31 May
2004
31 May
'04
12:36 p.m.
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From: "ed sharpe" <esharpe(a)uswest.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: general electric terminal?
Festival
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I'll stop by tomorrow morning and see if it is still around. The thing
looked large and heavy and, given my present lack of space, large and heavy
things don't fit any more. I do have a shed though .... If it is reasonably
priced, I'll see if it fits in my station wagon. Might talk them into a
donation!
(Once inside the store this morning, I did pick up a "Reach no. AA Official
Indoor" baseball bat from probably the turn of the last century for 2 bucks.
Just in case anyone collects baseball memorabilia. )
bm
the finger band units came as a terminet 300 and a
1200 denoting the
baud
rate. nice as they had fully formed characters both
upper and lower case.
if memory serves me correctly the 300 model A came out in late 60's early
70's
you will find them in many colors....
our hp 2000 f ( that became an access system ) had one with an hp paint
job and terminal number on it.
Honeywell also used them as console and terminal devices both for large
information systems and process control products.
the only units we have now are a couple Honeywell units terminet 1200 in
the
white and black paint job.
alas the hp unit passed with the ages... probably to the same place the
2883
disk drive did for the 2000 system. If anyone has
either of these units it
would be nice to at least have an example of them to display next to the
hp
2000 here in the museum. to see what the 2000 system
looks like and what
the drive looked like ( alas the terminet is not in the pic check towards
the bottom of www.smecc.org)
I owe a great debt to this product line, as in my first year of
business
they made the money that really helped launch the
company.
Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
Please check our web site at
http://www.smecc.org
to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us.
address:
coury house / smecc
5802 w palmaire ave
glendale az 85301
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: general electric terminal?
completely
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Brian Mahoney wrote:
> In the local Goodwill this morning, there was a large General Electric
> printer/terminal(?) stand out front in the weekend dropoff area. It
stood
> about three feet high, had a keyboard, with
a printer behind it and a
data
> cassette holder in the upper right console
area which also had rocker
> switches on it. Sorry for the bad description but I was in a rush.
> The thing looked in perfect condition, similar to a teletype machine I
had
> seen once, although the keys didn't look
like teletype keys. The
cassette
> > part intrigued me but I didn't have time to examine it and I
> forget
what the name of the unit was. It was GE for sure.
> Basically if anyone has interest in rescuing it, I will head back
tomorrow
to fetch
it. Otherwise does anyone know what it was, from my terrible
description?
It definitely sounds like something worth rescuing. Someone somewhere
should want it. I'd want it if it were closer.
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