14 Dec
2006
14 Dec
'06
7:10 a.m.
In article <f4eb766f0612140215v1badc03v46eea711d0b4e26d at mail.gmail.com>,
"Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> writes:
If you don't have a full-on IBM mainframe-class
CPU, I can't see how
you'd be able to do anything with this sort of box.
Am I the only one that acquires hardware for which I don't (yet) have
any useful way to hook it up? I mean, I've got graphics accelerators
for Sun/DEC/IBM workstations where I don't have the card that goes into
the host, or even a host to hook it into. I've got an HP graphics
generator and no oscilloscope to hook it up to. I've got dial boxes
and tablets and no machine to hook them to. Eventually I hope to fill
in the missing pieces, but given that the pieces I have already are
hard to obtain, that may be impossible.
I have an offer of an E&S Picture System II monitor. Not the whole
terminal, just the monitor. Sure, I'll take that.
What's so wrong about rescuing a piece of classic equipment for which
you don't currently have anything else that goes with it? Nothing in
my book.
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