16 Dec
2015
16 Dec
'15
4:58 p.m.
From: jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: Re: Decisions you regret Was: Mystery IC: Allen Bradley
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From: Brent
Hilpert
I threw out a print-only selectric a few years
ago ... Regret it now,
just because it would have been fun to figure it out. C'est la vie.
I can top that. Every time I think about it I kick myself... Sigh!
Although I suspect a lot of people here have stories like that...
Yep. Among the things that I have given away (to Goodwill, or possibly
Salvation Army) - all in running condition:
- A complete HP-1000 system: A600 processor with internal hard drive, serial
card + 8-port serial mux, all floppies, all documentation, a 2631G printer,
7912 13 MB disk drive, and two 2624B terminals
- My CP/M "network", with Cromemco Z2-H with two 5 MB hard drives and two
8"
floppies, 8-port serial card, connected to three H-19 terminals (the BIOS
allowed you to become the console by typing ^C anywhere), HP2648 graphics
terminal with tape cartridges, HP 2762 terminal (a re-badged GE
Terminet-300), and an H-89 with three external floppies
- Ancient SCM TypeTronic system, with the main typewriter console, two 30
CPS optical paper-tape readers, two really nice (re-branded CDC) 30 CPS
punches, 2816 main control unit, and 7816 arithmetic unit (with internal
fixed-head disk - 9 words plus a buffer, 30 digits/sec transfer rate!)
- Abandoned to rust away in a garage: a Teletype KSR-33 with punch and
reader, of course, and a built-in modem with acoustic coupler, in perfect
condition
- Turned down - a complete HP-3000 system, with two Eagle 76936 512 MB
drives, 32 serial ports, 2617A 600 LPM printer, and a few 2640 and 2622
terminals
Did I mention that *everything* was in perfect working condition?
I'm going to go shoot myself now.
~~
Mark Moulding
16 Dec
16 Dec
5:25 p.m.
Mark wrote...
---------
Among the things that I have given away (to Goodwill, or possibly Salvation
Army) - all in running condition:
...[snip a list of equipment I'd *LOVE* to have]...
---------
I just put in an application for employment at Goodwill/Salvation army ;)
J
5:26 p.m.
On Dec 16, 2015, at 3:58 PM, <mark at
markesystems.com> <mark at markesystems.com> wrote:
I'm going to go shoot myself now.
At least nothing you?ve destroyed was the last example on earth.
I drove two RM03s cross-country without locking the heads, then destroyed a stack of rare
PDP-10 disk packs (including a RED pack and an ITS system pack) by trying to read them. I
failed to recognize the screeching metal-on-metal sound as bad and ruined one pack after
another, only realizing what I had done after they were all gone.
I then lost a TU45 and its formatter by failing to take it with me when I got kicked out
of my mother?s house. I left it behind with a set of maintenance manuals and schematics
for the IBM System/34, all of which were scrapped and/or dumped by my mother?s new
boyfriend.
No amount of penance and/or self-loathing will ever recover those bits, but I hate myself
and kick myself all the same.
6:02 p.m.
New subject: Decisions you regret
On 12/16/2015 4:58 PM,
mark at markesystems.com wrote:
Yep. Among the things that I have
given away (to Goodwill, or possibly
Salvation Army) - all in running
condition:
- A complete HP-1000 system: A600
processor with internal hard drive,
serial card + 8-port serial mux, all
floppies, all documentation, a 2631G
printer, 7912 13 MB disk drive, and
two 2624B terminals
....
I'm going to go shoot myself now.
~~
I'm curious, why were these given to
a Goodwill / Salvation Army of all
places? These places don't have the
first clue of what to do with items like
these.. and they tend to be overwhelmed
with stuff anyway. Not everything goes
out for sale.
- J.
7:41 p.m.
My Dad used to bring home bits of dead System/360 from work, my brother and I
would of course pull this stuff to bits 'just to see what was inside'.
Printer trains, SLT cards, a pile of SMS cards from his earlier workings with
IBM 650s, all sorts of bits of electronic and electromechanical items. Dad
turned a punched-card sorter chassis into a workshop bench, I recall it was
dark charcoal grey and had a pull-out bucket on the front, not sure if that was
for cards or chads.
