RE: Xerox stores
Like the Tandy Comuter Stores. I never saw a Color Computer in any of them that I visited. Some Model 4's and mostly Model 12's , 16's and later 6000's. bill From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of william degnan via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2017 5:23 PM To: Sam O'nella; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Xerox stores On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Sam O'nella via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Out of my own ignorance, did Xerox have models geared towards the home? Or > was this a store front for business/Altos types? > null Yes. "business centers", not home (except small home-based businesses). There was a time where one could find IBM, Xerox, etc business-oriented retail stores competing in every market. b
Re: Xerox stores
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Sam O'nella via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Out of my own ignorance, did Xerox have models geared towards the home? Or > was this a store front for business/Altos types? > null Yes. "business centers", not home (except small home-based businesses). There was a time where one could find IBM, Xerox, etc business-oriented retail stores competing in every market. b
Re: Xerox stores
Out of my own ignorance, did Xerox have models geared towards the home? Or was this a store front for business/Altos types? null
Re: Thousandth data book uploaded to bitsavers
Celebrate with a cake with 8 candles (1000) Thats great. I guess i should scour the archives and maybe im holding on to original books that arent as important anymore. null
Looking for a TURBOchannel Extender Cable
Today I finally got the DECstation 5000/240 with a TURBOchannel Extender cable from the Mesa Electronics clearout back in May. Details here if anyone is interested: https://robs-old-computers.com/2017/07/15/decstation-5000240/ Unfortunately I didn't get a cable to connect the Extender to the main machine. I have a feeling they are hard to come by, does anyone have one that is surplus to requirements or know where I can get one? Thanks Rob
Re: NASA Computers and Tapes found in dead engineer's basement YEAASS!!!
>Yes indeed! Still treasures to be found > > "There is no evidence that suggests this material is historically > significant... I recommend disposal through the immediate destruction > of all magnetic tapes." Well, the semi-good news is that copies were made of most of it and so there's a pretty good chance of it existing elsewhere--maybe. Where do/did you read that? For all anyone knows, they might have gone Apollo 11.
Re: NASA Computers and Tapes found in dead engineer's basement YEAASS!!!
On 07/15/2017 12:58 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt via cctalk wrote: >Yes indeed! Still treasures to be found > > "There is no evidence that suggests this material is historically > significant... I recommend disposal through the immediate destruction > of all magnetic tapes." Well, the semi-good news is that copies were made of most of it and so there's a pretty good chance of it existing elsewhere--maybe. --Chuck
Re: NASA Computers and Tapes found in dead engineer's basement YEAASS!!!
Yes indeed! Still treasures to be found "There is no evidence that suggests this material is historically significant... I recommend disposal through the immediate destruction of all magnetic tapes." Indeed
Re: NASA Computers and Tapes found in dead engineer's basement YEAASS!!!
NASA Computers and Tapes found in dead engineer's basement https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/nasa-computer-engineer-basement/ On Sat, 15 Jul 2017, Ed via cctalk wrote: Yes indeed! Still treasures to be found . . . and destroyed as quickly as possible?
NASA Computers and Tapes found in dead engineer's basement YEAASS!!!
NASA Computers and Tapes found in dead engineer's basement https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/nasa-computer-engineer-basement/ Yes indeed! Still treasures to be found Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org/)
Re: Xerox stores
On 7/15/17 9:30 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > with eBay, if you are > really interested in this stuff, you can still get your hands on things. To a degree. What shows up there is heavily sorted by the seller in what he thinks he can get money for. It's not like a junk store where a whole rack of stuff (sometimes with the docs) is there to pick over. I'm fairly annoyed at what Weird Stuff did to the stuff I recycled there a few weeks ago, like separating (and losing) the Tek 1240 analyzer pods that went with the unit I dumped off there. Once it got into the store, someone stole the knobs off it :-(
Re: Xerox stores
On 07/15/2017 02:58 AM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 8:59 PM, jim stephens via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: Backwater == St. Louis, BTW, a place I visit pretty often. Still my all time favorite, Stu's Gateway Electronics still going. I really miss the Gateway Electronics location in Denver, closed 15 years ago. Wow, has it really been that long? On the last day they were open, a friend and I bought pizza for the employees (and any other customers who showed up). The other electronic surplus places in Denver and Boulder have all closed too. AFAIK the nearest is OEM Parts in Colorado Springs. Maybe there's something in Fort Collins. Yup, sad, and these places were a big help to kids who were interested in technology. Of course, with eBay, if you are really interested in this stuff, you can still get your hands on things. Jon
Re: Xerox stores
On 07/14/2017 09:59 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: Backwater == St. Louis, BTW, a place I visit pretty often. Still my all time favorite, Stu's Gateway Electronics still going. Recently touched base with them when I found a giveaway. My cousin caught hell when he took me to one of their first locations down on Delmar. You don't take a 10 or 12 year old who likes to junk to Gateway w/o expecting consequences. Yup, I first experienced Gateway Electronics on Delmar in probably 1970. Wow, it was totally cool! Sadly "junky electronics on natural bridge" Electronics Exchange is going or gone, with the owner retired. Gotta leave things kind of bleak but for Gateway. Well, I rarely went to Electronics Exchange in the last 15 years. Stuff was so scrambled, that you couldn't find what you wanted anyway. They did have some good prices on whole spools of #26 stranded wire from Emerson for about $2. Some of the spools had 1000++ feet on them. Still using those. They did have tons of crimp terminals in bins, and I got some of those. I did see a "Boeing Surplus" sign on Lindbergh, north of 270, but have not gotten anyone to go check it out. I thought that had closed a LONG time ago, but maybe they have started it back up. The original poster (Jon) had quite a nice pile as did I as well, but those were days with a lot more nice stuff than now. (70s) Yeah, it is QUITE a pile, for sure. Still have my uVAX-II, although no hard drive for it at the moment. I have some ESDI drives with VMS 4.7 on them, and need to see if one of the controllers I have is format compatible with what is on the drive. Not a real high priority. I have a couple 9 track tape drives. And, the Honeywell Alert 24-bit airborne computer, either the first or second all-IC computer to ever exist. (Apollo Guidance Computer is the other one.) But, I have to get rid of some of the junk to make room for the stuff that actually works! Jon
