22 Dec
2020
22 Dec
'20
8:28 a.m.
I can see that it was a long day - but you are doing
good work! Keep it
up!
Whereabouts is all this heavy lifting taking place, in the US? I wouldn't
have expected to see ICL Perqs so far from home ...
They're here in the US: I think one of these came from Sparrows Point
Beth Steel, I remember seeing one like it in my long since ex
girlfriends' house in the 1980's. That brings back bad memories, but I
think the juju has faded by now.
The brown one is the original Perq 1, as you now know.
Since you have
take out the hard disk (14 inch Shugart, as I recall) be aware that it
should be stored upright. The platters had a tendency to warp under their
own weight when stored sideways.
Got it. I didn't take the disk out, one is in a frame of a Perq 1 and
the other was in a complete-ish P1 that I took the CPU card cage and
power supply out to make it light enough to get up the steps. There are
some pretty big rubber isolators holding the disk assembly to the frame
and yes at the moment it's all stored vertical with the disks pointing up.
If it would be useful, when the time comes, I have a
couple of ring
binders here containing some ICL documentation from 1984-86. E.g. my
Perq Specialist Training Notes and a set of Customer Service Information
Sheets - for example see listing here:
http://paste.c-net.org/RocketsSymbols
These have some part numbers and tips which might perhaps be useful.
I don't have a Perq, but I would love to get copies of any software that
could be retrieved from these systems (Still looking forward to playing
Pool (i.e. the game, with the balls) by Nigel Bond (?).
Ok. They're safe now and I'll see what else I can retrieve before the
end of year. My best chance might be to get the two Canon printers out
of there; they are blocking access to other stuff and that would give me
room to move more of the Sun junk out of the way to unearth these.
Maybe I'll also get the Kaypros out of there as well to unearth that
Compucom thing.
C