IBM 1620

On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Kevin Tikker wrote: It is now a mess, half finished (unwired handicap door buttons, etc.), and poorly designed. The signs for ALS, and amplified and TTY phones were put up, but there is not a single public telephone in the building. One of the entrances to the library was mis-prepped as an exit and can not be locked, and "it is impossible to get the plans changed to allow fixing it". Not within Peralta. Corporate culture of destruction and erasing of the past. We retrieved some stuff from the dark, dank tunnels at Merritt (and they tried to fire one guy for dumpster diving) Laney is too obsessed with throwing things away and changing, just for the sake of changing. Guarded dumpsters, cleared often. Couldn't save some "broken" (needed toner cartridge) almost current LaserJets. Did save (for the CIS department) a projector that needed its signal cord repaired - almost got fired for soldering a DE15, in a well-ventilated non-flammable workroom; if I hadn't been there that day, it would have been scrapped. College Of Alameda was built without adequate dark storage. Last of the 5170s is long gone. Nothing bigger nor more interesting than generic PCs (primarily HPaq) were ever moved into the BCC spaces. No word on the DisplayWriters that used to be in the Milvia building. The other space was temporary lease, now gone; long before it was a Ross and later Walgreen's, it was a JCPenney's. District Office has occasionally had a few interesting things, but not any more. Used to be a 4381? there. There ARE some interesting things in dark, dank storage spaces in UC. CCSF used to have some interesting stuff, such as Honeywell "mainframe". But, has recently had VERY thorough clearing out due to the Barbara Beno (accreditation Commission) pressure. Heard that some folk at DeAnza/Foothill squirreled away some goodies. Don't know the current state of stuff at Contra Costa Colleges nor SF State. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com