Quick survey on equipment - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Apr 2007

No CP/M machines, though I think I saw a Z80 softcard in a box of old  
Apple ][ cards I have lying about, though
I know nothing about CP/M as I came from mainframes, minis and  
military computers directly to Apple.

Two ICT 1301 Mainframes, one operational, the other dismantled but  
complete, offered to UK Science Museum
but their new boss has ordered them to stop collecting big computers.  
The first one was offered several years
ago (via the Computer Conservation Society) to Bletchley museum but  
they had no space for it. Since then
I have restored it to an operational state and am now working on  
getting the peripherals working so that I
can read the software and get it onto modern media. Then will work on  
the rest of the peripherals such as
the line printer and online card punch. Manufactured in 1962,  
acquired late 1970s. Price new about a
quarter of a million pounds each. Need 700 square feet floor space  
each, weigh 5 tons each, consume
13kVA three phase (440V).

UK101 single board computer (8k static RAM, mono video output,  
keyboard, casette tape storage)

Two or three Apple ][ europlus. 48K, twin floppy drives, dozens of  
cards, hopefully including a Microspot
serial/parallel card (AKA MicroPeripherals Zappler) which I designed.

An Apple /// (probably non operational), maybe two plus a Profile  
hard drive.

An operational Macintosh XL (AKA Lisa 2), plus one which has not been  
powered up in 5-10 years.

Odd Macintoshes, can't remember what, we had a chuck out a while ago  
and I'm not sure what is left.

A Titanium Powerbook, so once a year I can run Civilisation 2 and a  
few other games, which won't work on Intel Macs.

Work machine: MacBook Pro, 2 GHz Intel Core Duo.

Roger Holmes

Also collect classic cars and hoard all sorts of interesting junk  
because its easier than selling it (e.g. never sold a car).