A computer collection in Italy

Dave Wade dave.g4ugm at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 09:38:44 CDT 2016


I wish I had such an inventory of my collection....

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> On 04/05/2016 04:31 PM, Christian Corti wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Apr 2016, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> >> http://www.retrocomputing.net/
> >>
> >> Looks like he has both an 11/780 (though it looks to be in pieces)
> >> and a 390.
> >>
> >> Impressive collection.
> >
> > ... that get's much smaller if you omit all those entries for flat
> > band cables, connectors, heat sinks, power supplies ... The only place
> > with a similar approach is ISER, a catalog of any single atom they
> > have in their collection ;-) Impressive list, but absolutely useless
> > IMO (e.g. entries like "cable, length 1m, purpose unknown, color
> > black")
> >
> > Christian
> 
> Size doesn't matter. I'm more impressed by the fact that he has an
inventory,
> _with_ photos. I'm also impressed by the diversity and some rare items.
> 
> Perhaps I'm just young and impressionable :-)
> 
> /P



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