12 Mar
2015
12 Mar
'15
1:22 p.m.
Thought id share this with you guys.
http://annarbor.craigslist.org/sys/4913726464.html
He says his bottom dollar is $250.
I could possibly coordinate pick up if someone out of the area wanted
it. Just cover my gas is all I ask.
Steve
12 Mar
12 Mar
2:14 p.m.
I live in Ann Arbor (well, Ypsilanti) and I've been tracking that thing on
eBay for at least a year or so... nine months? I figure, if I ever see the
listing disappear, I will try to catch the seller on the way to the scrap
yard, ha ha... I think they would have better luck if they parted it out;
nobody wants to take that rack; I would gladly take the BA23 local pickup
and I'd even offer them like $100 or something for it separately but I
don't want the rest... They could probably get a decent price for the
9-track drive if they pulled that and sold it separately... they are likely
never going to move the gear (outside of paying someone to come pick it up)
unless they ditch the rack.
If anyone here is interested in the deal; I'm happy to facilitate as much
as I can but my garage has got enough racks in it already, LOL.
Best,
Sean
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Steven Landon <slandon110 at gmail.com> wrote:
Thought id share this with you guys.
http://annarbor.craigslist.org/sys/4913726464.html
He says his bottom dollar is $250.
I could possibly coordinate pick up if someone out of the area wanted it.
Just cover my gas is all I ask.
Steve
8:24 p.m.
There's nothing particularly special about it... just a (relatively
stripped, at that) BA23 and a CDC 9-track drive in a rack. If the buyer
could actually sell the stuff by breaking it into shippable parts it might
contribute to a good home for the gear in the long run I don't see any harm
in that... Many systems are designed to be whole-rack units and I agree
it's wrong to split those up... but IMO this is not really an example of
that...
Best,
Sean
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Jay West <jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Sean wrote...
my garage has got enough racks in it already,
LOL.
To which Mark replied
blasphemy!
Nah, blasphemy would be parting the thing out like Sean suggested.
$250-$300 for that.... reasonable in my book.
J
13 Mar
13 Mar
8:36 a.m.
On 03/12/2015 10:24 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
There's nothing particularly special about it...
just a (relatively
stripped, at that) BA23 and a CDC 9-track drive in a rack. If the buyer
could actually sell the stuff by breaking it into shippable parts it might
contribute to a good home for the gear in the long run I don't see any harm
in that... Many systems are designed to be whole-rack units and I agree
it's wrong to split those up... but IMO this is not really an example of
that...
Hmmm, CDC 9-track tape drive? How is that interfaced? SCSI?
Ah, I see some mention of Emulex boards, so probably one of
those is the Pertec formatted interface. The tape drive is a
Magnetic Peripherals Inc., either 92181 (800/1600) or a
92185 (1600/6250).
There was a SCSI interface board for these drives, which I'd
like to find. I have a 92185 with the Pertec interface, and
made
a hideous little interface board for it, but it is somewhat of
a nightmare.
Jon
9:29 a.m.
I guess I just look at the situation more that I was able to get more VAX
shipped in from CA for less money than simply picking this thing up in my
own backyard... If the system is really important to someone I'm happy to
help facilitate your purchase and you're welcome to store it in my garage
for some definite period of time :O
I didn't ever mean to say the 9-track drive was worthless, quite the
contrary, it's probably where the bulk of the value is in the rack... it's
just that I can't really use it personally so it's less interesting to me.
Best,
Sean
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Jon Elson <elson at pico-systems.com> wrote:
On 03/12/2015 10:24 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
There's nothing particularly special about
it... just a (relatively
stripped, at that) BA23 and a CDC 9-track drive in a rack. If the buyer
could actually sell the stuff by breaking it into shippable parts it might
contribute to a good home for the gear in the long run I don't see any
harm
in that... Many systems are designed to be whole-rack units and I agree
it's wrong to split those up... but IMO this is not really an example of
that...
Hmmm, CDC 9-track tape drive? How is that interfaced? SCSI?
Ah, I see some
mention of Emulex boards, so probably one of
those is the Pertec formatted interface. The tape drive is a
Magnetic Peripherals Inc., either 92181 (800/1600) or a
92185 (1600/6250).
There was a SCSI interface board for these drives, which I'd
like to find. I have a 92185 with the Pertec interface, and made
a hideous little interface board for it, but it is somewhat of
a nightmare.
Jon
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