Gaps in the collection (was Re: rarest computers. )

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:48:42PM +0100, Tony Duell wrote: Me, too. I missed a KL10 taken home by an ex-CompuServant by six months. (it was in his garage, then he pitched it). I was hoping to pick up a discarded SC-25 or SC-30 when those were obsoleted, but I heard through the grapevine that those were collected by Systems Concepts. So... I have to content myself with running klh10 in the meantime (901 hours of uptime since I last rebooted to get the NI20 going). Boy, that'd be nice, too... or maybe a LINC-8 I wouldn't mind one of those, either. I remember using them before the Mac came out (at the local University). I couldn't compare them to a PERQ, but I could compare them to my experiences with the original Macintosh in 1984. In the 12-bit world, I'm still missing a PDP-8/m, a PDP-8/f, and a WT-78. I have an -8/e, so the -8/f is really optional, but since the -8/m is a little different (smaller box, LED front panel...) that'd be a nice one to have, too. I really have enough classic CPUs to keep me busy for the rest of my life. What I'm always on the lookout for is *peripherals* for those CPUs, especially disks for pre-1985 DEC machines. -ethan -- Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 04-Aug-2004 01:20 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -70.5 F (-57.0 C) Windchill -115.3 F (-81.8 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 18 kts Grid 034 Barometer 666 mb (11160 ft) Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html