New subject: WTB/T: Conner hard drives

22 Jun 1998

...
 > Well, let me modify that slightly.  It's only
disgusting in that it's
> going to be preventing people like the folks here on classiccmp from
> getting their hands on systems and taking proper care of them.  Sure, 
...
  Yes, I agree 100%. As an example, one of the machines
I would like is an 
 Apple Lisa. Not because it's collectable, but because I'd like to compare 
 Apple's extension of the work at Xerox PARC with the PERQ and with a 
 Xerox D-machine. In other words I want to strip a Lisa down, hook a logic 
 analyser up to it, and hack it to hell and back. In then end I'd still 
 have a working Lisa, and I'd have a stack of notes as to what really goes 
 on inside one. 
...
  But there's no way I can afford a Lisa at the
current collector's prices. 
 So, alas, there's a gap in the collection :-( 
So, would you trade an Imsai 8080 for a Lisa 2?

...
 > we all collect computers for the sake of
collecting, but most of us
> really enjoy keeping them running and taking care of them, and can 
...
  Yes, I wonder how many of these 'collectable'
computers are in any sense 
 being preserved properly. I would doubt if ROMs were ever backed up or 
 PSUs tested. Heck, distribution disks are probably not backed up even. 
 I'll admit I sometimes damage the fabric of a classic, but I'm a lot more 
 careful than that. 
Full working, in dayly use (ok, at least once a week.

...
 > Lucky for me, the computers I really love the most
are the ones NOT
> found on Ebay.  I've never seen a PDP8 or a PDP11 on Ebay, for instance. 
...
  Ditto, actually. I don't want an Altair,
amazingly. Well, if somebody was
 throwing one out I'd save it, but it's not a machine I'm looking for. In 
 fact, as I mentioned here once before, when 10 year ago I was offered the 
 choice between an Altair and an Intellec MCS8i, I grabbed the latter. 
deal !

Gruss
H.

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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK

IMSAI 8080