I went to see this guy today who had a bunch of stuff he wanted to get rid of,
and I was looking for scrap. It occurs to me that some of this may perhaps
be of some interest...
- An assembly that's marked "Mod. A33", it appears to contain a floppy
drive
(the button is marked 1.44) and there's a square pushbutton and a smaller
recessed button (reset?), a liquid crystal display, and a keyswitch. I
have two of these.
- A tape drive (?) marked "Exabyte Corporation" and "Model HH CTS", I
probabl
have more than one of these. Pushing open the tape door shows a head in
there that bears a slight resemblance to a video head, but smaller. It's
got some kind of rails on it and a (single) connector on the back that I
dno't recognize, probably for some IBM system. The drive appears to have
standard 4-pin power and pin header (50-pin?) going to this.
- Printers. I have an Oki 184 that was never removed from the wrapping in the
box. Also available to me are going to be some other models, 3?? Oki as
well. If you need to print multipart forms these are real workhorses.
- Terminals. Since there's been a bunch of talk in here about terminals
lately. these I didn't snag today (the car was filled up! :-) but there will
be some quantity of Wyse 325 Color and 60 Monochrome terminals, all working
I'm told. If there is interest let me know, otherwise these are all going
to be scrapped for parts.
- "Cooling unit", this is marked "model 052C" and all I can see are a
couple
of fans and a connector on the other end, appears to be for some kind of IBM
racks, I have two of these.
- Power supplies, "Lucent Technology C5892B", I have two of these as well.
- "Webramp 700", apparently complete with all sorts of stuff in the box.
- A docking station and external floppy drive, marked "Toshiba 430", which
also has a pile of original software on floppies in the box which appears to
include w95.
- A box that was "sealed by IBM" until I opened it and apparently containing a
"7137 Disk Array Subsystem", complete and certified and such, with some
paperwork in a loose-leaf binder, I didn't unpack it any further than that.
- Power aupplies and drive assemblies for "IBM 7133 HD Rack Assy" and also the
racks, if there's any interest. I believe there is some large number of
these, but I haven't had the chance to count things up yet.
There's a lot more, and this is going to take multiple more trips for me to
end up with all of this stuff before I'll know what I have. If any of it is
of interest, please let me know offlist and we'll figure something out. If
I don't hear from anybody, I'm just going to get what I can that's usable
parts out if it and the rest is history.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin