23 Jun
2000
23 Jun
'00
6:28 p.m.
At 02:34 PM 6/23/00 -0400, Merle wrote:
I just go back from checking out a municipal yard sale in North
Kingstown. Generally speaking, not much. I did see a TRS-80 model 1,
and an early Mac and an Apple II lurking in the piles. Also some early
clone XT's and AT's. One possibility is an ADDS Consul 980 terminal. I may
go back for that. Looks like early 70's vintage. Also some Datamaxx jobs,
but no servers. Odd omission.
Mostly junk, but some IBM Selectric II's, and a beautiful Adler. Some
Panasonic Electronic typewriters, too, but most stuff was in rough condition.
I did somewhat better. I picked up several CDC core memory boards (to
help finance my collection!) and an old Tektronix Multi User Developement
system (Tektronix 8540 and 8560) with a 68000 CPU pod. I just posted some
pictures at
"http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/tek-developement/tek-pod.jpg",
"http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/tek-developement/tek-8560.jpg",
"http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/tek-developement/tek-8540.jpg",
"http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/tek-developement/8560-bk.jpg" and
"http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/tek-developement/8540-bk.jpg". Sorry
the pictures aren't any better but I just got home and unloaded the stuff
and I haven't had time to clean it or look at it closely yet. The 8560
uses an 8 inch floppy drive. I have soem disk here that are marked
"Tek-DOS", I'm hoping that they're for this system. Does anyone know
anything about these?
Joe