from out of state. There was the time I ordered an LA-180, but
I used a "free shipping on your next order" from Newman Computer
Exchange to order that - it came strapped down to a pallet via van
freight from MI, right to my front door. I did use it for consulting
work later (on a locally-sourced 11/23), but at the time, I picked the
heaviest thing for my PDP-8/a that I thought I'd be likely to want.
So I've spent a few hundred on renting lift-gate trucks and such over
the past thirty years, but even a double-H960 PDP-11/34 setup w/drives
and software and docs fit in the back of my 1976 Microbus with room up
front for a passenger/loadie.
I'm sure someone who collects IBM iron has an entirely different story to tell.
-ethan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Philipp Hachtmann <hachti at hachti.de> wrote:
>> what about fan-fold paper tape?
>
> I made a "machine" that is able to fanfold paper tape. Yes, but....
> currently only something like a
> proof of concept. It worked too unprecisely by far. It needs to be
> reconstructed using precision components instead of a mixture of pneumatics,
> a stepper motor, and handcrafted wooden parts :-)
I was thinking about trying to make one myself. I have a case of
rolled paper tape. Any chance you could share a picture or two?
The other thought I had was to shear fan-fold printer paper into
narrow strips, but the paper shear I have access to is not
sufficiently precise to get a consistent tape width.
-chuck
On 11/11/10 15:22, Richard<legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
> I need a TECO command suggestion that will fit in 3 lines of 18 chars
> each.
>
> It would be nice if I could have 5 chars leftover to have "TECO:" or
> "TECO " in there:-)
What should it do?
One thing that I occasionally do is having a list of files in a buffer,
I want to add some cruft before and after each file name, to create
something useful to run as a command file.
Something like this then (without testing, off the top of my head):
<xaiPIP $l-2ci/re=LB:[KAKA]$ga-2dl.-z;>
I can probably come up with more complex versions of that as needed, as
well... :-)
Johnny
If anyone is interested in this, feel free to contact Sharon directly....
HI Bruce,
Thanks for the quick reply. I'm attaching a couple of photos. One
of the pictures shows the Hazeltine monitor (also available) that was
used with the computer. I believe the unit is an Ohio Scientific
C3. Here is a link to an eBay item for an Ohio Scientific ad for a
similar machine. Ours came with a hard disk, but we no longer have it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1979-Ohio-Scientific-C3-C-Computer-29MB-Hardrive-Ad-/19…
What you see in the pics is all we have for the machine. I'd like
your opinion and the opionion of any of your contacts whether I
should continue to try to find this a home, or just pitch it. I
don't want any money for it, but don't really want to pay shipping, either.
Also, FYI, I have some sales literature from the period for OSI
(including some of the Bill Cosby brochures) and a few others, if
anyone is interested.
Thanks again,
Sharon Maule
(309) 231-9237
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