I went to that Nortex Electronics sale in Ft. Worth Texas this weekend, and
while the vast majority of items in 3 large buildings was test and a/v
equipment and parts, along with a lot of junk, I was able to ferret out a
few interesting computer-related items stashed in corners. There was
probably more there, but a lot was packed, stacked and inaccessible
(including a couple of VAX cabinets that looked semi-parted out at a
distance), and I ran out of time. Almost everything is in nice, average
used condition, very presentable considering the age of some of the
documents:
Manuals
- Teletype manuals in original blue/gray binders with cover sheets
-- Parts/Model 28 Compact KSR And RO/Bulletin 1197B/July 1964 (original)
-- Parts/Model 28 Page Printer Set (KSR &RO)/Bulletin 1149B/June 1965
(change 13)
-- Description and Principles of Operation/Model 28 KSR and RO/Bulletin
216B/Feb 1964, change 4 - May 1971
-- Maintenance Tools/Bulletin 1124B/Feb 1962 (change 3)
-- Technical Manual/High Speed Tape Punch Set (BRPE)/Bulletin 215B/March
1963 (change 4)
-- Parts/Model 37 Page Printer Set (KSR-RO)/Bulletin 1209B/June 1970
(change 3)
-- Technical Manual/Motor Units (MU, LMU, YMU)/Bulletin 295B/(2
versions) Jan 1967 (change 1), Feb 1973 (change 4)
-- Parts/Paper Winders (LPW, PW)/Bulletin 1129B/(4 versions) Nov 1959,
Mar 1966, May 1970, Dec 1970
-- Parts/33 Page Printer Set (ASR, KSR and RO)/Bulletin 1184B/Dec 1970,
change 13 - Feb 1971
-- Technical Manual/33 Teletypewriter Sets (RO, KSR, ASR)/Bulletin 310B
Vol 1/June 1969 (original)
-- Technical Manual/33 Teletypewriter Sets (RO, KSR, ASR)/Bulletin 310B
Vol 2/March 1971 (change 2)
-- Technical Manual/32 and 33 Teletypewriter Sets (KSR, RO,
ASR)/Bulletin 273B/Nov 1964 (change 4)
- Large blue Honeywell binder with Teletype information, including several
change order sheets and custom modification descriptions, along with both of
the Model 33 technical manual volumes dated 1974, and the parts manual dated
1973.
- Large black generic binder with several Model 32/33 manuals without cover
sheets dated 1964 ? 1967
- FAA Manual 6170.6/Maintenance of Teletypewriter Terminal Equipment/June
16, 1973
- Digital VT125 User Guide/1st Edition Sept 1981
- Remex Technical Manual, Perforator System and Tape Reader/Perforator
System, Models RPS612XBA, RPF612XBA/1975
- Tandon Operating and Service Manual, TM100 Disk Drives/1981
- DEC PDT-11/150 User Guide/1st edition, Feb 1979 (copy)
- TI Silent 700 Model 742 Operating Instructions with Supplement/1 June 1975
- Visual 200 Video Display Terminal Reference Manual/March 1980
- TI Model 980A Computer Maintence Manual/Electrical Drawings Vol VII/15 Feb
1973 (in light blue TI plastic binder)
- Pro-Log Brochure/Series 90 PROM Programmer featuring the M980 Control
Unit/May 1981
- Pro-Log Series 90 PROM Programmer Operating Manual/Oct 1975
- Heathkit Manual/Microprocessor Trainer Model ET-3400/1977 (with 2 change
pages)
- Friden Service Operation & Adjustment Manual (Motorized Reader and Punch,
Regeneration, Comparator, Regen Comparator)/Dec 13, 1962 (with schematic of
Add Punch Model APT dated Nov 14, 1957)
- intel MCS-85 Handbook (Preliminary)/Feb 1977
- intel 8080 Microcomputer System Manual/Jan 1975
- intel 8080 Microcomputer Systems User?s Manual/Sept 1975
- Light blue paper folder with intel logos, containing a few letters and
forms (Software Problem Report and Library Submittal Form) for the Intellec
8/MOD 8 and /MOD 80, a brochure for the imm8-90 High Speed Paper Tape
Reader, and two paper tapes: one labeled ?Intellec 8/MOD 8 Monitor Ver
3.0?, and another with the same wording except with additional ?Monitor
Installation Tape?. One of the letters in the folder describes the intended
use of the paper tapes.
