Round-up of classic HP stuff

Sam, What's a MW of memory? At 10:04 AM 1/18/98 -0800, you wrote: > >Frank McConnell and I (and another associate) made a nice haul of great HP >mini's yesterday. The tally: > >(1) HP1000A >(1) HP1000 model 600A (hard drive, 3.5" floppy) >(1) Tape Reader Reroller (the 8th of only a few ever made) >(2) 2647F terminals (these are actually computers running Basic with > built-in tape and external 5.25" disk drives but are used as > terminals to the 21MX) >(2) Mag-tape drives (Frank will provide the specs and model #s) >(1) Big-assed line printer and stand >(2) HP racks > >(Frank, what did I mess up on?) > >Plus some software, a bunch of little spare parts, cables, connectors, and >a FULL set of manuals, including service manuals and engineering manuals >with schematics and all that for everything. > >The guy was more interested in getting rid of it and having it go to a >good home than getting money for it. We paid him $200. Of course Frank >now has an invaluable contact for discussing his HP passion (the guy we >bought the stuff from is a 26 year HP veteran). > >I think when it was all done Frank basically had an accident in his pants >as he could not contain his excitement over his good fortune. > >On an unrelated haul, I picked up a bunch of nice IBM manuals. I got the >service manuals for the IBM PC and IBM PCjr. I also got the Options and >Adaptors manual which describes, of all things, the various options and >adaptors available for the PC, including the expansion chassis which I >found last year in a thrift shop. Also got an original DOS 1.10 manual >and software, a manual for Windows 1.03 (whee!) and a ton of other neat >miscellany. > >Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ---- Jackass