One thing we had fun with was one of those 2260 delay line units recently
discussed here. Inside the box was a beautifully coiled length of Nichrome(?)
wire, zooiiinnggg that was out, played with by stretching and tapping on the wire,
and most likely thrown out.
I had a complete General Automation SPC-16 minicomputer in a 6' rack, ASR33,
two Documation card readers, disk packs with DBOS I think. This took up quite a
bit of room in my flat so I sold it off very very cheaply, practically gave it
away. Wish I had it now, of course. Along with my S-100 system, that went to the
same buyer, a uni student I recall.
Dad brought home a disposed-of 2741 I/O Selectric we were going to interface to our
F-8. Never got done so it sat in the cupboard for decades. It disappeared when my
folks moved interstate.
Recently I found the platen from it in their garden shed. It still has the terminal-
style knobs on the ends, like on the 1052 terminal but grey instead of blue. I'll
save that for the time I get around to looking at some form of Selectric I/O, or
at least as a keepsake of the stuff we had :)
Steve.
17 Dec
17 Dec
12:53 p.m.
New subject: Decisions you regret Was: Mystery IC: Allen Bradley
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:41 PM, <steven at malikoff.com> wrote:
My Dad used to bring home bits of dead System/360 from
work, my brother
and I
would of course pull this stuff to bits 'just to see what was inside'.
Printer trains, SLT cards, a pile of SMS cards from his earlier workings
with
IBM 650s, all sorts of bits of electronic and electromechanical items. Dad
turned a punched-card sorter chassis into a workshop bench, I recall it was
dark charcoal grey and had a pull-out bucket on the front, not sure if
that was
for cards or chads.
One thing we had fun with was one of those 2260 delay line units recently
discussed here. Inside the box was a beautifully coiled length of
Nichrome(?)
wire, zooiiinnggg that was out, played with by stretching and tapping on
the wire,
and most likely thrown out.
I had a complete General Automation SPC-16 minicomputer in a 6' rack,
ASR33,
two Documation card readers, disk packs with DBOS I think. This took up
quite a
bit of room in my flat so I sold it off very very cheaply, practically
gave it
away. Wish I had it now, of course. Along with my S-100 system, that went
to the
same buyer, a uni student I recall.
Dad brought home a disposed-of 2741 I/O Selectric we were going to
interface to our
F-8. Never got done so it sat in the cupboard for decades. It disappeared
when my
folks moved interstate.
Recently I found the platen from it in their garden shed. It still has the
terminal-
style knobs on the ends, like on the 1052 terminal but grey instead of
blue. I'll
save that for the time I get around to looking at some form of Selectric
I/O, or
at least as a keepsake of the stuff we had :)
Steve.
--
The word decision I have ever regret is back in 1993 I was living in Oregon
working in the lumber Industry but all the " TREE HUGGER's"
Were shutting down most of the lumber Co. So I got a job offer in OKC from
a friend who said " YOU HAVE TO GET INTO THE OIL INDUSTRY!!! and I left
behind my Mint Apple IIc with the original mini screen! That piece of
machinery IMO was on of the best Apple products of all time! I remember on
payday after I went and payed all my bills on "BILL DAY" as I called it I
used to go to the thrift store that was overflowing with old computer stuff
I have seen many of the older computer's that were mentioned here in the
newsgroup unfortunately at the time I had no clue what I was even looking
at in fact back then I just thought they were " PART OF A BROKEN TV OR SOME
OTHER PIECE OF ELECTRONIC TRASH lol Oh BOY I was so very wrong! So very
wrong! If I could have known then what I have learned from the great group
of people here in *cctalk at classiccmp.org <cctalk at classiccmp.org>* I would
be sitting on a gold mine! But it's just like my Adopted father said the
reason I said adopted is that my parents were late into there 50's when
they adopted me so anyway He told me one time he had an old model T ford he
said it broke down on him on a very bad day so he just pushed it off the
side of the road and walked off and just left it, Just think how much it
would be worth now fully restored. It's funny how we do that as younger
people. Shoot even some of my childhood toys like I have a Bobs Big-Boy
piggy bank thats worth quite a bit to BB-B collectors.
*Honda ATC 3wheeler's for
LIFE!!! Have
a blessed day!*
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