22 Apr
2004
22 Apr
'04
6:33 a.m.
Someone just posted some odd items on the VCM. Anyone have any
information on the MIT "Dumbkoff 1"?
http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=608
From the same seller, a Remington-Rand Selectron 256
bit Memory Tube:
http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=607
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22 Apr
22 Apr
7:22 a.m.
I can't find any reference to a Dumbkoff 1 orDumbkoff anything else
computer related, although I did find the word "Dumbkoff" used to mean
"idiot" or "someone stupid".
I did find reference to the Remington-Rand 256 bit tube. Check this out:
http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/Histoire/english/information_technology/inform
ation_technology_2.htm
- Ashley
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Subject: Weird items on VCM
Someone just posted some odd items on the VCM. Anyone have any
information on the MIT "Dumbkoff 1"?
http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=608
Festival
From the same seller, a Remington-Rand Selectron
256 bit Memory Tube:
http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=607
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9:47 a.m.
Rumor has it that Ashley Carder may have mentioned these words:
I can't find any reference to a Dumbkoff 1
orDumbkoff anything else
computer related, although I did find the word "Dumbkoff" used to mean
"idiot" or "someone stupid".
It's a misspelling of Dummkopf, which (most literally) in German is:
Dumm == Dumb
Kopf == head
A closer translation would probably be "addlebrained".
I did find reference to the Remington-Rand 256 bit
tube. Check this out:
http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/Histoire/english/information_technology/inform
ation_technology_2.htm
That's pretty cool... thanks for the link!
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
26 Apr
26 Apr
2:22 p.m.
At 02:22 PM 4/22/2004, you wrote:
I did find reference to the Remington-Rand 256 bit
tube. Check this out:
http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/Histoire/english/information_technology/inform
There is a picture at:
http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/2-1.htm
- John
27 Apr
27 Apr
11:24 a.m.
Re:
>I did find reference to the Remington-Rand 256 bit
tube. Check this out:
>http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/Histoire/english/information_technology/inform
An ad for it didn't sell on eBay recently:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=21092&item=3…
1&ssPageName=WDVW
seller: kims-vintage-ads
(I mention this in case the winner would like to contact "Kim" to buy
the ad)
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www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html
28 Apr
28 Apr
5:06 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Sieler" <sieler(a)allegro.com>
To: "John Foust" <jfoust(a)threedee.com>om>; <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Weird items on VCM
Re:
> >I did find reference to the Remington-Rand 256 bit tube. Check this
out:
m
An ad for it didn't sell on eBay recently:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=21092&item=3…
1&ssPageName=WDVW
seller: kims-vintage-ads
(I mention this in case the winner would like to contact "Kim" to buy
the ad)
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Stan Sieler
sieler(a)allegro.com
www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html
This looks like an ad from National Geographic. You can pick up the mags for
a buck here in Toronto at any number of places. I have one of an IBM
'electronic calculator' that replaces 50 engineers with sliderules. It's
from February 1952. The only reason I buy them when I
see them is for the
ads.
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