20 Jun
2015
20 Jun
'15
11:13 a.m.
Thought this article from Infoworld would encourage all of us whose
goal is rescuing vintage computers from scrap heaps:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2937725/computer-hardware/6-historic-tech-…
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
20 Jun
20 Jun
11:57 a.m.
I have gotten some of my best stuff from the trash ... One day I will never
forget when I was doing my undergrad... the CS department had just gotten
their own building (previously EE/CS shared a building) and they were
cleaning house and moving out ... it was incredible; the gallery on each of
the four floors of the building had just a long row of wheelie bins... they
were each probably twice the size of your average shop garbage can ... and
they were just piled high with old workstations, peripherals, parts,
cables, software, books ... Long having lost my shame about garbage
digging, LOL, I got almost first crack at it ... once they saw me doing it,
the rest of the students realized that it was open season ... everyone went
home happy with armloads of stuff ... much celebration was had ... it was
great :O Fortunately the office where I was working part-time let me stash
some stuff while I digested it into loads that I could carry on the bus :O
Best,
Sean
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Lyle Bickley <lbickley at bickleywest.com>
wrote:
Thought this article from Infoworld would encourage
all of us whose
goal is rescuing vintage computers from scrap heaps:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2937725/computer-hardware/6-historic-tech-…
Lyle
--
Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
1:59 p.m.
I have gotten some of my best stuff from the trash ...
One day I will never
I suspect a lot of us have....
When I was at university I had official permision to skip-dive (dumpster dive). Got
all sorts of things. Pulled my HP2100A + 7900 drive + paper tape reader right out
of a skip. Nearly did my back in, but,,,
Another time I got a nice AR88LF communications receiver.
Then there was the time I saw a load of HP stuff... I grabbed the H1350 graphics
translator (lovely unit), etc. At the bottom was what looked to be an HP9825. Well,
I had one of those but I thought I could probably find a home for a second one. In
any case I'd grab the I/O modules from it, and see if it contained any ROMs in the
front ports. So out it came. When I looked at it I realised it wasn't a 9825 at all,
it was the (much, much, rarer) 9831 (running BASIC not HPL) So of course I grabbed
that.
But a lot of my finds came to me before they were thrown out. I was known for
wanting just about any old electronic or computer gear.
-tony
22 Jun
22 Jun
4:58 p.m.
One day my girlfriend came home and told me she'd seen some people dumping
what looked like circuit boards into a dumpster just a few blocks from our
apartment. We took a drive over and there are at least a dozen ADM-3/a
logic boards. Best yet: *all the chips were socketed*. And when I
acquired some complete 3/a's a few years later, I had the character
generator ROM for lower case! The girlfriend is long gone, but I'm sure
some of those chips are still in my TTL stash.
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 5:59 PM, tony duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
I have gotten some of my best stuff from the
trash ... One day I will
never
I suspect a lot of us have....
When I was at university I had official permision to skip-dive (dumpster
dive). Got
all sorts of things. Pulled my HP2100A + 7900 drive + paper tape reader
right out
of a skip. Nearly did my back in, but,,,
Another time I got a nice AR88LF communications receiver.
Then there was the time I saw a load of HP stuff... I grabbed the H1350
graphics
translator (lovely unit), etc. At the bottom was what looked to be an
HP9825. Well,
I had one of those but I thought I could probably find a home for a second
one. In
any case I'd grab the I/O modules from it, and see if it contained any
ROMs in the
front ports. So out it came. When I looked at it I realised it wasn't a
9825 at all,
it was the (much, much, rarer) 9831 (running BASIC not HPL) So of course I
grabbed
that.
But a lot of my finds came to me before they were thrown out. I was known
for
wanting just about any old electronic or computer gear.
-tony
5:25 p.m.
A few of us were standing about talking in the hallway between our radio museum and the
ham club, and I happened to notice a small module of PCBs in the trash bin. Unable to
resist finding out what it was (or more accurately: what it once had been) I reached in
and pulled it out.
Turned out it had a 4004 system on it, so turned it into this:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/4004Monument/index.html
The SWTPC 6800 I obtained a few years ago was, shall we say, diverted from going into the
trash.
On 2015-Jun-22, at 1:58 PM, Ian S. King wrote:
One day my girlfriend came home and told me she'd
seen some people dumping
what looked like circuit boards into a dumpster just a few blocks from our
apartment. We took a drive over and there are at least a dozen ADM-3/a
logic boards. Best yet: *all the chips were socketed*. And when I
acquired some complete 3/a's a few years later, I had the character
generator ROM for lower case! The girlfriend is long gone, but I'm sure
some of those chips are still in my TTL stash.
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 5:59 PM, tony duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
I have gotten some of my best stuff from the
trash ... One day I will
never
I suspect a lot of us have....
When I was at university I had official permision to skip-dive (dumpster
dive). Got
all sorts of things. Pulled my HP2100A + 7900 drive + paper tape reader
right out
of a skip. Nearly did my back in, but,,,
Another time I got a nice AR88LF communications receiver.
Then there was the time I saw a load of HP stuff... I grabbed the H1350
graphics
translator (lovely unit), etc. At the bottom was what looked to be an
HP9825. Well,
I had one of those but I thought I could probably find a home for a second
one. In
any case I'd grab the I/O modules from it, and see if it contained any
ROMs in the
front ports. So out it came. When I looked at it I realised it wasn't a
9825 at all,
it was the (much, much, rarer) 9831 (running BASIC not HPL) So of course I
grabbed
that.
But a lot of my finds came to me before they were thrown out. I was known
for
wanting just about any old electronic or computer gear.
-tony
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