8 May
2004
8 May
'04
7:41 p.m.
>>>>How come RCS/RI doesn't want this?
It's a nice piece of old iron
perhaps they lack vision!
ed!
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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: 7 track tape terminal
On Sat, 8 May 2004, William Donzelli wrote:
cash
I have an extra Mohawk Data Services 7 track (!)
tape terminal
available. Basically, it is a tape drive with a keyboard - oh the weird
stuff they used to do back then!
The "first" key-to-tape. A pretty useful device, really, for that era.
Tap data directly to tape and then load it onto the mainframe.
But are you sure it's 7-track? I haven't been able to tell for sure on
mine because the head is tucked away such that you can't really see the
surface.
I have no docs on the thing.
I have a copy of the sales brochure that I found while going through
several thousands documents at the Computer History Museum.
I should also say that the keyboard on this thing
moved the bar as far
as how bad human engineering can get.
Yep.
> Anyway, I want to make it go away, so if anyone has stuff to trade (no
> micros, please - (cruddy) big stuff or docs are good) or has a little > (were not talking much here folks - scrap value
is probably only $100),
we
can deal. I
can deliver to VCFeast or anywhere near NY/NJ/CT/RI. I could
ship it as well, as I do have a sort of crate thing.
How come RCS/RI doesn't want this? It's a nice piece of old iron.
Hopefully someone gets it (someone other than the scrapman). Yours and
mine are the only ones I know of, though I'm sure there are at least a few
more still in existence.
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
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