20 Oct
2000
20 Oct
'00
8 p.m.
On 19 Oct 2000, Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com> wrote:
Where can I put all this stuff I found.
Almost as difficult question as "What is the meaning of life".
The answer just came to me: "To be the winner of the contest: He who
dies with the most 'puters wins."
My latest haul included over 100 machines of the same brand. I had to
rent a space at a local U-Store-It place. I must be crazy. More on
this haul later.
Mike
20 Oct
20 Oct
9:29 p.m.
New subject: volunteers requested (was Re: Beginner into Micros, etc.)
Mzthompson(a)aol.com wrote:
The answer just came to me: "To be the winner of
the contest: He who
dies with the most 'puters wins."
My latest haul included over 100 machines of the same brand. I had to
rent a space at a local U-Store-It place. I must be crazy. More on
this haul later.
You've got some catching up to do. My 4-bedroom condo, 2-car garage,
and several *thousand* square feet of rental space are filled up with
old computers, documentation, etc.
I'll be picking up another 90 sq. ft. or so of old computers tomorrow
morning (Saturday 21-Oct) in Newport Beach. I'm somewhat disapointed
that I wasn't able to get any local volunteers to help load it into the
truck. :-( Fortunately a local friend is willing to fly down and drive
back with me, but more help would be most appreciated. If anyone is
able to help, I'll buy them a meal and/or a few beers. I may not be
able to read email there, so to contact me, send a *short* email message
with your telephone number to eric-oct21(a)brouhaha.com, and it will show
up on my cell phone.
There is a loading dock, so this shouldn't involve huge amounts of
back-breaking labor.
Eric
10:02 p.m.
New subject: Collector Milestones (was:Re: volunteers requested)
Reading this, I am struck with the thought that a Classiccmper could be
considered fairly well 'mature' in the hobby when he/she begins to refer
to collectable items in terms of *area*.
Eric wrote:
"I'll be picking up another 90 sq. ft or so of old computers...."
Some of us just got it bad....
Cheers
John
10:35 p.m.
New subject: Collector Milestones (was:Re: volunteers requested)
Knowing Eric, I think it should be measured in *tons* ... -Mike C
p.s. "mature"? Next level of insanity? ;-)
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, John Lawson wrote:
Reading this, I am struck with the thought that a Classiccmper could be
considered fairly well 'mature' in the hobby when he/she begins to refer
to collectable items in terms of *area*.
Eric wrote:
"I'll be picking up another 90 sq. ft or so of old computers...."
Some of us just got it bad....
Cheers
John
21 Oct
21 Oct
3:58 a.m.
New subject: volunteers requested (was Re: Beginner into Micros, etc.)
I wrote:
I'll be picking up another 90 sq. ft. or so of old
computers tomorrow
morning
That was a typo. It's 90 sq. ft. of old computer.
^ (singular)
Or, looking at it another way, it's 36 sq. ft. of old computer, and
54 sq. ft. of peripherals for it (six disk drives and two tape drives).
However, I'm getting rid of 70 sq. ft. of other, substantially less
interesting disk drives to make room for it.
11:10 a.m.
New subject: volunteers requested (was Re: Beginner into Micros, etc.)
Eric Smith wrote:
You've got some catching up to do. My 4-bedroom
condo, 2-car garage,
and several *thousand* square feet of rental space are filled up with
old computers, documentation, etc.
Jerome Fine replies:
I am focused exclusively on old PDP-11 Qbus, system, so I don't
get as much volume here in Toronto - thankfully or I would have had
to choose between a 40 year old computer or a 40 year old marriage.
As it is, even with just the DEC stuff, it hovers between the last two
choices.
I'll be picking up another 90 sq. ft. or so of old
computers tomorrow
morning (Saturday 21-Oct) in Newport Beach. I'm somewhat disapointed
that I wasn't able to get any local volunteers to help load it into the
truck. :-( Fortunately a local friend is willing to fly down and drive
back with me, but more help would be most appreciated. If anyone is
able to help, I'll buy them a meal and/or a few beers. I may not be
able to read email there, so to contact me, send a *short* email message
with your telephone number to eric-oct21(a)brouhaha.com, and it will show
up on my cell phone.
