Bob Davis and old computer stuff
Mike Loewen
mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Sat Apr 25 17:36:33 CDT 2020
Unfortunately, those blurry cell phone pictures are almost useless. I did
spot what appears to be an M-class HP 21MX system in DSC_0249.JPG. Someone
should rescue that one.
On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> Ok, I've uploaded pictures to https://www.crystel.com/bob/
>
> There are a bunch of 8 inch floppies and old hard disks down there.
>
> We have to move fast though, this needs to be cleaned out. How can people
> help me on this?
>
> C
>
>
> On 4/25/2020 6:12 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
>> 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 <mailto: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
>>
>
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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