5 Jun
2008
5 Jun
'08
9:51 a.m.
Well, here's what happened:
http://www.corestore.org/coremove.htm
Some days I wish I had taken up stamp collecting...
Thanks to all who volunteered to give a home to the Convex!
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
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5 Jun
5 Jun
10:02 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Ross" <mross666 at hotmail.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:51 AM
Subject: Corestore - the Big Move
Some days I wish I had taken up stamp collecting...
===
Who says they're mutually exclusive? :)
I seem to collect computers, stamps, cameras, chess sets...
Jim
1:12 p.m.
Mike wrote:
Some days I wish I had taken up stamp collecting...
Jim wrote:
Who says they're mutually exclusive? :)
I seem to collect computers, stamps, cameras, chess sets...
Jim, it's extremely rude to encourage people that obviously already
have one collecting problem to add more! :-)
7:59 p.m.
I agree with eric on that one, im running out of places to put stuff!!!
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
Mike wrote:
Some days I wish I had taken up stamp
collecting...
Jim wrote:
Who says they're mutually exclusive? :)
I seem to collect computers, stamps, cameras, chess sets...
Jim, it's extremely rude to encourage people that obviously already
have one collecting problem to add more! :-)
6 Jun
6 Jun
2:51 p.m.
I'm married and that realy reduces storage space.
I'm not allowed to place computers in the bedroom living etc.. ;-)
Rik
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Verzonden: vrijdag 6 juni 2008 5:02
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Onderwerp: Re: Corestore - the Big Move
I agree with eric on that one, im running out of places to put stuff!!!
I ran outt of places to put machines years ago. Since then I've obtained
another PERQ, a couple of PDPs, a couple of P800s, an Acorn Cambridge
Workstation, numerous HP desktops, etc, etc, etc....
-tony
7 Jun
7 Jun
2:16 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Oh, I don't know about that -- I have a wife that tolerates my classic
computers, and I think the rarity of *that* combination is so
unfathomable that it threatens to implode the very fabric of space and time.
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I'm
married and that really reduces storage space.
Remember that it's much easier to find a good wife than a good classic
computer :-) 
3:15 p.m.
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Jim Leonard wrote:
My wife tells me I can bring home LMOs (Large Metal Objects) as long as
they fit in the computer room, my garage or the shop. I was granted a
special dispensation to put my 129 keypunch in the music studio. :-)
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
Remember that
it's much easier to find a good wife than a good classic
computer :-)
Oh, I don't know about that -- I have a wife that tolerates my classic
computers, and I think the rarity of *that* combination is so unfathomable
that it threatens to implode the very fabric of space and time. 
8:07 p.m.
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Jim Leonard wrote:
Oh, I don't know about that -- I have a wife that
tolerates my classic
computers, and I think the rarity of *that* combination is so
unfathomable that it threatens to implode the very fabric of space and time.
Never mind my previous post.
Does she have a sister?
8 Jun
8 Jun
4:38 p.m.
Jim Leonard wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
Oh, I don't know about that -- I have a wife that tolerates my classic
computers, and I think the rarity of *that* combination is so
unfathomable that it threatens to implode the very fabric of space and
time.
Likewise, on both counts.
I spend a lot of money on flowers and silly cards. :)
Doc
I'm
married and that really reduces storage space.
Remember that it's much easier to find a good wife than a good classic
computer :-) 
7 Jun
7 Jun
3:47 p.m.
I'm
married and that realy reduces storage space.
Rememeber that it's much easier to find a good wife than a good classic
computer :-) 
8 Jun
8 Jun
1:58 a.m.
At 3:47 PM -0700 6/7/08, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Being unmarried means I get to put my server rack in the dining room. That's
better than sex.
As I'm married, my server rack and workstations are in the dining
room, and my PDP-11's are in the bedroom I fail to see your point.
Zane
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I'm married and that realy reduces storage space.
Rememeber that it's much easier to find a good wife than a good classic
computer :-)
8:01 a.m.
Being
unmarried means I get to put my server rack in the dining room.
That's better than sex.
As I'm married, my server rack and workstations are in the dining
room, and my PDP-11's are in the bedroom I fail to see your point. 
18 Jun
18 Jun
1:45 p.m.
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:47:33 -0700 (PDT)
Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
Being unmarried means I get to put my server rack in
the dining room.
That's better than sex.
This is real geek porn:
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/people/m/pix/comp/
--
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Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
2:21 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:47:33 -0700 (PDT)
Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
Mein Gott in Himmel!
Warn people next time: NSFW :)
-Seth
Being unmarried means I get to put my server rack
in the dining room.
That's better than sex.
This is real geek porn:
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/people/m/pix/comp/ 
6:18 p.m.
--- On Wed, 6/18/08, Seth Morabito <sethm at loomcom.com> wrote:
From: Seth Morabito <sethm at loomcom.com>
Subject: Re: Corestore - the Big Move
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 5:21 PM
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Jochen Kunz
<jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:
Mein Gott in Himmel!
Warn people next time: NSFW :)
-Seth
OMG There are not enough drugs in the world to remove those images from my mind.
I'm from NYC and I thought I saw everything.
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:47:33 -0700 (PDT)
Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
> Being unmarried means I get to put my server rack
in the dining room.
That's better than sex.
This is real geek porn:
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/people/m/pix/comp/ 
8:37 p.m.
This is real geek porn:
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/people/m/pix/comp/
Mein Gott in Himmel!
Warn people next time: NSFW :)
-Seth
4:42 p.m.
I've seen plenty of pictures of nude people with
props carefully
positioned to obscure the, shall I say, 'naughty bits'.
