MIT flea

-----Original Message----- From: Max Eskin [SMTP:maxeskin@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 17, 1998 6:26 PM To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers Subject: MIT flea I only managed to go there for 50min. and only found out about a west end when I left. It was cheaper than last time though. I bought nothing. THe things I saw that were of interest, however: A Xerox machine that looked like a PC clone, but the monitor plugged into the system unit with a wide ribbon-like cable, very crude- looking. What was this? Sounds like an 820 or a 16/8; both of them have large flat ribbon cables that connect to the drive housing. The system unit is actually the monitor assembly, that's where the motherboard and memory is. The drives (rigid, floppy, or both) are housed in a separate unit with it's own power supply. If you think that vonnection looks crude, you ought to see how the centronic printer connector is hooked up....with the same flat ribbon cable and the user had to go inside the monitor housing to install it. Very crude indeed...not at all Plug and Play!!! Just as a matter of curiousity, how much were they asking for it? Kirk Scott scottk5(a)ibm.net