14 Feb
14 Feb
7:27 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
Nice!
I know Gerry. He was one of the founders of Software Results
Corporation, makers of COMBOARDs (that I post about from time to
time). He departed before I worked there, so we never worked
together, but we did cross paths in IT in Columbus every few years.
-ethan
9:35 p.m.
On Feb 14, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
WOW! I hadn't realized they were still running the systems as late as last year. I
don't watch video's like this, but this one I had to watch, and it's seriously
cool!
Zane
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10:41 p.m.
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Zane Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
On Feb 14, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
WOW! I hadn't realized they were still running the systems as late as last year. I
I knew they were running them recently, but I had thought they shut
most of that stuff down a few years ago when AOL departed the old
CompuServe headquarters on Arlington Drive (perhaps these units were
from the "new" CompuServe headquarters in
Hilliard that became a
WorldCom property. I will ask around).
At 07:45 in the video, when Gerry is talking about the MicroNode, you
can see two Qbus cards on top. The card on the left (the one he
doesn't pick up) looks like one of those Qbus 486 CPU cards I was
mentioning a few weeks ago. I have an empty Node box - but it's just
three independent 9-slot Q22-CD backplanes so it's easy to populate
with DEC cards. One of these days I want to get it running three
different PDP-11 operating systems.
I'm glad he was able to save the equipment. I'm sure very few people
in town would have had the resources to do it on short notice let
alone the interest to try.
-ethan
11:48 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 06:12:58PM -0800, Al Kossow wrote:
Very cool! Nice to get some details on the SC-40.
Thrilling that they saved all nine!
I wonder how many there were in total.
/p
15 Feb
15 Feb
8:02 a.m.
One of my other hobbies is collecting military radio communications gear, so I was happy
to spot a T-368 transmitter "lurking" in the background of the video, to the
extent that a 750 pound transmitter can lurk.
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16 Feb
16 Feb
12:23 p.m.
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014, Mark J. Blair wrote:
One of my other hobbies is collecting military radio
communications
gear, so I was happy to spot a T-368 transmitter "lurking" in the
background of the video, to the extent that a 750 pound transmitter can
lurk.
750 pound tranmitters don't lurk, they /loom/. :)
g.
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18 Feb
18 Feb
4:31 p.m.
One of my other hobbies is collecting military radio
communications gear, so I was happy to spot a T-368 transmitter "lurking" in the
background of the video, to the extent that a 750 pound transmitter can lurk.
I noticed that as well.
Way cooler than the SC40s (and T-368s are still in service, unlike the SC40s).
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