- Generic black binder with more intel documentation:
-- Programming Manual for the 8080 Microcomputer System, Volumes 1 and
2, Preliminary Edition, May 1974
-- Intellec 8/Mod 80 Microcomputer Development System Reference
Manual/no date on front, copyright 1974 on back
-- 8080 Assembly Language Programming Manual/copyright 1974 on front
- Lockheed-California CADAM Training Manual, in original binder, March 1980
- SD Sales Z8800 CPU Card manual/no date
- Pacific Data Systems Brochure/An Introduction to the PDS 1020 Digital
Computer/with survey insert addressed to the Data Systems Branch Chief of
NASA/no date
- Pacific Data Systems/An Engineer?s Guide to the PDS 1020/April
1964/(copies of change pages replacing originals in spots)
- Pacific Data Systems/Machine Reference Handbook/April 1964
- Generic binder containing several copied Application Notes for the PDS
1020 from 1964 and 1965
- Generic binder containing a copy of summaries of software available for
the PDS 1020/Feb 1965
- Generic binder containing what looks like a printout of specific PDS 1020
software program descriptions, including flowcharts and assembly language
listings/no date
- SYMTEC PGSIII (graphics generator for Apple II) documentation, probably
incomplete, with copies of some floppies, no hardware
- Saturn Systems 64K/128K RAM board Operations Manual (for Apple II)/1982
- Apple ][e Owner?s Manual/1985
- Apple Monochrome Monitor IIe Owner?s Guide
Hardware
- DRC 16K EPROM S100 board, unused, no EPROMs installed, with copy of manual
- MITS 8K PROM S100 board, Rev 0-X2(J.D.), 1976, no EPROMs installed, with
copy of schematic
- small wire-wrapped, socketed board with about 20 TI TTL chips with date
codes mostly in 1970, connector has 31 fingers on a side, small handwritten
label says ?CNTRL (A5)?
- One Apple ][ computer, no boards
- Three Apple ][ Plus computers, no boards
- One Apple ][e computer with 3 boards, including 1 double board of unknown
use showing the name ?Collins? with 3 external cables: 25-pin(f), 37-pin(f)
and 37-pin(m) - any ideas what this is?
- Radio Shack TRS-80 Printer Controller (PTC-64), still in the box
Books (mostly with markings showing originally from the LTV Computer Dept
Technical Library)
- Computer Organization and the System/370, Katzan, 1971
- System/370 Job Control Language, Brown, 1977
- Computer Graphics, Gruenberger, 1967
- The Transition to On-Line Computing, Gruenberger, 1967
- Digital Tape Drives, Taunt, 1965
- Information Processing for Management, BEMA, 1969
- The Computer and the Executive, Kanter, 1967
- IBM Electronic Circuit Analysis Program Techniques and Applications,
Jensen and Lieberman, 1968
- PL/I Programming Primer, Weinberg, 1966
- VAX Architecture Reference Manual, DEC Books, 1987
- Honeywell Instrumentation Handbook, 2nd Edition, 1970, contains a couple
of pages on the DDP-516 and H316, with a picture of the ?Kitchen Computer?
although it?s not called that in this book
Magazines
- Popular Electronics
-- 1975: Aug, Nov (Altair 680 on cover), Dec
-- 1976: Jan, Feb (TV Dazzler on cover), Mar, Apr, Jun, Jul (SOL on
cover)
-- 1977: Mar
- Radio Electronics April 1970 (Penniac - $150 Game Computer on cover)
Software
- Lot of 8? floppies, about 5 unused boxes, also several used disks with
labels indicating some kind of IBM software (?EDX002?, ?ASMLIB?, others)
- Xerox 6060 Family floppies and manuals
Richard Lynch