20 May
2005
20 May
'05
1:27 a.m.
I used to go there all the time. I bought two Mannesmann/Tally
printers, some weird little minicomputer (no brand, no docs, core,
18 bit, weird cards, don't ask I don't recall anything), Pertec
7-track tape drive I ran on the SWTPC, tons of weird boards; ogled
$2000 64K (K!) boards, glared at the snotty MIT kids with HP
calculators on their belts (I hope they are embarrassed now),
looked at japanese 360 clones ($500?), a 6-foot-high analog pen
plotter, a PDP-8/s and E (some really low serial number in the
window). Bought my Olivetti Te318 (asr33 workalike but beautiful
italian), I can't recall what else. Spent a lot of time and money
there. Wish I had saved that mini!