Re: classics I threw away or sold ... foolishly

On 19/05/2016 15:25, Swift Griggs wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2016, Pete Turnbull wrote: - my first Exidy Sorcerer, with 48K, every ROM PAC and every manual I could buy, and a lot of mods, Those look really cool. I remember seeing them in computer mags when I was uhhh, 7 or 8 years old. Drooled.

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On Thu, 19 May 2016, Pete Lancashire wrote: > Took home a couple of the exterior panels, put one on top of the bar-b-q > and using a propane torch got it to burn, pure magnesium did what one > would expect. Being born and raised in Texas (and Alaska, too a bit) I have friends and family who

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Took home a couple of the exterior panels, put one on top of the bar-b-q and using a propane torch got it to burn, pure magnesium did what one would expect. Gave the other panel to a friend near Philly who was a rocket nut. On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:50 PM, jwsmobile wrote: > I

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> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Adrian > Graham > Sent: 19 May 2016 19:12 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: classics I threw away or sold ... f

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One thing I still get a pang of regret about was throwing away a working VT180 back in '97 or so. Work didn't want it and I just didn't have the room for it so in a skip it went. Countless VAX4000s also went skip-bound. I priced one of them up before it went, when it was new it cost £95k. That

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On 19/05/2016 18:07, "Ethan Dicks" wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Sean Caron wrote: >> ...I've never seen another microVAX I around... Ah, well, the KA655 is more >> functional ;) > > I have a MicroVAX I... it's more of a curiosity than

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On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Sean Caron wrote: > ...I've never seen another microVAX I around... Ah, well, the KA655 is more > functional ;) I have a MicroVAX I... it's more of a curiosity than anything. Quite limited. We bought two when they first came out and

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On Thu, 19 May 2016, Swift Griggs wrote: DEC microVAX III BA23 (w/ SCSI) DEC microVAX I BA23 I think thre is a DEC microVAX II still sitting powered down in a corner here at my office. I got lucky on the list maybe a year ago and Bob Rosenbloom helped me get my Q-bus VAX itch

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On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote: > > > That's a pretty good list. I agree with you on the Atari Lynx. I miss mine > as well...bought it brand new and ended up buying about 21 games for it for > dirt cheap when they started clearancing them off (most

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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Swift Griggs wrote: > > I've stack-ranked all the classic items that I, to my everlasting shame, > let go of at some point and now I feel like it was a mistake: > > 1. Amiga 2500. I ditched it thinking I'd pick up a 3000 then never did. >

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On Wed, 18 May 2016, N0body H0me wrote: > 1. Apple Quadra 840av. The sweetest Mac I've ever owned. >Sorely missed. LIkely stolen. Yes, this was the king daddy M68k classic-mac, IMHO. > 3. NCR Tower 1632. Ran an early SYSV, I had the install tapes >too. I wanted one of those. I saw

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On Thu, 19 May 2016, Pete Turnbull wrote: > - my first Exidy Sorcerer, with 48K, every ROM PAC and every manual I > could buy, and a lot of mods, Those look really cool. I remember seeing them in computer mags when I was uhhh, 7 or 8 years old. Drooled. > - an SGI Indy which I sold for little

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On Wed, 18 May 2016, Sean Caron wrote: > Ah, man. I lost a Q660AV myself and I do miss it. That said, I'm lucky > to still have my PM8500 (held together with epoxy, LOL) to salve the > wound a little ... I would have probably kept it if it was a 840AV. I liked that machine a bit more, but now

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I may have access to one. I do have the disk drive for sure. Actually on D-17, and a I think a spare set of boards. Not eyeballed it though. On 5/18/2016 3:32 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote: Brand new "NIB" Minuteman I D-17 computer section, the whole thing in a wooden crate. Even had the white

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> -Original Message- > From: swiftgri...@gmail.com > Sent: Wed, 18 May 2016 14:50:17 -0600 (MDT) > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: classics I threw away or sold ... foolishly > > > I've stack-ranked all the classic items that I, to my everlasting shame, > let go of at some point

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ctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of Eric Christopherson <echristopher...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 8:54 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: classics I threw away or sold ... foolishly On Wed, May 18, 2016, Swift Griggs wrot

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I'd love to get one of those (PXM9XX). I designed the video card and the active backplane. I had to route all the ECL data paths by hand as there were no automated tools for that at the time. That beast was built in an amazingly short period of time, about 8-9 months as I recall. The DSP32

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My regret list is quite long but at the top are: 1. Three Apple 1 computers including one in the box with all the extras and a personal letter from Steve Jobs telling what keyboard to use with it. 2. A working Bendix G-15 that was in my classroom in the early 1970's. 3. A working Burroughs B-3300

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AH yea.. the gold scrappers don't get me going Brand new "NIB" Minuteman I D-17 computer section, the whole thing in a wooden crate. Even had the white exterior panels, remember them each had "Warning Magnesium" stamped on the inside. Was around 1985. Offered $100 about 2 x scrap, he said

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>4. Sun Voyager. Friend who retired from Sun had a couple of them. Offered me one. *bash* *bash* *bash* At least I kept the prototype Sun 1 -pete On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Swift Griggs wrote: > > I've stack-ranked all the classic items that I, to my everlasting

