24 Mar
1997
24 Mar
'97
1:30 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great A.R. Duell once stated:
Sound limited to me 8-)
At the auction I attended recently, Two large (and I mean physically
large) VAX systems were sold for $50 (for the two of them). If #431 [1]
wasn't bidding, it might have been fun to get them.
But then again, how would I get a one ton machine (not that I know that it
weighs that much, but it was huge) home? Where do I get three phase 220
power? Even though my office is the Cold Room [2] where I work, we don't
have the room or the power to run those things.
Shame really.
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:54:15 -0500,
"Captain Napalm" uttered:
What about machines built at prototypes only (PERQ 2T4, PERQ3A, Tiger?
Tandy Deluxe Coco, etc). Some of those are very difficult to find. Limited - only a single run ever made, and then,
not very
many.
How about some of the rarer minicomputers that were made in the '60s?
Beasts like the LINC-8 (of which there were only 142 built) or Packard
Bell equipment from the very early sixties count here. PDP-1. I hate to
flog a horse that's weak, but there is more to computing
life than microprocessors. Whilst I don't disagree that the micro-
based machines should be preserved (they should), I hope that folks,
Absolutely. It never fails to amaze me that some 1980's home micros
(particularly Sinclar ZX80's, ZX81's, etc and Commodore 64's) still fetch
quite high prices second-hand, while I am often _given_ minicomputer
equipment. The PERQ (sorry to keep on mentioning what I consider
to be one of the
finest machines ever made) has a minicomputer-like CPU (260+ chips, 74S181
ALUs, 2910 sequencer, etc) that you can get amongst together with a hi-res
bitmapped display.
Now that's a machine I wouldn't mind owning.
-spc (Anyone know anything about DEC VT320s?)
[1] Who bidded (and often outbid) on just about every lot in the
auction, and seemed not to care what he got or even interested
in what we has bidding for. Grrrrrrrr.
[2] In name only. It's the largest office actually, with two A/C
vents, and were all our companies servers are. I'm not the
sysadmin (at least, I don't want to be) though my partners
haven't realized that yet [3].
[3] Oh, this ISN'T alt.sysadmin.recovery? Sorry.