Good Weekend, bad weekend...

Seems like someday you just can't buy a break... Good or bad, and sometimes they come in lots! The past two weekends have been both good and bad around the Computer Garage... The good: some major new additions to the collection The bad: my faithful Chevy Surburban that has provided transport for so much gear over the years has suffered a rather major mechanical failure... (sigh) Preferring to think to the good side tho... I've added a fairly complete Tektronix 4054 graphics computer system to the collection. Along with it came a hard copy unit, external tape drive, a rather large flat bed plotter, and a full set of docs and tapes! Now I've just got go get a large enough flat spot cleared out to light this critter up! (it supposedly all works!) And man, that is one LARGE (19 inch) storage tube!) Then just today I picked up a rather complete set of IBM F.E. manuals and docs for the early Unit Record / EAM machines! The docs are in fine shape for their age (received them from a 31 year IBM vet.) and appear to cover all of the early key punches, sorters, collators, tabulating machines, etc... Most cool! And to go with it, I just picked up an IBM model 82 sorter! (that was on Friday tho...) Also sorting thru the acqusitions from the Paxton auction last week... DEC TU-81+ tape drive, MINC-11, and RA-81 hard drive, a pair of HP 1000F (aka 2117F) CPUs (anyone got docs on these critters?), a Tektronix 4006-1 graphics terminal and model 230 digital unit, an HP 9000/20 (aka 9000/520) workstation, and other minor random goodies... I'd be having an even better time if I were not so bummed over the 'Sub... But, all in all, not a totally horrible weekend or two, eh? And hopefully, I'll get caught up with my photography of the collection as I finally broke down and picked up a digital camera, which has already made it's debut with the shots of the Paxton auction. If of course, I can stop running around picking up new equipment and crawling under vehicles having to fix things... B^} (ok... so maybe if I could just stop having to crawl under vehicles!) -jim --- jimw(a)computergarage.org The Computer Garage - http://www.computergarage.org Computer Garage Fax - (503) 646-0174