Museums and other institutions are searching for examples of older
technology to exhibit. Is there a computer in your basement that
qualifies? We tell you who's looking and what they're looking for.
By Daniel Dern , Computerworld, October 03, 2013
http://www.computerworld.com/slideshow/detail/121888
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Hi, All,
While tidying up, I ran across the following..
9316B-4504
KA53895
[GI]7851
I was unable to find anything about this specific part via Google, but
I know it's a 9316, made 51st week of 1978. I suspect it's a
character generator ROM. Might anyone have a list of those?
I can probably toss it in an EPROM programmer and dump it out (once I
figure out what the chip select lines are expecting), but just a line
>from a catalog page or a note from a schematic could save a bit of
fiddling.
Thanks,
-ethan
I have a couple of these to go.
HP Apollo workstation keyboard model 46020A with mouse and cable
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271291267271
HP Apollo workstation keyboard model 46020A
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271291267936
Again, starting price of 1 UK penny.
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Can anyone tell me what kind of connectors these are?
http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/imlac/connectors.jpg
This is on the rear of the Imlac. I need to build a monitor cable to
rig up a Tek X/Y display(the original display is long gone) and I
haven't had much luck finding a mate for the receptacle on this thing.
It'd help immensely to know what they're called :).
Thanks,
Josh
Searching through some boxes, just found several of the DECtape III cartridges I can offer to the world.? All stored since about 1997 in cool dry area.
6 in the original shrink wrap, never opened
3 never used, not in shrink wrap
5 used, apparently data from that time period look to be in good shape
1 case only, no actual tape, I wonder where the tape went?
I can ship USPS flat rate from 94597 for shipping plus a few bucks to make it worth my while to go down to the PO.
Contact me if you are interested, Thanks, Jim
> On 5 Oct 2013, at 1:00 am, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
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> I have several old terminals that have been wrapped in plastic for the last
> 3 decades or so that I'd like to give away: (a) DEC VT-131 (b) DEC VT-241,
> and (c) a Wyse 350. All three have keyboards and original manuals, and all
> were in excellent shape when I put them away. I live in Moreno Valley, CA,
Im interested in the DEC 131. Whats vcf? My email is above.
Daniel
I am proud to report that we've pulled off yet another Vintage
Computer Festival Midwest here in the humble suburbs of Chicago, IL.
I am gathering together links to picture galleries, videos and
presentation materials at our site here:
http://vcfmw.org
We've also got a few of this year's T-shirts left (7 in XL and 3 in
XXL as of this email) if you'd like to sport the lastest in ccmp
fashion - whether you attended or not :)
Enjoy the pics and thanks to all who attended and made the show
happen. We'll see you again next year!
- jht
Hi all --
I got a phone call about a few boxes of Byte and Creative Computing
magazines for a good home in the Orlando area. Contact: James -
407.765.1045. (I'm not involved.)
Hello all, I wanted to move from lurker to...whatever the opposite is by
introducing myself and the Media Archaeology Lab (MAL) I run. I'm thrilled
to discover your listserv as I'm learning a lot just by reading your posts
and I think many of you will be interested in the MAL.
http://mediaarchaeologylab.com
Founded in 2009 and housed on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus,
the Media Archaeology Lab houses obsolete media from the early twentieth
century to the twenty-first century for hands-on research, teaching, and
research creation.
I've come to see that the MAL is a remarkable configurable conceptual
object that, depending on how you approach it, houses items for research
and teaching, items that actually generate research; is a site for artistic
interventions, experiments, projects; is an archive for media objects; is
an archive for original works of digital art/literature along with their
original platforms. It belongs equally in literature departments, art
departments, media studies departments, history of technology programs,
computer science departments, libraries and archives.
The MAL is a "living archive" in the sense that, other than our stockpile
of spare parts, everything in the lab functions and is meant to be turned
on and used for tinkering, play, teaching, and research. It is also living
in the sense that it is an ongoing, DIY project primarily run by and for
the self-taught that continues to grow and change with every new influx of
participants. In fact, one of the strengths of the lab is that there are
almost no precedents for it and no clearly established set of best
practices.
The MAL's strongest collection is its historically important personal
computers from the late 1970s through the 80s and 90s - computers such as
the Apple II, Apple Lisa, and Apple Macintosh, as well as many early works
of digital art/literature from the early 80s through the late 90s.
If you'd like to know more about the MAL or if you'd like to donate, please
visit our site:
http://mediaarchaeologylab.com
yours, Lori
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Assistant Professor | Director, Media Archaeology Lab
Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder
Hellems 101, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0226
loriemerson.net | mediaarchaeologylab.com
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 21:31:23 -0400
From: Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com>
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Subject: OLD SGI hardware...
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Sorry to keep pestering the list. I have an idea...
Is there any really old original SGI hardware out there? I'm talking
the pre-MIPS stuff, that was used as a graphical front-end to VAXen
and other items (IRIS 1000) or even IRIS 2000 equipment.
I had an Iris 2020 some years ago. It had a bad geometry engine and was
thrown
out at work. I got a guy in Germany to send me all the cards he'd saved
out of
one, and got it running. It lasted about a year and the geometry engine
quit again. I sold the boards to a guy who supported some old gear at
an air force base in Alaska. They are apparently still using this stuff.
Jon
