> On Apr 20, 2021, at 1:08 PM, Nick Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > > Standing by for Adrian's "free to a loving home" listing of surplus cool > stuff...
I have a tiny black hole in my basement that constantly needs filling. So far it has resisted almost all attempts to remove a few Plank constants. > On Apr 20, 2021, at 3:13 PM, Adrian Godwin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hah. You have to have very specialised interests. I often think nobody will > know what do with my stuff but I just offered a old HP floppy/hard drive > (that I'd been sitting on long after the HP85 computer had gone) to the > VintHP group and I was amazed to find they nearly bit my arm off for it. I have a large analog plotter that goes with an old HP "calculator". Unlike most of my collection I'd be willing to part with for a reasonable sum of money. I've never gotten around to putting it on eBay because I don't know what constitutes "reasonable". For all practical purposes it's literally a museum piece just like the calculator. I'm open to offers or at least appraisals. I can't just give it away to a non-profit organization because A. I don't pay taxes and can't use it as a tax deduction; B. The quite large PC board is heavily gold-plated including the component leads. As scrap it's probably worth a tidy sum. C. It appears to be fully functional. The servos slew properly over the entire work area, the electrostatic paper "holder" works, and the pen goes up and down. Hamfest? Sidewalk? Hmm... Definitely hamfest freebie. It's that common as dirt HP plotter with a pen carousel that I picked up off the sidewalk. I'll let that one go cheap. Probably in working condition as the old computer and floppy disks were sitting there as well. Terry Bowman, KA4HJH "The Mac Doctor" https://www.astarcloseup.com/ “...the book said something astonishing, a very big thought. The stars, it said, were suns but very far away. The Sun was a star but close up.”—Carl Sagan, "The Backbone Of Night", Cosmos, 1980 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/85734772-1A51-4512-84A6-C537FA5D947E%40gmail.com.
