For those who might be interested, a freshly-minted YouTube video this
time on another bastion of British retro-computing, my iconic
ZX-Spectrum.
http://youtu.be/cCqXqYRlQt0
Cheers
Terry (Tez)
If you are interested in the perspective of hackers, look for this book "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" for a good contrast.
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Murray McCullough
To: cctalk
Sent: 2013-02-07 07:58:28 +0000
Subject: Vintage era
I was reading ?The Fire in the Valley? ? the story of how the computer
became a mass-consumer product - and the wrestling of control by
experimenters & hobbyists of computing technology from elites - the
computer cognoscenti. This beginning age(1970s-80s) saw the rise of
the technocrat, the nerd, the geek who revolutionized technology but
who today are the computing elite and control our technocratic society
for good or ill. Vintage computers, the beginning era, has been
subsumed by a technology so rapidly advancing it threatens to
overwhelm us yet I still look back with fondness and I hope we can
revive some of that era?s experimentation if only to validate a true
hacker ethic.
Murray--
I remember that the old DEC TK-50 DLT drives would leave me red-faced at
the end of the day. However, I'm wondering what the *latest* drive
(i.e. most advanced) is that can still *read* the old TK50 tapes? Can
one go as far as a TK85? Later?
I suspect that a DLT IV drive wouldn't stand a chance.
Anyone have experience with this?
--Chuck
I'm looking for an Apple enterprise product called "AppleSearch". The
version I'm looking for is preferably "1.5", but others might be O.K.
Please contact me off list if you have questions or have a copy of this
product.
Sorry for this crass "commercial" request - but, hey, there is a nice
bounty available ;)
Thanks!
Lyle
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Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
A Burroughs Redactor II is available in the Maryland area. Please see
message below and reply to original sender.
Reply-to: NaTasha Morgan-Lipscomb <tashatravels at msn.com>
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Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap...The truth is always simple.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:26:55 -0500
From: NaTasha Morgan-Lipscomb <tashatravels at msn.com>
To: vcf at vintage.org
Subject: Burroughs Redactor II
Good Afternoon,
Re: Burroughs Redactor II
I have the above referenced computer that we found in our home when we
purchased it. We would like to have it appraised or sold but don't know
where to start. Would you know of any resource that could possibly assist
us in an appraisal or sale?
Thank You in advance
NaTasha & Christian Lipscomb 443.766.9281 cell, 410.701.7010 work
I am selling a DEC RX-02 Floppy drive. I don't have anything to test
it with currently so selling AS-IS. Seems to turn on no problem
though. Selling for $400 + shipping or best offer. Seems to be half of
what the going rate is on Ebay.
Images here: http://imgur.com/a/LjTLw
Please email me at filipmaj at gmail.com if interested.
I reposted for you on the vintage computer forums too (if you get some replies from names you don't recognise here).
Best of luck!
- John from vcf past
BTW, that Hazeltine 1500 is mine.
:(
Still working on this. I've gone silent only because I am inundated with
legal issues presently, working my way through each.
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Sellam Ismail VintageTech
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Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap...The truth is always simple.
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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:24 AM PST Allison wrote:
>On 02/05/2013 07:03 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
>>
>> interesting if you live on the west coast
>>
>> somewhat less so when you live in New Jersey.
>> especially when you have no knowledge of its innards. the seller speaks of the possibility of it having a rare IBM processor. some people consider the 486 rare
>>
>I find that last statement funny.
There will always be people who "grew up" in different times and environments who find different things interesting. I see no reason to disparage them. Sometimes you just like something. I am most definitely not a DEC *minded* person. But I used to like and kind of miss my old DEC 486 pizza.box.
And my statement was meant to be funny in case it seemed vague.
>I have a small format (for 1990) 386sx/25 board I keep for emergencies.
>I have a SIIG box with a 386/16 for a router.
>I have two Dell 486sx (486dx/66 without external cache) pizza boxes
>and a coffee can of 286/386/486 chips I think I haven't tossed yet.
>
>The 486 PCs and the 386 board are saved as I need them to use for
>ISA-8 and ISA-16 board hosts. Other wise I consider them junk
>and they will be tossed as junk if and when they die.
Heavens please get rid of some of that trash Allison! Just save me any multibus boards you happen to have.
It's always nice hearing from Allison. And though she for the most part holds Intel in contempt, I did actually hear her say some of my pseudos were on the cool side.
>Allison
