16 Nov
2007
16 Nov
'07
5:17 a.m.
HI All
A friend mentioned to me he saw what looked to be some DEC equipment
at a local scrap yard. Looking through the scrap I saw a really sad looking
rack with some RA81 and 82's. They looked too damaged and too hard to
dig out,
but as I was leaving, out of the corner of my eye, I spied another
"buried" cabinet
with 8" floppy drives. Curiosity got the best of me and a closer look
the cabinet
said KEVEX 1600. The floppies looked to be in good condition so I
removed the
cover plate and lo and behold, a Qbus 11/03 greeted me! I yanked the
third-party
qbus chassis out and also the *" drive cabinet, which turned out to be
a DSD 210!
The scrap yard charged me by the pound, around $20!
Cheers
Tom Ponsford