25 Dec
2006
25 Dec
'06
10:52 a.m.
I guess you should hold off on buying his PDP8 stuff
Between what Eric Smith, CHM and others have I don't think I need
any of his PDP-8 stuff. The Royotron stuff is much more rare since
the punch is used in DEC reader/punches but the info in them isn't
in the DEC service docs.
I normally don't say anything about getting stuff run up on me, but
paying $150+ to have the seller turn around and try selling scans for
$10 was depressing (only good thing is he claims 200dpi, which
won't be all that great).
25 Dec
25 Dec
10:58 a.m.
In article <3AF2A3CE-7796-44E9-A895-FE99EEE636FC at bitsavers.org>,
Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes:
I normally don't say anything about getting stuff
run up on me, but
paying $150+ to have the seller turn around and try selling scans for
$10 was depressing (only good thing is he claims 200dpi, which
won't be all that great).
Oh, now I get it. I didn't look at the other items to see that you'd
already paid for them. Yeah, that's pretty sleazy. But hey, its
ebay, what did you expect? All sweetness and nice? It still hurts,
but not as bad as if you got the manuals sent to you and they arrived
as a smashed pile of parts at your feet.
--
"The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download
<http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html>
Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>
11:15 a.m.
Between what Eric Smith, CHM and others have I
don't think I need
any of his PDP-8 stuff.
If you talk to Eric soon, please prod him about my tapes in limbo. I
gave him five shoeboxes of tapes (PDP-8/S, Interdata and MAC16) to
give to you when he did that cross country trip several years ago.
--
Will
11:40 a.m.
At 7:52 AM -0800 12/25/06, Al Kossow wrote:
Something else to think about is that he can claim copywrite on the
compilation of those scans, thereby preventing you from posting *HIS*
scans, so just do yours at a higher resolution :^)
Somehow this guy reminds me of a lot of people selling Genealogy
CD's. The library has thousands of them (it's a lot more than just
computer history), and I was horrified to learn that a lot are only
one book (PDF) per CD.
Zane
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
I guess you
should hold off on buying his PDP8 stuff
Between what Eric Smith, CHM and others have I don't think I need
any of his PDP-8 stuff. The Royotron stuff is much more rare since
the punch is used in DEC reader/punches but the info in them isn't
in the DEC service docs.
I normally don't say anything about getting stuff run up on me, but
paying $150+ to have the seller turn around and try selling scans for
$10 was depressing (only good thing is he claims 200dpi, which
won't be all that great). 
26 Dec
26 Dec
7:54 a.m.
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Al Kossow wrote:
any of his PDP-8 stuff. The Royotron stuff is much
more rare since
the punch is used in DEC reader/punches but the info in them isn't
in the DEC service docs.
If this is the punch in the PC05 reader/punch, then I think I have the
Royotron maintenance manual for it. I had to completely disassemble the
punch in our PC05, remove all signs of rust and dirt, remove each single
punch needle and clean it, remove each single punch magnet and
resolder/glue the wires to the coils (they all fell off due to corrosion)
and so on. The punch's working great now...
(See also http://computermuseum-stuttgart.de/dev/tmp/pc05.html)
Christian
6381
days inactive
6382
days old
4 comments
5 participants
participants (5)
-
aek＠bitsavers.org -
cc＠corti-net.de -
healyzh＠aracnet.com -
legalize＠xmission.com -
wdonzelli＠gmail.com