cost and I am with you on the 029, I used to use one and would love to have one of my own, although, as usual, I think space would be a problem. :-( Regards Rob

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Connor Krukosky <connork at connorsdomain.com> wrote: Nicely done. I have an 026 that needs to be completely cleaned, lubed and inspected. It was removed from a clean place where it was disused for decades, but AFAIK, it was stored in working order. -ethan

The two bids where actually me pushing my bid up worrying that there would be a snipe at the end but there was not... No-one else wanted it, it was luckily only about and hour from me. I have been slowly working on it, it now feeds and registers a card correctly but my main problem is dirty relay contacts it seems. I have zero experience as-well... The 024 and 026 were introduced 48 years before I was born so I honestly am tackling a new beast heh. But I have been slowly making progress :) Really they are complicated in their mechanics, the only overwhelming thing with the electronics are the sheer number of wires, especially to that keyboard! For the keys I am going to try and 3D print semi close replacements until I am lucky enough to find original keys... I wish those looking for an 029 luck, they seem to be quite rare in comparison to the 026 as I have previously said. The only reasoning I have found for this is because IBM seem to have sold off the rest of their inventory of 024/026 Keypunches and parts to a company called MAI which kept them going well after they were intended... Mine had a service booklet that says it had Service coverage affective in 1970 for the US Army. This was 6 years after the 029 was released in 1964 and 21 years after the 026 was introduced! Not to mention I think I have seen a service log entry into the early 80s (I have absolutely tons of these service logs)!! I do although have the desk for an 029... Likely will never find the guts but oh well it makes a cool desk until then :) I got that for free from a set of the desks, the rest were trashed that one was actually nice, but they used a bunch of trashed 029's to barely get one working so it wasn't put to waste I suppose. I at-least stopped the good desk from hitting the trash. -Connork On 6/6/2015 2:39 AM, Brent Hilpert wrote:

I know that as late as the mid-1970s 026's were refurbished and upgraded by a third-party (SORBUS?) as cheaper 029s and with the 029 character set. We had many of these 026-->029s where I went to school. Lee C. On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Cory Heisterkamp <coryheisterkamp at gmail.com> wrote: -- Lee Courtney +1-650-704-3934 cell

Please let me know if you find out about one near me that you don't wish to grab yourself on one of your trips. I'll be happy to do likewise for big stuff that I don't want myself. I figure that for large items like these, the bidding results will depend on whether there are two potential buyers close enough to pick up the item. End result might be no bids, one minimum bid, or a thousand+ bucks, depending. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net> http://www.nf6x.net/