21 Jul
2021
21 Jul
'21
3:49 p.m.
21 Jul
21 Jul
4:01 p.m.
Yeah....
Speaking of which I will be in Seattle at the train station on August
22nd. Was thinking of checking in on the LCM, but if it's still closed
I'd be happy to do dinner with anyone who is out there.
Anyone want to grab food?
C
On 7/21/2021 6:49 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
4:24 p.m.
On 7/21/21 4:01 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Yeah....
Speaking of which I will be in Seattle at the train station on August
22nd. Was thinking of checking in on the LCM, but if it's still closed
I'd be happy to do dinner with anyone who is out there.
Anyone want to grab food?
Is that the operation run by John Keys? I donated a few things to that one.
--Chuck
4:19 p.m.
On Jul 21, 2021, at 3:49 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2103793056560583/permalink/3118441161762429/
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/2103793056560583/permalink/3118441161762429/>
That?s heartbreaking, especially as I see stuff in there, that looks to very likely be
hardware I?m after (and I?m after almost nothing).
Zane
4:32 p.m.
On 7/21/2021 7:19 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
On Jul 21, 2021, at 3:49 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I agree, there are things that I would buy.? However, it is 1,500 miles
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2103793056560583/permalink/3118441161762429/
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/2103793056560583/permalink/3118441161762429/>
That?s heartbreaking, especially as I see stuff in there, that looks to very likely
be hardware I?m after (and I?m after almost nothing).
Zane
from me and would require a drive through the South, in
the Summer.? Ugh.
Doug
5:09 p.m.
Nice selection of dirty and yellowed computers in unknown condition.
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23 Jul
23 Jul
10:38 a.m.
On 7/21/21 7:09 PM, Teo Zenios via cctalk wrote:
Nice selection of dirty and yellowed? computers in
unknown condition.
Dirt can be removed, things can typically be repaired if needed, and not
all of us expect our systems to be the exact shade of whatever that they
were when they were built decades ago. :-)
Sadly it's getting on for 1,500 miles away from me.
2:10 p.m.
On 7/23/21 2:01 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 7/23/21 10:38 AM, Jules Richardson via cctalk
wrote:
I could actually use a few more CRTs. Well, not "use personally" - I've got
enough to just grab a suitable one when I want to fire a system up - but I
do keep thinking that if I ever thin out some of my duplicate machines, it
would be nice to offer the future owner the option of a display to go with it.
Sadly it's getting on for 1,500 miles away
from me.
just let this stuff be ecycled already like a friend said, we are all just delay lines for
the dump
Ha! That, I like.
21 Jul
21 Jul
6:12 p.m.
Al or other - any idea what happened to the SDS relics and detris HCM
picked up after the donation to CHM?
Lee
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 3:50 PM Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
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Lee Courtney
+1-650-704-3934 cell
11:24 p.m.
I stored the tape drives and printers from the SDS pile.? I asked when
the whole fiasco first surfaced and someone connected to the landlord
got into the mess.? They said there was no media.? I never saw any in
Kansas City which was to have been delivered as part of me storing that
stuff for him.? He took off with the mainframe boxes, processors and
maybe disks with a single trip, and only returned on threat of me
assuming ownership of the pile and took it.
None of the SDS to any report or query I made ever showed up.? Maybe
metal scrapped somewhere else.
All the stuff that is shown in the FB photos was a mess of newer smaller
equipment in a pile which looked like a bomb had gone off. The "nice"
pile seen in the FB post is way thinned out.? Looks like someone was
going to try to sell it off retail and those plans have changed.
Chuck, sad you donated anything to him.
thanks
Jim
On 7/21/2021 6:12 PM, Lee Courtney via cctalk wrote:
Al or other - any idea what happened to the SDS relics
and detris HCM
picked up after the donation to CHM?
Lee
22 Jul
22 Jul
9:27 a.m.
Here are the only pictures I could find when the keyboard vultures
descended two years ago
https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=20593
2:04 p.m.
On 7/21/21 6:12 PM, Lee Courtney wrote:
Al or other - any idea what happened to the SDS relics
and detris HCM picked up after the donation to CHM?
I was just in contact with the person who actually did the cleanout of the museum
warehouse (not the current seller)
"As I cleared the warehouse, I found bits and pieces of the 910 strewn across the
building in no specific order (backplanes, parts of tape
drives, boards, etc). I believe that the SDS system was destroyed and possibly scrapped,
except for the boards, which were all placed in boxes."
So he scrapped it.
2:30 p.m.
On 7/22/21 2:04 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 7/21/21 6:12 PM, Lee Courtney wrote:
here are the last known pictures of the cabinets, from Oct, 2010 when they were
picked up from Jim
https://www.flickr.com/photos/houcompmuseum/
i'm amazed the link still works
last message from him is here from alt.folklore.computers
which I posted here in 2019
https://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum/marketplace/vintage-computer-items-for-sa…
Al or other - any idea what happened to the SDS
relics and detris HCM picked up after the donation to CHM?
I was just in contact with the person who actually did the cleanout of the museum
warehouse (not the current seller)
"As I cleared the warehouse, I found bits and pieces of the 910 strewn across the
building in no specific order (backplanes, parts of tape
drives, boards, etc). I believe that the SDS system was destroyed and possibly scrapped,
except for the boards, which were all placed in
boxes."
So he scrapped it.
3:42 p.m.
On Jul 22, 2021, at 2:30 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
here are the last known pictures of the cabinets, from Oct, 2010 when they were picked up
from Jim
https://www.flickr.com/photos/houcompmuseum/
i'm amazed the link still works
Since that account only has 19 photo?s, they?ll probably last ?forever?. As far as I
know, flickr only purges photo?s from free accounts when they go over a certain number (it
used to be 200), and even then they may expect you to purge them.
Zane
21 Jul
21 Jul
7:41 p.m.
"Houston Computer Museum" ... I wouldn't call this a "museum".
The
condition of the stuff is fitting for a garbage tip. It is a disgrace.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 6:50 AM Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
7:47 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 8:41 PM Tom Hunter via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
"Houston Computer Museum" ... I wouldn't
call this a "museum". The
condition of the stuff is fitting for a garbage tip. It is a disgrace.
Isn't this the place in Texas that flooded last year?
Warner
On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 6:50 AM Al Kossow via cctalk
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7:52 p.m.
"Houston
Computer Museum" ... I wouldn't call this a "museum". The
condition of the stuff is fitting for a garbage tip. It is a disgrace.
Isn't this the place in Texas that flooded last year? 
9:06 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 10:52 PM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Houston and floods ...
I got stranded in Houston for two days on my last trip there.
Flooding around the airport caused a multi-day disruption in flights.
-ethan
"Houston Computer Museum" ... I wouldn't
call this a "museum". The
condition of the stuff is fitting for a garbage tip. It is a disgrace.
Isn't this the place in Texas that flooded last year? 
8:07 p.m.
New subject: Wold cost $$$$ to dispose of a those monitors!!!! If there is an hp 3000. Series 2 or 3 we would buy it. Contact èd sharpe
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 7:48 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 8:41 PM Tom Hunter via cctalk <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
wrote:
"Houston Computer Museum" ... I wouldn't
call this a "museum". The
condition of the stuff is fitting for a garbage tip. It is a disgrace.
Isn't this the place in Texas that flooded last year?
Warner
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