Terry, I KNOW we are cousins somehow... On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 2:51 PM Mac Doktor <themacdok...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Apr 20, 2021, at 1:08 PM, Nick Andrews <nickjandr...@gmail.com> 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 <artgod...@gmail.com> 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/85734772-1A51-4512-84A6-C537FA5D947E%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/85734772-1A51-4512-84A6-C537FA5D947E%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAJD4P-jUd-dGyW2eDBGfXg6LYxYQxhV85a5qnwpf1L2TRX2C2w%40mail.gmail.com.