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- Gave away a PDP 8/F for free - Sold a Tektronix 31 which I now regret. - Did not take a free Apollo DN1 and an also free PDP11/44, both because of space constraints. - Had to leave around 7 Philips P856/P857 minis in the trash, only kept one and the core memories of the others But then

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On Wed, May 18, 2016, Swift Griggs wrote: > > I've stack-ranked all the classic items that I, to my everlasting shame, > let go of at some point and now I feel like it was a mistake: I guess I don't have too much to regret yet. The things I regret getting rid of: 1. My family's first Commodore

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Yes, sometimes these things are thrown away in ignorance. Before I got into the hobby I junked a 40 track, SS Tandon drive because I figured something had broken. Now I know more, I'm sure it was just dirty heads from using degraded disks. Something a minute or two with a wet q-tip would have

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I am not sure I should read any more of this thread just before I head out to the Dayton Hamvention (http://hamvention.org). I no longer want to bring anything to put up for sale. I may need to have the spouse take away my wallet. Thought the amount and quality of vintage computers has been

Re: classics I threw away or sold ... foolishly

On 18/05/2016 21:50, Swift Griggs wrote: I've stack-ranked all the classic items that I, to my everlasting shame, let go of at some point and now I feel like it was a mistake: I can sympathise. I regret selling or giving away (or in one case lending, never to recover) these: - my first

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I freely admit I should have engaged in larceny at my university, as a very nice working 8/S was trashed shortly after I didn't try to leave with it. At the next school, they had two fully working IBM 1620's and a GT40 which were working and of course would have been a problem too, but they

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I must be luck in that I never sold or gave away anything I regret. My problem is passing on things I should have snagged. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Things I wish I had not gotten rid of... Convex computer PDP-8S Perq 1 Xerox 8010 (x5) Singer system 11 proto boards Singer 1654 calculator prototype Friden 7102 ascii terminal Intel iPSC Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics

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>Whoa. That's a really "cute" machine. What are those drives in the front, >flopticals or just cool looking 3.5" floppies ? I'm looking at this: > >http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/photos/hp_hp150_1.jpg > >-Swift No, it's just a sort-of ordinary, though thick floppy drive. The one I had

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On Wed, 18 May 2016, Swift Griggs wrote: I've stack-ranked all the classic items that I, to my everlasting shame, let go of at some point and now I feel like it was a mistake: 1. Amiga 2500. I ditched it thinking I'd pick up a 3000 then never did. Ugh. It was free. They were using at some

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On Wed, 18 May 2016, Jarratt RMA wrote: 1. HP 150 and 9121D, [...] I have one of these. It it a pretty ordinary 3.5" floppy as I recall. Really pleased with my example! It is just missing the printer in the top of the monitor. There have been a few minor changes in the disks, mostly the

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> On 18 May 2016 at 23:31 Swift Griggs wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 May 2016, Benjamin Huntsman wrote: > > 1. HP 150 and 9121D, [...] > > Whoa. That's a really "cute" machine. What are those drives in the front, > flopticals or just cool looking 3.5" floppies ? I'm looking at

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On Wed, 18 May 2016, Benjamin Huntsman wrote: > 1. HP 150 and 9121D, [...] Whoa. That's a really "cute" machine. What are those drives in the front, flopticals or just cool looking 3.5" floppies ? I'm looking at this: http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/photos/hp_hp150_1.jpg -Swift

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Among my regret list are: 1. HP 150 and 9121D, which I traded for: 2. Macintosh Plus in perfect condition 3. 6x NeXT Cubes which I profited on heavily, but liquidated the last three at fire-sale prices. However, I at least managed to trade for a Color Turbo NeXTStation and a few peripherals 4.

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On Wed, 18 May 2016, George Currie wrote: > When I called on Monday, he was glowing about how much gold was in the > thing and he had already scrapped it :( Grrr! I hate when folks do that! I don't really know why, but anytime someone talks about scrapping old kit for the gold, I get irritated.

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On Wed, 18 May 2016 14:50:17 -0600 (MDT), Swift Griggs wrote: I've stack-ranked all the classic items that I, to my everlasting shame, let go of at some point and now I feel like it was a mistake: It wasn't one I ever really possessed so technically it wasn't a

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> On 18 May 2016 at 22:11 Swift Griggs wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 May 2016, Ben Sinclair wrote: > > That's a fun and depressing exercise... > > Hee hee. I thought so, or perhaps I was just looking for company in my > mock-misery :-) > In my case nothing too spectacular,

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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Swift Griggs wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2016, Ben Sinclair wrote: > > 5. Next slab... But I just got another! > > Hehe, right on. Are you going to run NeXTStep or something else on it? Did > you get a color framebuffer by chance? > It's a

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My mom threw away my Amiga 300 when I went to college "no one was using it" But I will always kick myself for not taking a Xerox 386 workstation when I was offered to take it from work, I used it to compile form processing applications for a salesforce of reps using GRiD laptops in doctors'

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On Wed, 18 May 2016, Ben Sinclair wrote: > That's a fun and depressing exercise... Hee hee. I thought so, or perhaps I was just looking for company in my mock-misery :-) > 2. Polymorphic 8813 That thing looks rad. It's partially made from wood. Bonus. > 4. Apple /// Aww man! > 5. Next