The Goodwill's here in Houston could not give them away back in '94 and
'95. A place that is no longer here called Purple Heart used to have
them up the second floor of their building with the furniture and TV's.
Value Village took over the store and things are different as to what
they will take in now. If you read the Goodwill signs in the donation
area they do not take computers and TV's as donations anymore but
somehow they always have both in some of the stores. I use to see them
at a small auction house here all the time and no one would bid on them.
I was not into the big stuff back then and now I kick myself in the butt
for not getting a couple of these and other items for little or nothing
in cost.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ethan Dicks" <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: IBM 026 Printing Card Punch
--- "John R. Keys Jr." <jrkeys(a)concentric.net> wrote:
> Yes I remember just 6 years ago that all the thrifts here had the
029
keypunch
machines for sale from $1 to $20.
Where the *F* do you live? I've never seen any sort of equipment
of that sort at the thrifts around me. My 026 came out of Bordon
Chemical when they dumped their old PDP-11/70s. It hadn't been used
in years, obviously.
Now I can't find one to save my life.
The last time I saw more than one in one place at one time was at
Ohio State, c. 1983. They went from punch cards to crappy terminals
on the "Wylbur" system around then.* Shoulda heard the Grad Students
wail when they took the old stuff away. They had years of warning,
but some hadn't yet entered the post-punch-card era.
-ethan
* Wylbur was so crappy, it made ed look like WYSIWYG. I opted for the
3270 terminals at the main facility - there was a line sometimes, but
the editing experience was sooo much nicer.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com>
> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:01 PM
> Subject: Re: IBM 026 Printing Card Punch
>
>
> > On Tue, 28 May 2002, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
> >
> > > Very nice and now I will have to find one. :-)
> >
> > Good luck. Any kind of keypunch is very rare these days. I was
lucky
> to
> > find this one, in as good a shape as it's in (I suspect this is a
> > testament to how well IBM built their equipment).
> >
> > Sellam Ismail Vintage
Computer
Festival
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