2 Nov
2000
2 Nov
'00
7:27 p.m.
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, R. D. Davis wrote:
Hmmm.... have to do something about that! The sounds
that system
makes when running are too much fun to have it sit quietly. :-)
Anyway, it's good to know that one of these is being preserved.
Aside from no O.S., do you know if the hardware is ok, or
possibly ok? The system that I worked with had some sort of floppy
disk holder inside the front chasis panel with a diagnostics
floppy located there. Did you get one of these?
I think so but can't remember. I bought this at a surplus auction in San
Jose so I only got to it well after it had been decommissioned. It
apparently came out of GE Nuclear in San Jose or thereabouts.
That looks like a much nicer system than the one I
worked with; it
also appears newer. Looking at the tape drive on yours, it doesn't
appear to use a vacuum column for the tape tension. When the CPU
cabinet's front door was opened, instead of what all I see in yours
(what all's there?), there was just metal screening that allowed one o
see the lights on the boards in the card-cage.
This has a big card cage where if I recall correctly the cards are mounted
horizontally. They are pretty large, like 18"x18".
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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