What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

[Bill Gunshannon]

I've gotten rid of a lot of wierd stuff in the past.

BUt toiday, I still have some QBUS M68K boards.  And I still have Terak boards (should
qualify as rare I imagine) no Terak boxes but they work OK in any QBUS backplane.

I'm sure if I thought about it there is more.

bill
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Subject: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

Here is what comes to mind, it may not qualify as a computer. A
Westinghouse Numa-Logic PC700. It is an early PLC. uses a Sinetics 8X300
bit slice. Unfortunately Westinghouse only started to invest in PLCs about
the time the they merged with CBS and in a few years
all of Westinghouse became history.

BTW Looking for parts, manuals, software, the "lug-able" CRT based
programmer, IDE PC interface etc. etc.

Also will get my Allen Bradly PLC with core memory running someday.

-pete

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Rick Bensene <rickb at bensene.com> wrote:

>
> A selection of some of my more unusual computer-related stuff:
>
> - A Tektronix 4132 Unix workstation  using a National 32016 CPU and a
> 4.2bsd port called UTek
>
> - A Digital Equipment PDP 8/e system with 2 RK05 drives, high speed paper
> tape reader/punch, RX01 Dual 8" floppy drives, 16K of DEC core
> memory(commonly runs with a 32K NVRAM board), 2 serial ports, EAE, RTC,
> Memory Extension/Timeshare board, Diode boot board (RK05 boot)
>
> - Wang 300-series calculator field service parts kit (two wooden
> briefcases)
>
> - Friden 6010 Computyper Diagnostic Console
>
> - Friden Electronics Training Course manuals (1960s)
>
> - Wyle Laboratories WS-02 punched card programmable electronic calculator
> (1964)
>
> - Busicom 207 punched card programmable electronic calculator
>
> - Altair 8800 with Altair dual 8" disk drives
>
> - IMSAI 8080 kit built in high school as a school project in 1976/1977
>
> - Televideo Personal Terminal
>
> - GE transistorised current loop acoustic coupler modem (110 baud)
>
> - Hewlett Packard 9100A and 9100B programmable electronic calculators
>
> - Tektronix mini-Board Bucket computer and many boards for it (EPROM
> Blaster, TI TMS9918-Based Video Board w/RTC, SASI Interface, 6809 CPU, 6809
> ICE CPU. 32K Static and 64K Dynamic RAM Boards, 300-Baud Modem Board, 5
> 1/4" Floppy Controller
>
> - SWTPC TV Typewriter
>
> - A large format (4'x5') Summagraphics digitizing tablet with GPIB
> interface
>
> - A Tektronix 4052 desktop computer (bit-slice implementation of Motorola
> 6800 CPU) with very rare RAM Disk module installed under keyboard
>
> - Wang Laboratories dual-cassette drive for 700 series calculator
>
> - An old fluorescent-lighted, two sided sign advertising Denon electronic
> calculators
>
> - Some original Digital Equipment System Modules (Used by DEC for making
> some of their early computers)
>
> ---
> Rick Bensene
> The Old Calculator Museum
> http://oldcalculatormuseum.com
>
>
>