21 Oct
2000
21 Oct
'00
8:10 a.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
You've got some catching up to do. My 4-bedroom
condo, 2-car garage,
and several *thousand* square feet of rental space are filled up with
old computers, documentation, etc.
Jerome Fine replies:
I am focused exclusively on old PDP-11 Qbus, system, so I don't
get as much volume here in Toronto - thankfully or I would have had
to choose between a 40 year old computer or a 40 year old marriage.
As it is, even with just the DEC stuff, it hovers between the last two
choices.
I'll be picking up another 90 sq. ft. or so of old
computers tomorrow
morning (Saturday 21-Oct) in Newport Beach. I'm somewhat disapointed
that I wasn't able to get any local volunteers to help load it into the
truck. :-( Fortunately a local friend is willing to fly down and drive
back with me, but more help would be most appreciated. If anyone is
able to help, I'll buy them a meal and/or a few beers. I may not be
able to read email there, so to contact me, send a *short* email message
with your telephone number to eric-oct21(a)brouhaha.com, and it will show
up on my cell phone.
I guess I pay too much attention to details, but which single computer is it
you are going to pick up. Sorry I can't help from Toronto, but the air
fare is just a bit too much to LA. Mind you, I once went to visit my
son in Calgary and ended up with the insides of a BA23 box - I found
I could not fit the BA23 into any suitcase I had and even the power
supply was not a cost effective/weight effective/volume effective choice
relative to having 3 as spares already back in Toronto. The insides
even included a ST8760E and controller - not much of a find 4 years
ago, but satisfying since my first large hard drive of 600 MBytes was
6 times the price for the same drive about 10 years ago at a sell off.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine