Minicomputer Storage Myths - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Jul 1997

Well I've done that too. Like with my Tandy Model4's, which I didn't know
anything about. But at least I knew it as all there.  The places I get my
stuff, never have anything like this. You find me one, and well, if I can
afford it, I'll have a stab. Be a good reason for me to learn unix.

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  From: PDP11 Hacker ..... &lt;ard(a)siva.bris.ac.uk&gt;
 To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
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  Subject: Re: Minicomputer Storage Myths
 Date: Tuesday, July 22, 1997 1:45 PM

 From:	MX%&quot;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&quot; 22-JUL-1997 17:57:36.60
 To:	MX%&quot;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&quot;
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 Subj:	Re: Minicomputer Storage Myths

 >Wanna here a crying shame!?  I only collect micros, simply because I'm not
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  >at all familiar with Unix, Vax, or any flavor
thereoff.  I have an 18X24
 >room in the basement of my house devoted to not just storing my collection,
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  >but having it setup and running.  If I knew more
about these machines, I'd
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  probably love
to have one.  
 That's no excuse! :-). When I got my first minicomputer I knew absolutely
 nothing about them (I'd never used a front panel, had only vague ideas on
 how a processor worked at gate level, etc). I suspect the rest is true
 of some other serious collectors on this list.

 Still, I sat down with the machine, and even more importantly the service
 manual, and I figured it out. It didn't take that long. And I didn't have
a
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  group of experts to turn to, either.

 -tony