8 Sep
2015
8 Sep
'15
10:01 p.m.
On 09/08/2015 07:35 PM, Billy Pettit wrote:
Which would make it even more scarce. There were only a little over
a 100 of the 160 models made. And 40+ of them were rebranded as NCR
machines.
There were 495 160-As made officially. (There were also a small
number shipped without serial numbers to the good people at
Langley.)
I know of at least 5x 160-As still in existence, besides my own.
Which should be going to a museum this week if they can sort out
shipping glitches. My system includes a 161-A Typewriter in lousy
shape and a 167-2 Card Reader in perfect shape. Plus all manuals,
software (with listings) and spare parts. Even the paper tape
rewinder!
I did not know any 160 machines survived, so who ever bought it has a
unique item.
Well, I'm not much of a collector, so I don't know about values of old
gear too much. I do recall seeing a 160A and a 1604 on the machine
floor at SVLOPS sometime during the mid 70s, however. Since that's what
the CEs at the time were doing a lot of, I suspect they were there for
demolition. I wonder if they were from FNWC or the Naval PG school in
Monterey.
Really shows CDC's "scorched earth" policy during the 1970s, after it
was discovered that some "customers" were purchasing parts on the scrap
market.
Wonder what it was worth? Probably about the same $0.60 per pound
(IIRC) that the scrapped STAR-65 brought after it came back from Canada...
Now *that* or even a 1B would be rare indeed.
--CHuck