'Twernt the naughty bits. 'Twere the hot hot mainframe action. It's just
not something appealing to ponder. :-P
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3:38 p.m.
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Being unmarried means I get to put my server rack in the dining room. That's
better than sex.
There's a married guy who kept a Nova 3 in his dining room for 20 years.
Can we get some pictures of its now home? (you know who you are)
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I'm married and that realy reduces storage space.
Rememeber that it's much easier to find a good wife than a good classic
computer :-)
8:35 p.m.
There's a married guy who kept a Nova 3 in his
dining room for 20 years.
Can we get some pictures of its now home? (you know who you are)
I am still wondering how I managed to convince my parents to let me put a
PDP11/45 system (2 racks + RK07 drives) and a PERQ in the hall. And to
fill most of the other rooms of the house with old computers and related
bits...
-tony
21 Jun
21 Jun
8:30 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
I'm still wondering how my parents let me run a water cooled mainframe
in the house. I had to pour a concrete pad for the exterior heat
exchanger and drill holes in the concrete shell of the basement for the
plumbing.
My parents were very encouraging about me learning about things, and I
am very thankful for that.
Peace... Sridhar
There's a
married guy who kept a Nova 3 in his dining room for 20 years.
Can we get some pictures of its now home? (you know who you are)
I am still wondering how I managed to convince my parents to let me put a
PDP11/45 system (2 racks + RK07 drives) and a PERQ in the hall. And to
fill most of the other rooms of the house with old computers and related
bits... 
22 Jun
22 Jun
8:48 a.m.
Hilarious, and disturbing... I admit I was afraid to click on the
"floppy" pics...
9:05 a.m.
Hilarious, and disturbing... I admit I was afraid to
click on the
"floppy" pics...
Clearly his internal drives were hard.
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6 Jun
6 Jun
5:11 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
If you collect a mixture of sizes, sometimes there's room to store the smaller
machines inside the bigger ones.
;)
I agree with
eric on that one, im running out of places to put stuff!!!
I ran outt of places to put machines years ago. Since then I've obtained
another PERQ, a couple of PDPs, a couple of P800s, an Acorn Cambridge
Workstation, numerous HP desktops, etc, etc, etc....
7:50 p.m.
If you collect a mixture of sizes, sometimes
there's room to store the smaller
machines inside the bigger ones.
Ah, so that's where I left a couple of HP41s -- inside a Unibus expansion
box :-)
Or :
If you can lose your screwdriver inside it, it's a micro
If you can lose your 'scope inside it, it's a mini
If you an lose yourself inside it, it's a mainframe.
-tony
11:31 p.m.
Tony wrote:
If you can lose your screwdriver inside it, it's a
micro
If you can lose your 'scope inside it, it's a mini
If you an lose yourself inside it, it's a mainframe.
That seems like a pretty good taxonomy, though I'd argue that
it would need at least one more category to cover the SAGE.
Eric
9:24 p.m.
> > Some days I wish I had taken up stamp
collecting...
> Who says they're mutually exclusive? :)
> I seem to collect computers, stamps, cameras, chess sets...
I collect dust.
I collect navel lint. Kind of squishy tho.
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9:25 p.m.
On Friday 06 June 2008 00:13, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Jim MacKenzie wrote:
I generally move around a little too much for that, but the equipment here
doesn't seem to have that advantage, unfortunately...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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M Dakin
Some days I wish I had taken up stamp
collecting...
===
Who says they're mutually exclusive? :)
I seem to collect computers, stamps, cameras, chess sets...
I collect dust.
Peace... Sridhar 
5 Jun
5 Jun
12:24 p.m.
On 5 Jun 2008, at 17:51, Mike Ross wrote:
Well, here's what happened:
http://www.corestore.org/coremove.htm
Rover gas turbine.. don't see many of them!!
4:18 p.m.
On 5/6/08 17:51, "Mike Ross" <mross666 at hotmail.com> wrote:
Well, here's what happened:
http://www.corestore.org/coremove.htm
Some days I wish I had taken up stamp collecting...
Thanks to all who volunteered to give a home to the Convex!
I tried, at least it has a home to go to :)
I don't envy you, Mike, just moving my own collection to Cambridge took 2
7.5t truckloads and there were no large format PDPs involved. I'd love that
storage area you had though! I'd get my house and garage back :)
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6 Jun
6 Jun
6:03 a.m.
Adrian Graham wrote:
I don't envy you, Mike, just moving my own
collection to Cambridge took 2
7.5t truckloads and there were no large format PDPs involved. I'd love that
storage area you had though! I'd get my house and garage back :)
A common misconception amongst collectors: that they can somehow free up space
for other things... :-)
9:13 a.m.
Glad to hear things worked out well. While I would have loved to have the Convex system,
I'm really glad you found it a good home. I understand why you'd want to have
someone over there take it rather than having to schlep it all the way over to the US
first :)
And, good luck on your PDP-10 sale. Maybe Paul Allen will Buy It Now...
I look forward to seeing the report of the unload, and your new computer room! Collecing
large iron is a hard thing to do, and finding a place to set it all up is difficult.
I'm currently looking to buy my own house, and "computer-able" space is the
main criteria I'm looking for. I have a couple of storage units full of large
computers (Vaxen, Primes, tape drives, disk drives, etc). At home, I have a walk-out
basement that has become a computer room, but it's not really big enough. There's
a couple of Vaxen, PDP-11's, a Data General and some Primes that live there, and
it's pretty full.
Good luck!
-Ian
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