12 Jun
2001
12 Jun
'01
5:23 a.m.
On June 12, Jeff Hellige wrote:
You make an excellent point here...but Cyber205s aren't exactly
common enough to find parts lying around from time to time. :-/
-Dave McGuire
But yes, it
is rectangular. And big. I would give my right arm to
be able to restore/preserve/own a functional Cyber205 (or any Cyber
for that matter, anybody have a smaller one available?)...the one at
Purdue seems to have been gutted, sigh.
At least a gutted one presents at least some sort of starting point on
which to build and it it's the racks and panels you get, that's a bit better
than starting off with nothing more than a single board or two. If it were
a machine I wanted badly enough, it'd still be worth looking into even in
that type of shape. There are certainly automotive and aircraft collectors
that have started out with less and ended up with fully functional vehicles
after spending enough time gathering the pieces.