14 Apr
2015
14 Apr
'15
1:27 p.m.
There are a couple of obvious things missing,
like the cold-start cassette ...
Couldn't the cassette still be in the drive?
Sure would be nice to see what's behind that side
cover...
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Kossow" <aek at bitsavers.org>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: Burroughs B1900 for sale in North
Carolina
On 4/14/15 2:07 AM, Nigel Williams wrote:
I hope someone is able to rescue this system,
if you're curious a
brief overview is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_B1700
A really unusual and interesting system,
particularly the loadable
microcode for new instruction sets. This is
quite definitely a R at R3
L@@K super-rare unusual system (to overwork an
eBay meme).
If someone gets this, I have lots of spares
which probably aren't going to be
around past this summer.
There are a couple of obvious things missing,
like the cold-start cassette and
any disk drives.