20 Aug
2010
20 Aug
'10
7:29 p.m.
Folks,
First off, apologies to those who've asked me about the DSSI drive
sleds etc I mentioned a while back, fret not, I still have them.
Reason for the above not happening - my landlord wants his house back.
This is a problem because I really fell on my feet when I found this
place and managed to squirrel away my entire collection. 3.5 years
later this town is home, my girlfriend is here, my friends are here so
I don't want to up sticks and move the whole lot again. Also there's
now no way I can afford a house with this much garage space.
So. As much as it pains me I have to come to the realisation that I'll
never actively use 90% of my DEC stuff, my CBM PET stuff, IBM PC
compatibles or the 'middling' Apple stuff like LCs, Mac IIs, Quadras
etc
I haven't extensively catalogued anything for years, but given that I
only have a month and a bit it's time to get my skates on.
I'm guessing nobody will be interested in my SUN and Cisco kit, or
Research Machines early PCs.
Over the weekend I'll catalogue the big DEC and Apple stuff and post it here.
Any advice or offers of collecting stuff from me gratefully received.
I can ship big things from work on receipt of money, even on pallets.
Cheers,
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Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest home?computer collection?
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk
20 Aug
20 Aug
8:08 p.m.
Just like they say in real estate...
location, location, location
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9:02 p.m.
Hi.
Sorry to hear that Adrian, you have some nice gear listed on your site.
I don't thinkg you will have problems finding a home for most of it.
Although a month is shorter than one might think.
Unless you have a PDP-8 tucked away in there, the shipping is probably
to prohibitive for me to give you any serious offers.
Cheers,
Pontus.
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 08:29:02PM +0100, Adrian Graham wrote:
Folks,
First off, apologies to those who've asked me about the DSSI drive
sleds etc I mentioned a while back, fret not, I still have them.
Reason for the above not happening - my landlord wants his house back.
This is a problem because I really fell on my feet when I found this
place and managed to squirrel away my entire collection. 3.5 years
later this town is home, my girlfriend is here, my friends are here so
I don't want to up sticks and move the whole lot again. Also there's
now no way I can afford a house with this much garage space.
So. As much as it pains me I have to come to the realisation that I'll
never actively use 90% of my DEC stuff, my CBM PET stuff, IBM PC
compatibles or the 'middling' Apple stuff like LCs, Mac IIs, Quadras
etc
I haven't extensively catalogued anything for years, but given that I
only have a month and a bit it's time to get my skates on.
I'm guessing nobody will be interested in my SUN and Cisco kit, or
Research Machines early PCs.
Over the weekend I'll catalogue the big DEC and Apple stuff and post it here.
Any advice or offers of collecting stuff from me gratefully received.
I can ship big things from work on receipt of money, even on pallets.
Cheers,
--
adrian/witchy
Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest home?computer collection?
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk
9:28 p.m.
From: Adrian Graham
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 12:29 PM
I'm guessing nobody will be interested in my SUN
and Cisco kit, or
Research Machines early PCs.
Hi, Adrian,
Depending on the age of the Cisco gear, we would be very interested. We're trying to
find early gear that can handle PUP as well as TCP/IP routing (ASM,
MSM, that class of router).
We're also interested in your other stuff, but I just wanted to let you know that old
Cisco is interesting.
Thanks,
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
(206) 342-2239
(206) 465-2916 cell
http://www.PDPplanet.org/
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
23 Aug
23 Aug
9:32 p.m.
On 21 August 2010 15:13, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Adrian Graham wrote:
Evening all,
Yes, I'm in the UK, near Cambridge and not that far from London.
Tonight I audited the entire left side of the garage and gave myself a
shock with how much DEC stuff there is, I'll list it separately, but
as a sample:
MINC-11 with RX02
3x Alpha 3000-400 (plus a motherboard)
3x MicroVAX 3100-30, 2x3100-20
DECstation 5000-240
Infoserver 150VXT
Alpha 2000-300 (Jensen)
Alpha AXP150
uVAX2000
Alpha 2000 4/233
DEChub90 with 3x DECrepeater 90-T16 on a DEHUX (metal wall bracket)
Grey Wall - VMS 5.0 with 5.5 updates
VAX 4000-200
VAX 4000-505A
VAX 4000-705A (might keep that one)
Thought I had more Cisco, but there's only a PIX Firewall
(Director500?), old blue box that's essentially an Intel PC
motherboard with an EISA ROM board containing the software.
SUN-wise there's less than I thought too, a SparcStation 5, Ultra
Enterprise 1, UltraEnterprise 2 and external disk box with either 8 or
10 SCA-80 bays, and somewhere there's an original keyboard and tin
mousemat. Oh, a monitor too with 13W3 connection.
A quick sniff on ebay (sorry) shows small demand for PETs, but demand
nonetheless. My 2001s are staying ;)
No need to shift the Apple kit yet I don't think, but some old
monitors will probably get recycled including an Apple Studio 17 which
I think has a faulty waveform generator. No display anyway.
Cheers for all the messages so far!
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Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest home? computer collection?
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk
I'm guessing nobody will be interested in my
SUN and Cisco kit, or
Research Machines early PCs.
I assume from your use of the colloquialism "kit" that you are a UK
resident?
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