25 Jul
2001
25 Jul
'01
6:33 a.m.
Well, even though I've already posted a couple times, I too am new to the list
and thought I'd chime in. I live and work in champaign-urbana, IL, and mostly
collect old UNIX machines -- I have a couple HP 735's, an HP 425/t, HP 300,
sun sparc 2, 5, and 20, an RS/6000, and some other crap. Oooo yeah, I got a
textronix model 31 electronic calculator recently, but haven't done anything
interesting with it yet -- I just know that it works. If anyone has tapes
for it, let me know, that would be fun to mess around with...
I've known about this list for a while, and just finally got around to signing
up a few days ago -- damn laziness :)
Later,
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
25 Jul
25 Jul
11:22 a.m.
Hi,
collect old UNIX machines -- I have [...], HP 300,
Do you mean HP 9000/300? (I presume you don't mean the poorly named
HP 300 Jornada handheld :)
The HP 300 (codename "Amigo") is an exceedingly rare computer from 1978 or so,
and didn't run Unix of any kind.
Pictures at: http://www.sieler.com/hp300/ (someone else's)
and http://www.sieler.com/hp300_2 (mine)
If you do have an HP 300, boy...do I want to talk to you! :)
thanks,
SS
Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com
www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html www.allegro.com/sieler
26 Jul
26 Jul
1:57 a.m.
Stan Sieler said:
Hi,
er, yeah, 9000/300. sorry for anyone that confused... that HP 300 you've got
is pretty cool-looking. what does it do? does it run any interesting OS?
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
-] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [-
``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
collect old UNIX machines -- I have [...], HP
300,
Do you mean HP 9000/300? (I presume you don't mean the poorly named
HP 300 Jornada handheld :)
The HP 300 (codename "Amigo") is an exceedingly rare computer from 1978 or so,
and didn't run Unix of any kind. 
2:53 a.m.
Dan Wright, on Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:34 AM, wrote:
... I got a
textronix model 31 electronic calculator recently, but haven't
done anything
interesting with it yet -- I just know that it works. If anyone
has tapes
for it, let me know, that would be fun to mess around with...
Congratulations on finding a great old calculator!
Check out http://www.geocities.com/oldcalculators/tek31.html
Rick Bensene
The Old Calculator Web Museum
http://www.geocities.com/oldcalculators
3 Aug
3 Aug
2:27 p.m.
Upon the date 01:33 PM 7/25/01 -0500, Dan Wright said something like:
Well, even though I've already posted a couple
times, I too am new to the list
and thought I'd chime in. I live and work in champaign-urbana, IL, and mostly
collect old UNIX machines -- I have a couple HP 735's, an HP 425/t, HP 300,
sun sparc 2, 5, and 20, an RS/6000, and some other crap. Oooo yeah, I got a
textronix model 31 electronic calculator recently, but haven't done anything
"Oooo yeah" is right! Nice rather rare catch Dan! I have one and I believe
a British list member has one too, IIRC. I have a manual in French (French
Canada) ;-\ Have only one tape. Can't imagine where to find any other
tapes commercially as it's decidedly proprietary. Came out of one of the
IBM-Endicott facilities back in the mid-80's when they did a bunch of
"downsizing". Still had some sort of test program on the tape which helped
me work out much of the programming syntax, etc.
Regards, Chris
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Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net
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4 Aug
4 Aug
3:28 a.m.
New subject: Tektronix 31 Re: what the hell.
At 10:27 PM 8/3/01 -0400, Chris wrote:
Upon the date 01:33 PM 7/25/01 -0500, Dan Wright said
something like:
I have one also and I think Sellam has one.. I seem to remember
that Sellam or someone else from the list got a load of tapes for it a year
or two ago.
Joe
Well, even though I've already posted a couple
times, I too am new to
the list
and thought I'd chime in. I live and work in
champaign-urbana, IL, and
mostly
collect old UNIX machines -- I have a couple HP
735's, an HP 425/t, HP 300,
sun sparc 2, 5, and 20, an RS/6000, and some other crap. Oooo yeah, I got a
textronix model 31 electronic calculator recently, but haven't done anything
"Oooo yeah" is right! Nice rather rare catch Dan! I have one and I believe
a British list member has one too, IIRC.
6 Aug
6 Aug
1:39 a.m.
Christian Fandt said:
"Oooo yeah" is right! Nice rather rare catch Dan! I have one and I believe
a British list member has one too, IIRC. I have a manual in French (French
Canada) ;-\ Have only one tape. Can't imagine where to find any other
tapes commercially as it's decidedly proprietary. Came out of one of the
IBM-Endicott facilities back in the mid-80's when they did a bunch of
"downsizing". Still had some sort of test program on the tape which helped
me work out much of the programming syntax, etc.
heh, I got mine out of the basement of one of the chemistry labs at U of
I...it was destined for the scrap pile and I thought "hey, that looks too
interesting to just throw out" and then later went and found out what it
actually was :) now I just hope someone decides to throw out whatever
experimental equipment they were controlling with the calculator...an old
spectrometer or something would be pretty cool :)
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
-] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [-
``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
4:20 a.m.
I have a Gas Chromatograph designed for this thing that I might be
persuaded to let go.
Peace... Sridhar
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Dan Wright wrote:
heh, I got mine out of the basement of one of the
chemistry labs at U of
I...it was destined for the scrap pile and I thought "hey, that looks too
interesting to just throw out" and then later went and found out what it
actually was :) now I just hope someone decides to throw out whatever
experimental equipment they were controlling with the calculator...an old
spectrometer or something would be pretty cool :)
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
-] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [-
``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
7 Aug
7 Aug
3:47 a.m.
really? how big is it? I'd definitly be interested, but I don't have a ton
of space in my apartment, so if it's too big I wouldn't have anywhere to put
it...
Master of all that Sucks said:
I have a Gas Chromatograph designed for this thing that I might be
persuaded to let go.
Peace... Sridhar
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Dan Wright wrote:
> heh, I got mine out of the basement of one of the chemistry labs at U of
> I...it was destined for the scrap pile and I thought "hey, that looks too
> interesting to just throw out" and then later went and found out what it
> actually was :) now I just hope someone decides to throw out whatever
> experimental equipment they were controlling with the calculator...an old
> spectrometer or something would be pretty cool :)
>
> - Dan Wright
> (dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
> (http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
>
> -] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [-
> ``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
> For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
> Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
>
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
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