Yes it needs to be saved... and yet with all the extra and duplicate
stuff CHM has I bet they do not have one of these yet shun it...
curious. kick their shins for me Al ok?
Unfortunately not close for me to pickup.
all this stuff is all part of the history....
Ed#
In a message dated 9/6/2016 6:11:35 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
aek at
bitsavers.org writes:
On 9/6/16 4:18 PM, Tom Gardner wrote:
A friend of mine died recently; he was amongst many
things an
electronics tinkerer and has a closet full of small parts in bin
cabinets (resistors,
capacitors, ICs, transistors, hardware, etc.).
There is also a Unicomp 18 bit minicomputer, paper tape reader, and FFT
processor circa 1972 in the garage (6ft rack)
with full documentation.
I walked out of the donations meeting with the other curators today who
thought it was a piece of s**t and didn't want
to take it, calling it a 'dumpster fire'
Art was a friend of mine.
Hopefully it can go someplace where it can be appreciated.
Talk to Tom about it, unfortunately, time is short.