18 Jun
2001
18 Jun
'01
9:57 a.m.
Hi Folks,
I gather nobody's interested in saving one of these pretty smart 80186 based
machines? I certainly haven't got room for 3 of 'em......
cheers
adrian/witchy
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the Online Computer Museum
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23 Jun
23 Jun
5:07 a.m.
Adrian, would you mind saving one of these for us?
A lot of action lately, I think we have 6 computers waiting to be
retreived. I'm going to North Carolina to rescue a Wang this coming
week, possibly with my mentally ill girlfriend. I suppose when I get
back I'll be quite tappy. My friends would be wont to say, "How could we
tell?"
We got the RCS/RI VS100 last week. It's a really beautiful machine, and
heavy. I don't think you'd want to try and fit one in your apartment,
though you might be able to make it up as a chesterfield. We just had an
IBM cardpunch given to us last night, and after a delay, it looks like
we're getting a flock of IBM 3380's in Wisconsin. Originally there were
2, then 4 now 6. I think they're breeding. Incidentally, you might want
to go to the University of Wisconsin site and hunt down their page on the
Titan Arum which just bloomed.
There's some sort of NCR sitting about 30 miles away. Maybe I'll get to
that in another week. We got a Perkin Elmer, also. It's starting to
look like they may be rebadged Concurrents.
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Adrian Graham wrote:
Hi Folks,
I gather nobody's interested in saving one of these pretty smart 80186 based
machines? I certainly haven't got room for 3 of 'em......
cheers
adrian/witchy
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the Online Computer Museum
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M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
1:30 p.m.
There's some sort of NCR sitting about 30 miles
away. Maybe I'll get to
that in another week. We got a Perkin Elmer, also. It's starting to
look like they may be rebadged Concurrents.
Nope Concurrent was a spun off Perkin-Elmer Computer Products
division... Formerly Interdata.
Interdata -> Perkin Elmer-> Concurrent which merged with Masscomp
to form Concurrent and was swallowed by Harris and still kept the name
Concurrent.
Some of the Interdata founders created Syntrex and early office
automation word processing group with a number of talented folks
from Bell Labs (and I think some folks who may have had
a connection
to Zilog and Exxon Office Systems)...
Bill
24 Jun
24 Jun
4:08 a.m.
That's a bit of an involved connection, isn't it? Would anyone on the
list have a front panel for a 3210? That seems to be about the only
thing missing, other than a P/E terminal.
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Bill Pechter wrote:
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
There's
some sort of NCR sitting about 30 miles away. Maybe I'll get to
that in another week. We got a Perkin Elmer, also. It's starting to
look like they may be rebadged Concurrents.
Nope Concurrent was a spun off Perkin-Elmer Computer Products
division... Formerly Interdata.
Interdata -> Perkin Elmer-> Concurrent which merged with Masscomp
to form Concurrent and was swallowed by Harris and still kept the name
Concurrent.
Some of the Interdata founders created Syntrex and early office
automation word processing group with a number of talented folks
from Bell Labs (and I think some folks who may have had a connection
to Zilog and Exxon Office Systems)...
Bill
4:12 p.m.
That's a bit of an involved connection, isn't
it? Would anyone on the
list have a front panel for a 3210? That seems to be about the only
thing missing, other than a P/E terminal.
Didn't see to many of them around Concurrent.
I assume you're talking about a real toggle switch front panel with
7 segment displays and such.
Most stuff like the 3210's had the limited function (pdp 11/34 -like)
boot, reset stuff on the top of the cabinet and no real programmers
front panel.
Now the 7/32's and 8/32's had real front panels.
Bill
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