Philip Stortz wrote:
> they should be, if they aren't now they will be in another 10 years, the
> saddest thing i ever did was selling my old, old hp programmable
> calculator, and it's plotter! weighed more than a selectric but it was
> beautiful inside!
That's what they showed on that History Channel show, the HP calculator (about
the size of a typewriter). They said Hewlett asked them to make a calculator
that would fit inside a shirt pocket, & 10 months later..they delivered.
They even talked to HP research, & were showing them the next technology --
turning molecules "on & off". I think this might be the new quantum computers.
Trillions of "switches" per square cm. They showed some "image" of deposited
wire, which showed "molecular bumps" along side of it.
>
>
> B Yen wrote:
> > ----------
> > I have a PDP-11 Dectape drive (rackmountable), huge thing. Is this worth
> > anything? I was just watching a show on the history of computing (History
> > Channel), & they were in a museum (Intel Corp, Hewlett Packard) that had
> > all this ancient hardware going back to the 60's. The Dectape should be in
> > there, not tossed in the garbage.
> >
> > I also have 2 brand new DEC VR17 (vectorscope). They used to have an
> > "asteroids" video game (on a PDP11!), this was back in the 70's. Same
> > thing as above, it ought to be in a museum, not sent to a recycling center
> > to be destroyed.
> >
> > I have a couple Altos Z80 based machines (integral Shugart 8" floppies, 2
> > of them), are they worth anything? I assume Altos was an offshoot of the
> > Xerox PARC Alto system (which inspired the Apple GUI).
> >
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