I looked in detail. It is a large chunk of magnesium scrap. no cards,
horrible preservation.
Jeesh did he find it in the ditch there? and a $100,000 reserve.
Almost feels like I'm taking troll bait, but this guy might be this
deluded and be serious.
I know of a system that can work (maybe two). Main ingredient missing
from either is the drum (rotating part of the drum
assembly).
We got the documentation and some drum scrap from an auction about a
year ago, which I think is on bitsavers, but this unit is as I said
mainly something this guy should try not to set on fire, or let further
corrode.
Jim
On 3/4/2012 11:37 PM, DC wrote:
ebay item 220965768120
These have come up a few times on this list. If someone else has
posted this already sorry and send your complaints to /dev/null. It is
hard to tell if the list is working or not anymore.
The only thing this seems to have left is the memory disk deals. Still
the bottom portion is a new bit I've never seen. If I was a Russian
billionaire I'd buy this for 100K, stick a slab of glass on it, and
have the best coffee table ever. On my yacht of course.
Great pictures anyway. Should archive those for bitsavers.