Tell us of these glorious finds, so we can enjoy them
vicariouly! No time to visit, and no room for anything
anyway! Sure would like an ASR-33, though. Heck, I'd
like to hear an MP3 of one printing (all I've found on
the 'net was model 19's).
--- John Allain <allain(a)panix.com> wrote:
> There are
also 2 unused, still-boxed 33s with
101A Datasets.
Do you know if these have the rotary dial or the
touch-tone keypad? I
The ones that I saw of the '33 type (me no expert)
had touchtone,
but this warehouse had many machines (some MIL, some
teletype-type)
with a pulse dialers on them.
Here's a rave about the rest (long).
A good word for the Donzie's woarehouse experience.
First off to see
is the magnitude of everything. The Armory encloses
an area equal to
the MIT swapmeet, with about 2~3 times the mass of
items (in boxfulls
instead of just covering tabletops) and of course no
PeeSee. I spent a
whole day there which was just about enough,
considering the MIT
swapmeet takes me about 3 hours.
There certainly are enough teletypes... I estimate
about 50 of them
-various models- in complete assembly but in
good/used condition,
unboxed with a small amount of dust in them. There
are also some
same-era Siemens machines of teletype function. For
teletypes there
is about maybe 60' x 6' x 3' of boxed replacement
parts, we also found
informtion booklets and packets for TT scattered
around (this is day 2
of WD's many-week holding of the warehouse) things
will only get more
orderly.
Of interest to me
The real neat stuff for me were beaucoup 19" racks
with MIL stuff in them.
We're talking here about meters, switches,
actuators, scopes,
waveguides, gear drive actuators, really the more
interesting things you
can find in racks, short of an actual PDP-1.
Also many testsets (meter boxes) and on and on. I
can keep writing about
this but you may get the idea by now... Indiana
Jones' lost Arc is in there
someplace.
John A.
an unpaid endorsement
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