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
> > 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
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
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>
Meyers Computer Services is an A-1 operation, so
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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
> 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>
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...")
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>> 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.
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
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> 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