13 Oct
2012
13 Oct
'12
4:19 p.m.
On 10/12/2012 4:47 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Please don't murder me. I was young and foolish... I have the remains of
one of those somewhere :-(
We all have our stories. For my part, I:
1) Disassembled and gutted an antique tube radio.
2) Didn't recognize an original LINC computer, with LINC tape, keyboard
and all, when I saw one and could have bought it for next to nothing.
Really stupid - I even recognized the LINC tape as being just that - but
figured it had been stuck on some weird set of home-brew flip chip
stuff. (I have no idea what happened to it / where it ended up).
3) Disassembled an RS08/RF08 disk/head assembly (on the other hand, it
had been tossed into a dumpster, and probably didn't survive it anyway.
I did manage to rescue the RS08 and RF08 electronics, backplanes,
cards, power supply and all, and I still have the (now presumably
useless) platter and a couple of the head assemblies.