17 May
2013
17 May
'13
7:24 p.m.
Hey,
Am 17.05.2013 23:12, schrieb Dave McGuire:
TU56s go for thousands on eBay when they show up,
I do not believe that. But if there are people willing to pay thousands of
dollars for a TU56 - I am prepared to deliver.
RK05s are about twice as common.
They usually
pop up in heaps.
Some people we know have them,
but they're not turning loose of them.
Oh, I can provide TU56s and RK05 drives
from a heap! And I am *willing* to do
so. It's not my heap and I forward the money. Therefore it won't be too cheap.
Shipping is a problem to be solved.
Yes, I have both, as do you...but don't make the
mistake of letting that make
you think they're common.
Really a question of perspective.
There is one important point:
Here (Germany) rules a spirit of keeping and hoarding stuff. And the public
sector's problems with cleaning out basements (which - I have to admit - has
sadly improved over the last years).
On the other hand old computers are not widely appreciated in my society. In
fact most "normal" people I know insist to call my treasures scrap and me an
idiot keeping that scrap. It's sometimes hard.
I have seen things you'd never believe. In several dimensions. Really vast
amounts of stuff (thousands of sqare metres packed!!!). And also acts of
unspeakable destruction. I saw drum memories, RP drives, big tape drives from
the sixties, and many other cool stuff being dismantled and binned by metal
type. Without being able to save very much.
We don't have a big CHM in Germany. We have only showroom style dead collections
like the Nixdorf Forum or the new computer museum in Kiel.
The collection of Klemens Krause and Christian Corti is a real exception.
And the few people who really care about big iron is laughed at.
So my perspective is quite different from yours. It's not a question of
different opinions, it's really a question of perspective.
The old computers can't be found in every basement - even in my country. But if
you keep your eyes open, it comes to you. And when you just think that the time
when you found nice hardware for free has ended - something new drops in from
somewhere.
I'm not sarcastic or anything alike. When I say heap - I mean heap:
http://pdp8.hachti.de/gallery/misc/img_1103_full.jpg
The perspective comes from walking over the racks. You could not descent to the
ground because the room is too packed.
Facit: Do not tell me about RK05 and TU56 being really rare :-)
Kind regards,
Philipp
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