I guess I pay too much attention to details, but which single computer is it
you are going to pick up. Sorry I can't help from Toronto, but the air
fare is just a bit too much to LA. Mind you, I once went to visit my
son in Calgary and ended up with the insides of a BA23 box - I found
I could not fit the BA23 into any suitcase I had and even the power
supply was not a cost effective/weight effective/volume effective choice
relative to having 3 as spares already back in Toronto. The insides
even included a ST8760E and controller - not much of a find 4 years
ago, but satisfying since my first large hard drive of 600 MBytes was
6 times the price for the same drive about 10 years ago at a sell off.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
22 Oct
22 Oct
1:11 a.m.
New subject: volunteers requested (was Re: Beginner into Micros, etc.)
Jerome asks:
I guess I pay too much attention to details, but which
single computer is it
you are going to pick up.
A PDP-10 (KL10) system.
Sorry I can't help from Toronto, but the air
fare is just a bit too much to LA.
That's OK, thanks anyhow. Fortunately the loading and the road trip
back to Silly Valley went fine. The majority of the time spent on-site
was deinstalling the CPU, three cabinets about 48 inches wide by 30 inches
deep by 60 inches tall, all bolted together. Although I'm sure DEC
must have shipped the three CPU cabinets separately, it is not designed
to be easy to assemble or disassemble. There are many cables that pass
between the cabinets (through the sides), and some of them can't easily
be disconnected at *either* end.
8:50 a.m.
New subject: volunteers requested (was Re: Beginner into Micros, etc.)
That's OK, thanks anyhow. Fortunately the loading
and the road trip
back to Silly Valley went fine. The majority of the time spent on-site
was deinstalling the CPU, three cabinets about 48 inches wide by 30 inches
deep by 60 inches tall, all bolted together. Although I'm sure DEC
must have shipped the three CPU cabinets separately, it is not designed
to be easy to assemble or disassemble. There are many cables that pass
between the cabinets (through the sides), and some of them can't easily
be disconnected at *either* end.
The CPU for our 20 (either a 2040 or 2050, it's been too long) came in three
separate cabinets. I remember mainly because when the truck making the
delivery from DEC was backing down the ramp to the loading dock at the
Computer Center, the driver tapped on his brakes about half-way down and
lost a tape drive out of the back of the truck. Unfortunatly he didn't know
anything was wrong and kept on backing down the ramp, much to the
consertnation of our operations manager.
Lee Courtney
21 Oct
21 Oct
8:54 a.m.
Hello Mzthompson(a)aol.com
On 20-Oct-00, you wrote:
Regards
--
Gary Hildebrand
Box 7
West Branch, IA 52358
319-643-5952 x30
or
garyhildebrand(a)kwkb.com
On 19 Oct 2000, Mike Ford
<mikeford(a)socal.rr.com> wrote:
You very well might be crazy. Not many others have that many computers on
hand, except maybe Best Buy, or Office Depot.
Remember, your addiction could be cars, or ships too, so count your
blessings --- all 100 of them.
Where can I put all this stuff I found.
Almost as difficult question as "What is the meaning of life".
The answer just came to me: "To be the winner of the contest: He who
dies with the most 'puters wins."
My latest haul included over 100 machines of the same brand. I had to
rent a space at a local U-Store-It place. I must be crazy. More on
this haul later.
Mike 
7:32 a.m.
Gary,
As someone who has done cars, I'll be the first to admit that
these computers certainly take up a lot less room, at least for the
micros!
Jeff
Remember, your addiction could be cars, or ships too,
so count your
blessings --- all 100 of them.
Regards
--
Gary Hildebrand
Box 7
West Branch, IA 52358
319-643-5952 x30
or
garyhildebrand(a)kwkb.com
--
Power Computing PowerCurve, 400mhz G3, Mac OS 9.0.4
Collector of Classic Microcomputers and Video Game Systems:
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