Looks like the lot has 4 brand new 029s and two used machines, at least
one of which is an 026. Somebody go get these! Or, do what I did in
2001 when a lot came up, and get a group together to buy them and divvy
them up. These don't come along that often.
Looks like there is some interesting old radar display gear in there
too, which some military buffs would probably want. Are those
scope hoods made of Bakelite?
http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=2037010&categoryId=c7149
There's a whole bunch of other stuff in the lot, but you can call the
DRMO staff and see if they can either keep and relist the remainder, or
give it to a surplus dealer. There are usually surplus dealers hanging
around happy to haul off whatever doesn't sell or what gets abandoned.
It's the logistics of shipping and dispersing the stuff that's painful.
Looks like the four new 029s are crated, the 026(s) are sitting on
pallets, and they'll have to be padded and strapped.
In the 2001, I used freightquote.com and scheduled a pickup & had the
units sent to the people in the group. FYI I just looked at the bills
of lading, we listed the factory-crated 029's as 520 lbs each, and the
029s on pallets as 310 lbs each. At today's rates, you should be able
to ship a palletized unit from Ohio to, say, California, with a
liftgate delivery, for about $250, and a crated unit for about $350.
I'd be interested to know on or off list what happens with these,
punched card stuff is one of my areas of interest.
Brian
With all this talk on PDP 8's thought I'd throw my
hat in the ring :)
If anyone has a working PDP 8 system for sale, either
in the UK/Europe or USA (West Coast) let me know.
Preferably this would have a disk unit of some kind,
and must be known working with terminal access.
Good price paid and will collect.
Thanks
Ian.
Hi,
A couple of years ago I bought an Interdata Model 74 CPU and I'm
pondering what to do with it. I'm leaning towards rebuilding it to
working condition next year and I was wondering if there are any other
Interdata owners out there?
The machine is in generally good condition, although I have has no power
supply with it so will need to find or build something suitable.
Unfortunately I have no documentation and so if anyone has any
engineering documentation for these machines it would be a great help.
Bitsavers has some details on the Model 70. Does anyone know how similar
the Model 74 is to the 70?
Thanks,
Toby
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User contributed program disks in 5" and 8" formats.
Below that are two addresses. One for a Guenter Musstopf in Ahrensburg in
West Germany and for Henry Lucas in Westmont, IL in the USA. Does anyone
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old IBM terminals. Instead of me being very specific, just tell me what you
have. I don't come by that many, neither do you probably.
2 (at least) full height IBM floppy drives.
Atari ST equipment. Non working considered.
interested in a nice IBM 5151 monochrome monitor. Have one, but it has
considerable screen burn.
Thanks.
Joe,
I was just looking up the TIL306 part and found your question. I know it is
old but thought I would respond. I actually have 9 in original condition.
They have never been installed in anything. If you need them let me know.
Sincerely,
Mike Fontes
mfontes at charter.net
> From: "Brian Knittel" <brian at quarterbyte.com>
>
> Looks like the lot has 4 brand new 029s and two used machines, at
> least
> one of which is an 026. Somebody go get these! Or, do what I did in
> 2001 when a lot came up, and get a group together to buy them and
> divvy
> them up. These don't come along that often.
>
> Looks like there is some interesting old radar display gear in there
> too, which some military buffs would probably want. Are those
> scope hoods made of Bakelite?
>
> http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=2037010&categoryId=c7149
>
> There's a whole bunch of other stuff in the lot, but you can call the
> DRMO staff and see if they can either keep and relist the remainder,
> or
> give it to a surplus dealer. There are usually surplus dealers hanging
> around happy to haul off whatever doesn't sell or what gets abandoned.
>
> It's the logistics of shipping and dispersing the stuff that's
> painful.
> Looks like the four new 029s are crated, the 026(s) are sitting on
> pallets, and they'll have to be padded and strapped.
>
> In the 2001, I used freightquote.com and scheduled a pickup & had the
> units sent to the people in the group. FYI I just looked at the bills
> of lading, we listed the factory-crated 029's as 520 lbs each, and the
> 029s on pallets as 310 lbs each. At today's rates, you should be able
> to ship a palletized unit from Ohio to, say, California, with a
> liftgate delivery, for about $250, and a crated unit for about $350.
>
> I'd be interested to know on or off list what happens with these,
> punched card stuff is one of my areas of interest.
>
> Brian
If by chance you get a group together who want to do a group purchase
with a scrap dealer, I would be very interested. I'm not likely to
ever find another .029 in as new condition, presumably with the
program drum which I've been outbid at silly money on eBay. Ohio to
California is quite a long way, so maybe 2 or three times as much for
shipping across the Atlantic, would be worthwhile for an AS NEW one,
but not for spares. As long as it can work on 50Hz mains frequency,
voltage no problem. I would also be very interested in an old control
drum if there's one in the .026 and it gets scrapped. The printing
mechanism too maybe if its not too difficult to remove.
My alternatives are to restore my IBM 836 keypunch (like an 026 but
with more bells and whistles) or to resurrect a spare online punch and
interface it to my Mac. This will take many hours of effort, though it
would also get me a fairly slow card reader. The mechanism is an IBM
design made under licence by British Tabulating Machine Co (BTM) and
its successor company, International Computers and Tabulators (ICT),
the main mechanism of which seems identical to the one on the IBM 1401
restoration web site. Old keypunches just don't seem to come up any
more in the UK.
The person who previously claimed the UniPlus UNIX manual set can't be
reached. Next person who emails me on this gets it for postage.
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