22 Nov
2003
22 Nov
'03
3:18 p.m.
Hi Bob,
Has anyone asked for these yet? I would love a cool primitive lisp
environment. How big are they? Would you consider splitting the two. The
second unit would be great as a spare but I'm sure someone else would
appriciate one too.
Thanks
- Mike Haas
Brunswick, Georiga, USA
I have two Xerox 1108 machines with the souped-up
processor, colloquially
known
as a "Dandetiger". Both were working until
a few months back when I
finally
moved everything I really needed onto a somewhat more
modern machine. The
hard
disk drives are starting to make dry bearing kind of
noises and may be a
little
hard to boot, but otherwise seem to work OK. I was
having some problems
with
the floppy drives, but maybe that's just because
all my 8-inch floppies
are
antiques. The monitors work well, except that I think
there must be a
sloppy
connector somewhere: sometimes they sit silent for
several minutes after
power-on before suddenly making the flyback noises and coming to life.
In addition to the basic machines I have a couple of "busmaster" cards,
which
allow the Mesa bus to be plumbed into a PC extension
or multibus chassis.
I have the source code releases (on floppy) for Intermezzo, Koto, and
Lyric, and
Koto Beta NoteCards. I also have copies of the
LispUsers and Library
files, the
Koto source files, and floppy images taken before I
started having
problems with
the floppy drives. In theory it is therefore possible
to ftp this stuff
back to
one of the machines and remake the floppies as good as
new. Assuming the
RIAA
doesn't sue me for copyright infringements I will
be happy to supply CDs
of this
stuff to anyone who needs it.
There is also a shelf full of manuals (1 set only) and assorted notes I
have
acquired along the way.
Anyone interested in giving them a good home? I will give them away for
the
cost of shipping. Truly I am going to miss these
machines, but I can't
really
afford the space to keep them, or the time to tinker
with them.
I don't always keep up with this list, so if you are really interested
please
e-mail me directly.
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