14 May
2015
14 May
'15
3:57 p.m.
That's a neat system. Too far away for me to consider buying, but I'm
still enjoying the pictures.
The rust looks scary.. I hope that the PCBs aren't badly corroded. That
would
be my biggest worry as a potential buyer of the system. I see some
signs of rodent nibbles on ribbon cables inside the tape drive, but those
are easily replaced.
I wonder what that lower card cage is for? It's not for the internal TU58
tape
drive, which is self-contained and uses a plain async serial port.
I think this will be a cool project for the auction winner.
--
Good question - not sure what the card cage is used for, I was not
expecting to see one in there when I opened it today. Fortunately the
computer itself is not corroded like the card cage in the bottom of the
cabinet. Worst case you can remove the 11/44 from the cabinet entirely.
Bill