16 Mar
2008
16 Mar
'08
2:30 p.m.
They were a large electronics contractor in the defense arena in the
60/70/80s Bought by Marconi in 1998.
Based on the description, it would seem that the Kaypro was incorporated
into some type of "test set" which was designed/built for a govt
contract. Was not uncommon to add s/n label plates to such equipment
with s/ns starting at 001 because that allowed the custom built hardware
to be tracked as part of a contract. So this unit could be nothing
more than the Kaypro with a custom data connector, OR the entire inside
could be custom hardware/software.
s shumaker
back to lurking now
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Sunday 16 March 2008 12:54, Steve Shumaker wrote:
Interesting how they carefully avoid saying the
S/N is a TRACOR test set
s/n and NOT the Kaypro number. This unit has been on epay before
with almost the same verbiage. ahh well... caviat emptor
s shumaker.
back to lurking now
Scanning wrote:
> Vintage Kaypro on Ebay;
>
> Item 300039229895 for only $ 25,000.00 !!
>
> / sac
I'm not familiar with TRACOR nor do I understand the significance of the s/n.
I do however have oh, six or so of those machines. :-)
I thought only the real earliest ones were 2.5 MHz speed, though? And those
didn't come with fans, which that page mentions it having. I know that only
some of mine have a fan, some don't.