19 Jul
2021
19 Jul
'21
4:03 p.m.
Just out of interest, is the software for the Tektronix 8002 microprocessor
lab archived out there anywhere?
What I believe is one popped up on one of my Facebook groups, and it'd be a
trek to get it even if I can arrange a good price with the current owner -
but it sounds like the software at the site, if it still exists, is
unlikely to surface from a huge pile of detritus, so that automatically
puts things right in boat anchor territory.
There may or may not be a terminal, too; I get the impression those were
optional (I've been told that there are two Tek terminals, I just don't
know if they're the right models for this system).
cheers
Jules
19 Jul
19 Jul
4:11 p.m.
You might check with the Tektronix museum, and see what they know. As far as I know, they
aren?t actually part of Tektronix.
Zane
On Jul 19, 2021, at 4:03 PM, Jules Richardson via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Just out of interest, is the software for the Tektronix 8002 microprocessor lab archived
out there anywhere?
What I believe is one popped up on one of my Facebook groups, and it'd be a trek to
get it even if I can arrange a good price with the current owner - but it sounds like the
software at the site, if it still exists, is unlikely to surface from a huge pile of
detritus, so that automatically puts things right in boat anchor territory.
There may or may not be a terminal, too; I get the impression those were optional
(I've been told that there are two Tek terminals, I just don't know if they're
the right models for this system).
cheers
Jules
4:15 p.m.
On 7/19/21 4:03 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
Just out of interest, is the software for the Tektronix 8002 microprocessor lab archived
out there anywhere?
I have some but it is hard-sectored so I've never tried to read it.
It's pretty unlikely anyone at the tek museum would have tried to recover
the floppies even if they had them.
One of my 'really like to try to recover' things at CHM is we have a bunch of
floppies from
the company that designed it for Tek, but someone put a center punch through every disk,
so
I'm going to have to take them out of the jacket and try to flatten the dent out as
best as
I can.
4:20 p.m.
On 7/19/21 4:03 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
Just out of interest, is the software for the Tektronix 8002 microprocessor lab archived
out there anywhere?
It would be nice to save a complete system though, since most have been tossed out since
there is little
practical use for them now. I never had a whole one, just board sets for various
processors that I collected
over the years.
4:25 p.m.
On 7/19/21 4:20 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 7/19/21 4:03 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
It would be nice to save a complete system though,
since most have been tossed out since there is little
practical use for them now.
I've collected a LOT of in-circuit emulators and microprocessor development systems
over the decades, and
I'm trying to decide right now what I'm going to do with them.
20 Jul
20 Jul
3:22 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Al Kossow
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cctalk
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 7:25 PM
To: Al Kossow via cctalk
Subject: Re: Tektronix 8002 microprocessor lab software
On 7/19/21 4:20 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
tossed
out since there is little
On 7/19/21 4:03 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk
wrote:
> It would be nice to save a complete system though, since most have been practical use
for them now.
I've collected a LOT of in-circuit emulators and microprocessor I'm trying to decide right now what I'm going
to do with them.
If there's an HP 64276 Microprogram Development Subsystem
(http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/hp/64000/brochures/5953-9279_Micropr
ogram_Development_Subsystem_Jun-1985.pdf) in there I'm interested in taking
it off your hands. Or off the hands of anyone else who might have one :-}.
paul
19 Jul
19 Jul
5:53 p.m.
On 7/19/21 6:20 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 7/19/21 4:03 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk
wrote:
Well sadly it's looking like game over. By the sounds of it there's a
basement full of old equipment and boards, and a scrapper out in OH has
offered $6k for the lot, sight unseen, just on the hope that they can make
a buck on the gold and palladium content.
The next offer seems to be from someone who's planning on just dumping it
on ebay - so if the scrapper deal falls through maybe it'll resurface on
That Auction Site for lolprice...
This is starting to feel like one of those situations where it's a huge
shame that the original owner of this stuff didn't have a will expressing
what should be done with it all.
Just out of interest, is the software for the Tektronix 8002
microprocessor lab archived out there anywhere?
It would be nice to save a complete system though, since most have been
tossed out since there is little
practical use for them now.
6:17 p.m.
On 7/19/21 7:53 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
Well sadly it's looking like game over. By the
sounds of it there's a
basement full of old equipment and boards, and a scrapper out in OH has
offered $6k for the lot, sight unseen, just on the hope that they can make
a buck on the gold and palladium content.
annnnd... right after I hit send on that, things start looking up again.
The guy responsible for this stuff doesn't seem to want it to get scrapped
any more than I do, and he got in touch with folks down at Cape Canaveral
(there are various ex-NASA things in the pile), then talked to the family
of the estate; it sounds like some of it at least might get donated to the
collection down there.
I'm not sure about non-NASA things at this point, we'll see - but it sounds
like there's interest now in not junking it, at least!
Jules
7:56 p.m.
On Jul 19, 2021, at 6:17 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 7/19/21 7:53 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
That?s a bit of good news!
Zane
Well sadly it's looking like game over. By
the sounds of it there's a basement full of old equipment and boards, and a scrapper
out in OH has offered $6k for the lot, sight unseen, just on the hope that they can make a
buck on the gold and palladium content.
annnnd... right after I hit send on that, things start looking up again. The guy
responsible for this stuff doesn't seem to want it to get scrapped any more than I do,
and he got in touch with folks down at Cape Canaveral (there are various ex-NASA things in
the pile), then talked to the family of the estate; it sounds like some of it at least
might get donated to the collection down there.
I'm not sure about non-NASA things at this point, we'll see - but it sounds like
there's interest now in not junking it, at least!
Jules
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