VAX 11/750!!!!

At 02:06 PM 6/11/99 -0700, John Lawson wrote: For me, this would have been a strange statement unless I hadn't actually experienced it first hand. In my case I had a Q-bus controller for dual 8" floppies from "Data Systems Design" (it was for a DSD 440) that came in a back plane of a system that I lost its drives long ago apparently. But I hung on to it, an lo and behold, I picked up a pallet of "misc drives" and what do I find on the pallet but, you guessed it, the matching floppies for the controller! Strange. Its known as the 'attraction' effect and while not justifiable in any logical sense, it works like this: o If you have a piece of a system it "attracts" the other pieces of the system until you have a whole system. Weird its true but it seems to work. Of course the system has to be available to be attracted. I've got a piece of an IBM 1420 that is pointed out to the street in the hopes that it will resonate with someone in the valley but its been a while :-) --Chuck