6 Jun
2000
6 Jun
'00
5:57 a.m.
I visited the Computer Parts Barn yesterday and found some neat stuff.
Much of it was used by the Air Force for Missile testing etcetera. Here
is a partial list:
1ea Harris 600 - fully outfitted mini. Model H600-2 Serial # 252
1ea Dec H7204 expansion chassis with several cards
16ea DEC Vax 4000 minis with 40mb ram, hard drives were pulled by Boeing
and scrapped but CPB has lots of scsi hard disks. CPU is KA46. Model
is V546K-AD
Monitors for the DEC 4000 machines are VR-19HA (Sony GDM1961)
1ea DEC RL02 disk unit in rack
1ea DEC TA78-BF R-B1 Rack-mount tape unit in rack
3ea RA-81 disk units in 19" rack
3ea HP7920 hdd
1ea HP1000 mini with 7970 tape unit in rack
1ea hdd7906 (HP disk) in rack
You can contact Ed Kirby of CPB at EDCPB(a)email.com
Hope you found something you wanted!
6 Jun
6 Jun
6:42 a.m.
I visited the Computer Parts Barn yesterday and found
some neat stuff.
Much of it was used by the Air Force for Missile testing etcetera. Here
is a partial list:
1ea Harris 600 - fully outfitted mini. Model H600-2 Serial # 252
Man am I glad I'm on the west coast, and a long way away from this puppy!
How many Racks? Two? I'm not sure this is the same model I got my start
on, but it's the first time I've seen an old Harris Mini mentioned. Anyone
know what model Harris the "SNAP-2" systems were?
BTW, the best version of Zork I've ever played was on a Harris.
Zane
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6:50 a.m.
New subject: New find
This morning I've been somewhat lucky...
Walking into a Wertstoffhof (basicly a sub of the
city waste department where people deposit big
stuff for recycleing - Ethan may describe it), I
peeked into the computer container to have a look
at the usual scraped 2/386es, just to see a
4032-32N PET laying on top .... 10 seconds and
20 Marks later it visited my car ....
Gruss
H.
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7:51 a.m.
New subject: New find
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Hans Franke wrote:
This morning I've been somewhat lucky...
Indeed! :-)
at the usual scraped 2/386es, just to see a
4032-32N PET laying on top .... 10 seconds and
20 Marks later it visited my car ....
Is this a Commodore PET? Back around 1981 when I was beginning
college, the computer lab (in the same building with the card punch
machines and non-full-screen terminals for an IBM 4381) was a room
full of Commodore PET computers and one TRS-80. Oddly, the only thing
I noticed students doing with the PETs was: playing card games. They
appeared to be interesting machines.
Good luck with your new find!
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8 a.m.
New subject: New find
> at the usual scraped 2/386es, just to see a
> 4032-32N PET laying on top .... 10 seconds and
> 20 Marks later it visited my car ....
Is this a Commodore PET? Back around 1981 when I was
beginning
college, the computer lab (in the same building with the card punch
machines and non-full-screen terminals for an IBM 4381) was a room
full of Commodore PET computers and one TRS-80. Oddly, the only thing
I noticed students doing with the PETs was: playing card games. They
appeared to be interesting machines.
Over here the stuff was named CBM 4032 (it's a big screen model,
so it's for shure a late one ~1984), but as I had to learn, our
friends across the pond name almost any Commo PET...
Gruss
H.
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http://www.homecomputer.de/vcfe
3:29 p.m.
New subject: New find
Wow! That's great, Hans. Congratulations. If I see a PET 4032 (or 2001?
Am I dreaming?) laying around over here for that amount of money, you can
bet I'll be going home with it :-)
- Earl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans Franke" <Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de>
at the usual scraped 2/386es, just to see a
4032-32N PET laying on top .... 10 seconds and
20 Marks later it visited my car ....
Gruss
H.
3:02 p.m.
New subject: New find
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Earl Evans wrote:
Wow! That's great, Hans. Congratulations. If I
see a PET 4032 (or 2001?
Am I dreaming?) laying around over here for that amount of money, you can
bet I'll be going home with it :-)
Schools (grade through high) had a lot of these at one point or another.
Try poking around the schools in your extended area and see if any leads
turn up.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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8:24 p.m.
New subject: New find
Date sent: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 20:02:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: New find
Send reply to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Earl Evans wrote:
> Wow! That's great, Hans. Congratulations. If I see a PET 4032 (or 2001?
> Am I dreaming?) laying around over here for that amount of money, you can
> bet I'll be going home with it :-)
It's only a 12" (Big) Version (See
http://www.i-m.de/home/compmuseum/commodore/4032.jpg
)
Schools (grade through high) had a lot of these at one
point or another.
Try poking around the schools in your extended area and see if any leads
turn up.
Gone since years over here
Gruss
H.
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