13 Jan
2005
13 Jan
'05
4:51 p.m.
G'day Latent "Nova-heads" -
A "distress rescue situation" exists for a Nova 4/X system , dual 9-track
tape drives, top-loader disk drive in a 3-bay rack, in Bakersfield, CA. I
was told by a representative of the owner of this system that it will be
trashed or "donated to a local charity" by
Saturday.
Please contact me off-list for more details if you can help save this nice
system.
Bruce
Bruce Ray
Wild Hare Computer Systems, Inc.
bkr(a)WildHareComputers.com
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14 Jan
14 Jan
5:04 a.m.
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Bruce Ray wrote:
G'day Latent "Nova-heads" -
A "distress rescue situation" exists for a Nova 4/X system , dual 9-track
tape drives, top-loader disk drive in a 3-bay rack, in Bakersfield, CA. I
was told by a representative of the owner of this system that it will be
trashed or "donated to a local charity" by
Saturday.
Please contact me off-list for more details if you can help save this nice
system.
That's going to be difficult. Bakersfield is centrally located smack dab
in the middle of southern and northern California, bisected by I5, but
it's still effectively the middle of nowhere. Even if you were able to
make it up or down there, you wouldn't want to go. It's like a gulag.
Ok, it's not that bad, but no one goes to Bakersfield unless forced by
some reason.
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11:19 a.m.
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Well, let's put it this way: I've probably spent more time there than
anyone on this list at least, and most of that time was in the county
jail ;)
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Ok, it's not that bad, but no one goes to
Bakersfield unless forced by
some reason.
That's not nice! :-)
True though. 
12:52 p.m.
On Friday 14 January 2005 17:19, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
and most of that time was in the county
jail ;)
Now THIS needs to be explained. :)
Pat
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15 Jan
15 Jan
6:28 a.m.
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Friday 14 January 2005 17:19, Vintage Computer
Festival wrote:
My old job was developing automated collect call systems for the
prison/jail industry. Not quite as evil as the Military-Industrial
Complex but I might still be paying off the bad karma acquired through
that.
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and most of that time was in the county
jail ;)
Now THIS needs to be explained. :) 
14 Jan
14 Jan
1:15 p.m.
Ok, it's not that bad, but no one goes to
Bakersfield unless forced by
some reason.
That's not nice! :-)
True though.
1:24 p.m.
That's going to be difficult. Bakersfield is
centrally located smack dab
in the middle of southern and northern California, bisected by I5, but
I thought it was CA 99 (old US 99) that went through Bakersfield.
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15 Jan
15 Jan
6:32 a.m.
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
You're right. I-5 is to the west of Bakersfield but the town (now a city
I guess) has grown such that it now almost touches I-5.
I should say that Bakersfield is not THAT bad anymore. There are parts of
it that are kind of quaint (in a positive sense) these days (especially
the older parts of town).
And it has certainly grown up. Bakersfield used to be this far off place
that my dad would take us to do pheasant hunting. Now it's a good place
to stop off for a few minutes to grab some grub on the way to LA, and it's
got a few thrift shops where I've pulled some neat stuff out of over the
years.
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That's
going to be difficult. Bakersfield is centrally located smack dab
in the middle of southern and northern California, bisected by I5, but
I thought it was CA 99 (old US 99) that went through Bakersfield.
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