8 Sep
2018
8 Sep
'18
9:48 p.m.
On 09/08/2018 08:10 PM, Ed Sharpe wrote:
Yepper?? the? material that holds all together...
?
I? remember? back in the? first? year in? Computer? Biz? we? came across
one of these and it was? fun? to watch it? run self? test.... fast!??
sold it to someone that had one and interfaced it already...
?
Always? wanted? later? a combo? for museum? display of the? CRT and the?
Printer... There is a great? glossy that? shows up on ebay? time to time
that was a press photo of a gal? with the combo at a desk...
It's a bit surprising to see how few pieces of old peripherals have
survived. Sometime around 1985, we had a VAX 11/750 driving two CDC
(MPI) big 1500 (IIRC) LPM printers. I don't know whatever became of
them, but we couldn't have been an isolated instance.
It seems that more CPUs have survived than the accompanying peripherals.
This, in spite of installations with oceans of disk and tape drives,
for example.
--Chuck