20 May
2004
20 May
'04
5:09 p.m.
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 12:36:58PM -0400, Dan Veeneman wrote:
Friday weather was pretty good. Classic computer-wise
I picked up
a Heathkit ET-3400 with the Memory I/O expansion, along with all
the manuals.
I've been keeping my eye out for one of these - I missed the one
that recently went on ePay for $41 because of satellite problems. :-(
I bought a Micro PDP-11 and borrowed the seller's
hand-truck to
get it out to my car. Right now it's in my garage -- I have no
documentation and haven't had time yet to check it out.
Wow! I haven't seen one of those at Dayton in a long time. I'd
be curious what model.
I hefted a Heathkit H-47 eight-inch drive housing (no
drives) back
to the car. Quite heavy.
Do you have the Heathkit Qbus card to go with it or just the drives?
It's not electrically RX01 compatible, but with the card, it is
logically compatible (I have one at home that I was debugging when
I left).
I also bought a whole bunch of Texas Instruments
calculator repair
parts, which happened to include a few TIL-311 LED displays.
Nice. Hopefully they didn't cost more than a couple of bucks each.
I met fellow list-member Dan Cohoe, who had a truck
full of HP
equipment (mostly 64000 stuff). Very nice guy, except that he's
taking all the old HP gear up to Canada! :-)
He'll do that! :-)
He also comes down to Northern Ohio to raid for DEC equipment. We've
traded stuff before, when he comes through.
Saturday was mostly rain, but I did get a Hayes
Micromodem II
card for the Apple, as well as some non-computer test equipment
and manuals. Sellers were motivated to drop prices since there were
few buyers out and many of them decided to leave early.
A very typical pattern. What gets hard is cruising the aisles when
everything is covered because it _might_ rain again.
-ethan
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Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 20-May-2004 21:00 Z
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