Burroughs L-series paper tapes

[Tom Hunter]

What happened to Sellam's machines?
Why are they "likely lost"?
Is this another sad LCM like story?

Thanks
Tom Hunter

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 4:10 AM Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> On 8/4/20 11:14 AM, Alan Frisbie via cctalk wrote:
> > Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 8/3/20 7:25 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
> >>
> >>> And what about your L9000 (or was it an 8000?) ? Did it also go to the
> LCM?
> >>>
> >>> Not many left, alas...
> >>
> >> we have an L-9000
> >> https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X1742.2001
> > Here is another one:
> >
> > In 2006, Nelson Nameplate Company (now Nelson-Miller) gave their
> > L9000 to Sellam Ismail at Vintagetech.com.  He already had an
> > L7000 and was anxious to add the L9000 to his collection.
>
> Sellam's machines are likely lost.
> He's on here, maybe he knows.
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