Take a look at this <http://home.cfl.rr.com/rigdon14/mds800-3/blue-w~1.jpg>
I went scrounging Thrusday and went to my favorite scrap yard. I knew I was in trouble
as soon as I drove into the place! Everywhere I looked I saw blue. Intel blue! I
don't even know how many I bought. I've made two trips bringing it back so far I
estimate that over 60% is is still there! The stuff in the picture is PART of what
I've brought home so far. The LH stack has a MDS-230 and MDS-225, In front of that is
an iUUP EPROM programmer and two MDS keybaords. The next stack has an OLD Intel terminal
and a MDS-225. The third stack has a MDS-230, a Mostek dual 8" floppy drive box and
an Intel DDR external 8" floppy drive box. On the right is a homebrewed S-100. In
front is a SWEAT MDS-800. As you might have guessed from the picture, this stuff is
sitting outside. The OL says that I HAVE to clean the house out before Christmas. I have
another DDR drive chassis and a big stack of loose Multibus cards inside the house. I
found the Multibus cards in a basket of cards that were going to be ground up for the gold
scrap. I still at least two more MDS-2??s, a MDS-800, another Intel terminal, several
external drive chassis AND (drum roll, please) a dish washer sized Intel external hard
drive to pick up.
For you heathins, there was also a huge pile of other classic computers. I bought a BBC
Acorn, a home brewed S-100 crate, two Morrow external 8" floppy drives, a so far
unidentified STD-Bus computer, five new Shugart SA-1004 8" hard drives, AT LEAST 20
Shugart 8" floppy drives, a Wicat computer, four different and FUNKY programmers
panels, a rack mount dual 8" floppy drive box made by Mostek, a old but clean
Centronics printer, a loaded Cromemco Z-2D, an Osborne OCC-1, a nice 80 TPI 5 1/4"
floppy drive in an external case and a mass of other stuff that I can't even remember!
I left behind a huge pile of Xerox 820s including external floppy and hard drives, an
unidentified Xerox computer that's wider than the 820, a Multibus computer chassis
made by Advanced MicroComputers (I think they're a subsidary of AMD) I later found the
cards for the AMC computer in the pile of Multibus cards that I dug out of the gold scrap
bin so I may go back and get it. Also left behind a GenRad 2300 Advanced Developement
System with it's external dual 8" floppy drives and an external expansion
chanssis. I wasn't sure what it was but later fround that it's a CPM system. Looks
interesting but probably hopeless trying to find docs and SW.
To top it all off as I was leaving Friday (trip 2) I went over to see the guy that they
have stripping everything. I looked at what he was doing and he was busily gutting a drum
memory!!! I looked around and found another that he had already torn one apart and I found
there was one more to go. I wasn't intersted in it at the time but now I'm
wondering if I should have gotten it. He said it weighed over 140 pounds! It looked like a
1/2 scale v-8 engine!
That's all for now, back to cleaning, sorting and packing!
Joe
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