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by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On June 29, Douglas Quebbeman wrote: > > > A couple of big APC Silicon UPSes, room air conditioner > > > (http://www.coolestspot.com/ is REALLY neat) Darkened glass > > > room dividers. A big control room like in wargames. And > > > I think overhead wiring raceways are cooler than a raised floor :) > > > > You never worked with overhead raceways, did you? > > Oh, they're great if you like your cables getting sliced > up as you pull them through; pulling the raceway tops off > (the alternative) is no fun either. I work with them every day and don't have such problems. I rather like 'em. The ones I use are made by Newton...might wanna check 'em out. -Dave McGuire

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Your dream computer room.

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> > A couple of big APC Silicon UPSes, room air conditioner > > (http://www.coolestspot.com/ is REALLY neat) Darkened glass > > room dividers. A big control room like in wargames. And > > I think overhead wiring raceways are cooler than a raised floor :) > > You never worked with overhead raceways, did you? Oh, they're great if you like your cables getting sliced up as you pull them through; pulling the raceway tops off (the alternative) is no fun either. -dq

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The cost of collecting debate

by allisonp＠world.std.com

From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> >Anyway, the IBM Incompatibles that I've got include : >Sanyo MBC555 >DEC Rainbow >HP150 >HP110+ >Sirius (Victor 9000) >IBM PCjr (sort-of. It'll boot standard PC-DOS, but quite a lot of standard >software won't run). >FTS-88 (I've never seen MS-DOS for it, only CP/M 86, but it's an 8088 box). You forgot the Vaxmate a 286 box that was mildly PC. >> Honestly, I have no desire for an altair/imsai/apple 1, so as long as those >> are "fashionable" and little else, I won't shed a tear over it. If, > >I, too, have little desire to own any of those. I have the altair, what junk. I do have a buch of other first machines of the SBC fame. Allison

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the other side of the equation - your SO/spouse

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

ROFL!!! -----Original Message----- From: Steve Robertson [mailto:steverob@hotoffice.com] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 12:41 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: RE: the other side of the equation - your SO/spouse > We had an agreement that if anything new came in, > something had to go out. This has limited my collecting for a little > while. I had the same agreement... Some new "stuff" came in so, I tossed the old "stuff" out. Now I live alone :-) Steve Robertson <steverob(a)hotoffice.com>

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A-1 Rating for Meyers Computer Services

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

Meyers Computer Services is an A-1 operation, so I can heartily recommend them if you ever want to do business with them. You may recall my post about a drive I bought on haggle. The drive in question arrived sans three SMD chips from the interface PCB, and would not spin up. The replacement arrived very quickly even though I told them to save money and go slow-boat-to-China with it. The replacement has the chips that were missing from the first one. I haven't tried it yet, but I already told them no big deal if it doesn't work. There are apparently a ton of these flooding the surplus market right now, and I've got another coming from another source (for less than this one cost), so I'm as happy as a pig in shiwhroishafowehfofhaew;fhawef -doug q

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the other side of the equation - your SO/spouse

by steverob＠hotoffice.com

> We had an agreement that if anything new came in, > something had to go out. This has limited my collecting for a little > while. I had the same agreement... Some new "stuff" came in so, I tossed the old "stuff" out. Now I live alone :-) Steve Robertson <steverob(a)hotoffice.com>

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the other side of the equation - your SO/spouse

by mrbill＠mrbill.net

Since we're on the topic of collections, I have this question: How does your significant other/spouse deal with your hobby, if you have one (a SO, not a hobby), and what "concessions" do you make to stay in their good graces? Myself, I have the aforementioned 2-car garage, plus we have an "agreement" that for any "big" item, I have to get rid of an equivalent amount of stuff, whether it be modern or old. My SO just about throttled me when I mentioned "yeah, I picked up a couple more machines over the weekend" when I picked her up at the airport after a weekend trip a couple of years ago. She didnt quite think that the 35+ Sun SS1s, 3/80s, 3/50s, 3/60s, keyboards, and monitors, in piles in the living room, were a "couple" like I did. 8-) Of course, I lived in a 1/1 apartment at the time, so she was placated when I sold off most of the systems and bought her a leather jacket instead. Bill ("No, honey, please ignore the semi trailer and the forklift backing up to the garage...") -- +-------------------\ /-----------------+ | Bill Bradford | www.sunhelp.org | | mrbill(a)mrbill.net | www.decvax.org | | Austin, Texas USA | www.pdp11.org | +-------------------/ \-----------------+

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Archives of OS/360-ish public domain software?

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>> There must've been an (or several) IBM "Big Iron" users groups at >> one point. Didn't they have a library of public-domain software they >> shared? >Yes... IIRC, wasn't it called S.H.A.R.E.? Yes, SHARE still exists, but its online archives only extend back to 1997 and you have to fork over $250.00 and have an IBM mainframe and be approved by their membership committee just to view the archives. See http://www.share.org/ for more information... It's also unfortunate that SHARE's bylaws prohibit anyone other than SHARE >from distributing their collected software. I was looking for public-domain OS/360 stuff, but maybe William's right: It just doesn't exist, and if it does exist, they don't want you to find it! Tim.

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the other side of the equation - your SO/spouse

by mbg＠world.std.com

My SO and I have two condos... we live at one and my computers lived at the other. We had an agreement that if anything new came in, something had to go out. This has limited my collecting for a little while. Well, we now have a storage area (10x20) and much of my collection has moved to storage (we're hoping to sell both condos and get a house -- *with a garage and/or basement* for my collection). Now that I have the storage place, I can get a little more stuff without having to let something go... Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg KB1FCA | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

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Archives of OS/360-ish public domain software?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> There must've been an (or several) IBM "Big Iron" users groups at > one point. Didn't they have a library of public-domain software they > shared? Yes... IIRC, wasn't it called S.H.A.R.E.? -dq

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