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From: "Al Kossow via cctalk"
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Sent: Friday, June 14, 2019 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: Value of Burroughs B9974 disk pack
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> On 6/14/19 10:17 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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>> On 6/14/19 10:14 AM, Al Kossow via ccta
> From: Alan Perry
> a chance to see and touch something that I haven't seen in decades
> that was once a big part of my life.
I know exactly what you mean. PDP-11's were a huge part of my professional
life:
-11/20: the first computer I actually used, in high school
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> On Jun 14, 2019, at 10:14 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk
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>> On 6/14/19 9:57 AM, Alan Perry wrote:
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>> I have been talking to other folks at CHM about seeing the one there, but
>> need to work on my rationale.
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> There really isn't much to see that is in the picture.
On 6/14/19 10:17 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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> On 6/14/19 10:14 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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>> On 6/14/19 9:57 AM, Alan Perry wrote:
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>>> I have been talking to other folks at CHM about seeing the one there, but
>>> need to work on my rationale.
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>> There really
On 6/14/19 10:14 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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> On 6/14/19 9:57 AM, Alan Perry wrote:
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>> I have been talking to other folks at CHM about seeing the one there, but
>> need to work on my rationale.
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> There really isn't much to see that is in the picture. It's not like the
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On 6/14/19 9:57 AM, Alan Perry wrote:
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> I have been talking to other folks at CHM about seeing the one there, but
> need to work on my rationale.
There really isn't much to see that is in the picture. It's not like the system
in in one physical location
in storage. Everything is
> On Jun 14, 2019, at 9:25 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk
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>> On 6/14/19 8:50 AM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
>> The large A Series work was done in Paoli, King of Prussia, Trediffryn and
>> probably other cities around Valley Forge that I don’t recall.
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>> The B1000 work was
On 6/14/19 8:50 AM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
> The large A Series work was done in Paoli, King of Prussia, Trediffryn and
> probably other cities around Valley Forge that I don’t recall.
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> The B1000 work was done in Goleta (Santa Barbara), CA plus mfg in Liege,
> Belgium. I was
The large A Series work was done in Paoli, King of Prussia, Trediffryn and
probably other cities around Valley Forge that I don’t recall.
The B1000 work was done in Goleta (Santa Barbara), CA plus mfg in Liege,
Belgium. I was responsible for a central piece of system software (GEMCOS), so
I
The Philadelphia area has more Burroughs hardware in the wild than most
places, you might just shake a few things free from ex employees living in
the area, if you're lucky.
Bill
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 11:50 PM Alan Perry via cctalk
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> So, I ended up getting it. Anyone got a running system
So, I ended up getting it. Anyone got a running system that can try to read the
data off of it?
> On Jun 13, 2019, at 12:33 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk
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> When I worked for Burroughs/Unisys, I was one of the last people working on
> software for B1000. I think I was the sole user
When I worked for Burroughs/Unisys, I was one of the last people working
on software for B1000. I think I was the sole user of the B1965 at their
Lake Forest (Orange County) California office in '88-89. I was
surrounded in my cubicle by all of the disk packs for that system. My
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