Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:39:39 +1200
Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) wrote:
If anyone knows where to get an IBM PC, I would be very interested
for our museum (at the University) Seems we missed out when getting
started as most people have thrown them away
I think I have an XT or AT in storage, but I think that was a little
later. I got it from a friend a few years ago for the 5 1/2 inch floppy
drive which i needed in order to access one or two disks of a very old
software product. You are welcome to it anyway.
We have the AT (which was the 286)... It was the XT (I think)
the Vintage site doesn't have that designation but it IS the
8088 processor in an IBM case that we are looking for...
The other "high on MY list" was a DEC Vax 11/750 (Which was our second
big computer and our main Unix machine in the 80's ) but I think
they are all scrapped now :-( They take up more space than a PC
so I suspect they have all been sent to the scrapyard - If anyone can
get us a free main cabinet... It would go with our first Unix
machine -- Data General Eclipse :-)
Would you like a sinclair spectrum for your museum?
I believe we have one (Michael says that and he did the
list of what was in the museum)...
Vintage doesn't have the spectrum on their site so not sure..
we do have the zx81.. Currently we have some of the
machines on display but most of them had to be moved into
storage because of University space policies. (go figure :-( )
If it is small we should look at getting it
(rather than you throwing it out)
http://www.vintage-computer.com/ibmpcat.shtml
Pete
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