Bob Davis and old computer stuff

[Josh Dersch]

I've recently been working on archiving a huge pile of PERQ floppies.  I'd
be more than happy to help archive any media, including the scanning of
documentation.  I know that Bob had an extensive collection, and some of
this is likely to be the only copies of such media left in existence.

Also, it would be great to get images of the hard drives in those PERQs.  I
can assist with that as well.

- Josh


On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 3:04 PM Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> Well I'm the one who was his friend for many years and when he died I
> kept in touch with his mom. She's clearing out the house and I went over
> today to tag and review some stuff.
>
> There appear to be at least two Perqs, several boxes of floppies, junk
> all over the place, a couple of Sun VMEs, what might be part of a Sun
> 3/50, big weird boards, at least 3 pdp11 q bus boxes, and the like. I
> tagged the Perqs, brought home some boxes of floppies and said I would
> see if anyone would help.
>
> She really misses him and would like his stuff to go somewhere that
> people will care about it and remember him. He was a good egg, and his
> death was a very tragic accident.
>
> I took some pictures, but what of his stuff is important and what is
> not? Who is willing to help me get this stuff somewhere where people can
> care about it?
>
> C
>