We have a strange one still cranking here at work. An S-100 bus multi-processor system with CPU & memory cards from a place called Teletek. Runs something called Turbo Dos. Looks sort of like CP/M hacked to channel I/O from the multi-processors through one master cpu & disk controller (with an ST-225, hoo boy. got a box of them too!) and some primitive file privledges. Anyone else encountered such a beast? -Wayne Cox

A few people have asked what's the deal? Didn't I retire from collecting antique computers? Well, I did part with some Tandy and Commodore equipment. Had some offers for some other equipment. There was one piece of equipment I got paid for and only just got around to sending out (variety of reasons, not JUST laziness). But some of my ham buddies got me involved in some packet radio projects. So that got me back into the mindset of electronic equipment. So, my wife catches me out in the garage one day sitting on a folding chair staring at the PDP-8is (it's an environmentally controlled garage attached to the house so don't worry) and the 11/84 and the 11/34. She asks me, "How are you going to get them downstairs?" and without thinking I say, "I'm not sure...I think I'll have to disassemble them and have you help me take them down in pieces." She knows me pretty well. So I guess I'm unretired. Sometimes everyone needs a break to get some perspective or something. My new job isn't NEARLY as time-consuming of my personal time and the business I started requires only 15 hours per month. On other, more relevant notes, I saw an AT&T 3B2/400 with full manuals and disks at PHDARA (Kansas City Hamfest) a couple weeks back for $40. But I'd already spent my alottment of cash on a 2 meter rig and associated hardware I required. I was going to get the guys number but someone finally bought it. :-/ My boss used, until about a month ago, an Apple IIgs for his accounting system. He said it was more powerful, flexiable and reliable than any of the various PC or Mac accounting software he'd tried. It's still running but the book-keeper is doing double entry into the old system and the new system (SickBooks...er...QuickSand...er...Quickbooks! =) At any rate, he has PILES of Apple II stuff in his backroom that he said he'd give me as I demonstrated SOME use for it. He's also going to give me some sort of HP LaserJet (4P perhaps?) that he says just gives an error and won't even try to print anything. Interesting... =-) Tomorrow I'm going to the hamfest where I almost ALWAYS go home with interesting old antique computer bits and pieces. 3 or 4 years ago it was S-100 boards, last year it was 8" diskettes (lots of them some new). At any rate, I've been able to clean out my basement and make space for the PDPs down here and have had an opportunity to install 10baseT EVERYWHERE. This is one wired-up house! Anthony Clifton, KC0CUE