On 12/8/2012 10:15 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
On 2012 Dec 8, at 9:19 PM, mc68010 wrote:
Interesting stuff but, looks like they dug it up
after Hurricane
Sandy. Is picking water damaged paper tape more relaxing or less ?
http://www.ebay.com/sch/frozen-planet/m.html?item=230894597943
The guy's descriptions leave a little to be desired ("c1950's UNIVAC
protoype board" .. except it has ICs on it, with 1970's date codes),
but the photos on his web site are interesting:
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze6z4sv/index.html
Time warp to 1965, with a slight increase in entropy.
I totally missed that. Amazing pictures. Wish there were more. It is
hard to imagine a company just abandoning gear like that today.
Creditors would have made sure every last bit of wire was accounted
for. Actually I wonder if he wasn't just stealing. Was it actually
abandoned ?