20 Dec
2005
20 Dec
'05
2:56 a.m.
Does others here also value some of their equipment
for the asset
tags on it? I have gear from places like the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory for instance.
It is interesting. Sometimes, with luck, with military
electronics you can get unit or tail numbers off bits and pieces, or
perhaps a previous life on a ship. I have traced some bits and pieces to
Goddard Space Flight (most of their early digital phone system), the
XB-52, battleships Texas, Idaho, and California, aircraft carrier
Forrestal, and a DE called the Loeser.
I also once had a VAX-11/730 with CDC tags - Horrors!
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org