Bendix G-15 and Control Data 160 console on ebay

[Mark Linimon]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 08:52:51AM +0000, Ed Groenenberg via cctalk wrote:
> It can be debated of the price for the Bendix is high or not, but it
> is truly a nice and rare machine. And by the looks of it, it seems to
> be complete too.

This was the machine I learned to program on.  (What was then Humble
Oil & Refining donated it to my high school.  I was the only student
curious enough to work on it.)

I still have one of each of the vaccum tube plugin cards.

Oh, and a copy of the technical manual with the FE's notes :-)

The last time I tried to gather together information about it (see
URL below), there were four still known.  Even as late at 20 years
ago there had been others, at McGill University in Canada, and one
in Australia:

  http://obscurecomputers.org/g15/index.html

> Not sure tough if the rack on the right belongs to it.

I'm not either.  I have never seen that before.

> I hope it ends up in a proper museum and hopefully it can be displayed
> in running condition.

I hope so too.  I'm not at the stage of my life where I could take on
this task.  But I would be glad to assist anyone actually working on one.

mcl