HP vintage boards being sold as scrap - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Sep 2019

He is in RI, and I am in TX. Your shipper is in Calif.

You might consider contacting one of the computer museums in Rhode Island to
see if they will assist you.
http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/
https://www.rcsri.org/

Cindy

-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Dunphy [mailto:guykd at optusnet.com.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 10:39 PM
To: Electronics Plus
Subject: RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

At 04:46 PM 25/09/2019 -0500, you wrote:
...
 If enough people want them, and someone gets a winning
bid, then they can
come to me and I will repackage and ship them for the actual cost of
postage.

Cindy 
Thanks for the kind offer. Where are you, relative to the seller?

I can see a problem though. Isn't it impossible to have ebay-won 
items shipped to other than one's ebay-verified address? I'm not sure...
I know to get things sent to my reshipper, I have to have them set
as my 'real address' before bidding. 

That's why I asked if anyone is close enough to pick up the boards.
Not to mention sidestepping the seller's problematical packing intentions.

Guy

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 -----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Guy Dunphy
via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 4:01 PM
To: Brent Hilpert; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

At 12:00 PM 25/09/2019 -0700, you wrote:
 On 2019-Sep-25, at 3:07 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk
wrote:

  Does anyone else recognise some of the other
boards? 

There is a stack of IO interface boards, including HSTs, for the HP 2100/1000 series
there.

Lower-right stack in this pic, 7 boards, boards have one red and one grey handle:
>	https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/n08AAOSwjY5dg5Kd/s-l1600.jpg
>
>"HS Terminal" is discernible on one of them, and the one on top looks to
be
...
 an HS Terminal as well.
>Can't be certain about the others but they have the same size IO connector,
...
 they may all be HSTs.

HSTs are the basic RS232 & current loop, async serial-line interface boards,
12531D, used for the console and such in the 2100/1000 series,
 going back to the early machines of the series.

(HS is 'High-Speed', but that's relative to the late-60s, billed for up to
2400bps, but it is possible to operate them at higher speeds).

I'd buy one for, say 60$, if someone picks up the bunch and wants to flog one.

Sigh. And here I am putting together a rack with a HP 1000 system.
Though, some of those edge connectors look corroded.

I really would like those DtoA boards. So many! I have both a 3497A and the
3498A extender
plus a need for lots of cards for them. Plus I have the service manual with
schematics
so can repair them.

Anyway... the seller is listed as being in Warren, Rhode Island, United
States.
I'm in Australia, and have a reshipper in the US. BUT, the reshipper is on
the west coast.

Is there anyone on this list who lives in that area who could pick them up,
then pack and post
small sets of boards? I can afford to bid (fingers crossed), but _can't_
afford the postage
of "90 lbs" across the continent. Let alone to Australia.

The one existing bid, is that anyone here?

Guy

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