Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I've gotten rid of a lot of wierd stuff in the past. > > BUt toiday, I still have some QBUS M68K boards. And I still have Terak > boards (should > qualify as rare I imagine) no Terak boxes but they work

RE: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Pete Lancashire via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Sunday, March 5, 2017 12:22 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

Here is what comes to mind, it may not qualify as a computer. A Westinghouse Numa-Logic PC700. It is an early PLC. uses a Sinetics 8X300 bit slice. Unfortunately Westinghouse only started to invest in PLCs about the time the they merged with CBS and in a few years all of Westinghouse became

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Ed; He was working for the US Air Force in Washington, DC. He was not a 'computer guy', but rather a management person. When I found the certificate in his papers I realized that that was very early in the computer revolution. I sort of followed in his footsteps and became a physicist at a

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On 01/29/2017 03:55 AM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: see more on this computer here... and we have modules for this tube computer we need to photo and more stuff to scan and add. http://www.smecc.org/honeywell_datamatic_1000.htm Wow, 230 KVA, 67K cubic feet, 170,000 Lbs $2 million

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Doug ... which sites or state was your dad working on them? Railroad owned some IRS too.. Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Saturday, January 28, 2017 Douglas Taylor wrote: I have a certificate that my father was given in 1957 for training on a Honeywell Datamatic 1000

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On 01/29/2017 01:55 AM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: > Honeywell Datamatic 1000 uses 3 inch wide tape > we have a 3 inch very very heavy reel and the 30 something track tape > drive head could this someday be the start of the ultimate DIY tape > drive build and tape recover? > > see

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On 01/29/2017 01:55 AM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: > Doug! We would like a scan of your dad's certificate! > > We have an ongoing collection on this computer at SMECC > > 1955 Honeywell computer business was originated from the Datamatic > Corporation, founded in Newton MA, as a

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Doug! We would like a scan of your dad's certificate! We have an ongoing collection on this computer at SMECC 1955 Honeywell computer business was originated from the Datamatic Corporation, founded in Newton MA, as a joint-venture by Raytheon and Honeywell, to produce large-scale

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On Jan 28, 2017 8:51 PM, "william degnan" wrote: > > > On Jan 28, 2017 8:40 PM, "Chuck Guzis" wrote: > > > > On 01/28/2017 05:12 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote: > > > I have a certificate that my father was given in 1957 for training on > > > a Honeywell

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On 01/28/2017 05:12 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote: > I have a certificate that my father was given in 1957 for training on > a Honeywell Datamatic 1000 computer. > > Here is a summary of this 'advance' in computer technology from the > ACM: > > The DATAmatic 1000 (D-1000) is a high-capacity

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On Jan 28, 2017 8:40 PM, "Chuck Guzis" wrote: > > On 01/28/2017 05:12 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote: > > I have a certificate that my father was given in 1957 for training on > > a Honeywell Datamatic 1000 computer. > > > > Here is a summary of this 'advance' in computer technology

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I have a certificate that my father was given in 1957 for training on a Honeywell Datamatic 1000 computer. Here is a summary of this 'advance' in computer technology from the ACM: The DATAmatic 1000 (D-1000) is a high-capacity electronic data-processing system designed specifically for

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

I have a Minivac 601, but it is in storage and I am not sure if it is working. I'm thinking of restoring it and bringing to VCF East. The video is not mine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6OA8HfnxxU On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Bob Rosenbloom wrote: > On 1/14/2017

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On 1/14/2017 3:49 PM, Rick Bensene wrote: --snip I know what you mean about the DC300 carts...what a lousy design...at least from a longevity standpoint. I've had numerous nightmares with those cartridges in a number of vintage systems that I've got.Broken tension bands, sticky

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item, do you own?

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? Probably the rarest computer-related item I have is a 7AD7 flip/flop module from the Whirlwind I Computer. I'm also rather fond of my Intel Intellec4 System. I also have an Intel Intellec 4/40. - Gary

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On 01/19/2017 09:30 AM, geneb wrote: If there's only one mirror, he's missing most of it then. A Wide Angle Collimator (what they call the "single channel" displays) has a partially-reflective first surface mirror at a 45 degree angle (the beam splitter) and a special curved mirror

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Jon Elson wrote: Well, the aviation community is just INSANE over liability. And, since the outfit that makes the wing marker lights gets sued many times when a light plane goes down, even though the cause was pilot error, engine failure, instrument failure, running out

RE: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck > Guzis > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 9:09 AM > ... > I find it curious that what seems to be collected in the minicomputer area > seems to be gear of major brands. > > Does anyone collect Varian minis? > Or General

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On 01/18/2017 12:45 PM, geneb wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Jon Elson wrote: Wow, kind of surprised they were concerned about that. Especially a 727 sim, who the heck is still flying THOSE?? They're pretty common in South America and some 3rd world countries. I suspect it was 90% Boeing

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- Original Message - From: "Jeff Woolsey" <j...@jlw.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 2:59 PM Subject: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you o

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On 1/18/17 5:57 AM, Mike Stein wrote: > A fine relatively rare machine, but not very useful without the other half, > alas... ;-( Quite. I did have the other half for a while, and it worked as well as we (philistines--college students having fun) thought it could. We'd had enough fun with it

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Jon Elson wrote: Conductron-Missouri was an outfit that may have been started by ex-McDonnell people, and did a large portion of their business supplying electronic systems to McDonnell. It was later bought by McDonnell, and became McDonnell Douglas Electronics Co. Ahh,

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On 01/18/2017 07:08 AM, geneb wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Jon Elson wrote: On 01/17/2017 01:50 PM, geneb wrote: I used to work on a 727 flight simulator that used a Varian 620 to generate the visuals. The display was capable of addressing 1024 points of light and that's how the runways

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On 01/17/2017 06:16 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote: It is a typo .. should have been 50 Upside down on the basement floor http://petelancashire.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=7885 Ahh, the 360/50, I knew it well. Maybe, too well! But, I always thought the /50 and /65 were just about the

Re: Varian, GA was: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

good. I'm glad it wasn't recycled. On 1/18/17 1:43 AM, Christian Corti wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Al Kossow wrote: >> let me see what I can get to on it. we got a ton of stuff from the stuff we >> bought in Germany > > That is where our GA stuff comes from ;-) > So probably you could have

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On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:58:11AM -0800, Alan Frisbie wrote: > I just joined this list, so I'm not sure which of the items I own > would be considered by this group to be rare or unusual, but here > goes... > > Imlac PDS-1D graphics terminal, with the large screen and detached > keyboard. Also

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. The processor cabinets make nice work tables though... m - Original Message - From: "Jeff Woolsey" <j...@jlw.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 5:42 PM Subject: Re: What's the

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Jon Elson wrote: On 01/17/2017 01:50 PM, geneb wrote: I used to work on a 727 flight simulator that used a Varian 620 to generate the visuals. The display was capable of addressing 1024 points of light and that's how the runways and airport outline were drawn. Pretty

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

A few more things I have, that I just thought of. A plastic brightness control knob from an IBM 5110 portable computer. I removed this a few seconds before I was tasked to smash it and half a dozen others to bits. First thing to be done was to 'de-louse' the CRTs by knocking the glass pip off

Re: Varian, GA was: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Al Kossow wrote: let me see what I can get to on it. we got a ton of stuff from the stuff we bought in Germany That is where our GA stuff comes from ;-) So probably you could have manuals and software for the SPC-16. Christian

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Chuck Guzis wrote: I find it curious that what seems to be collected in the minicomputer area seems to be gear of major brands. Me too :-) Does anyone collect Varian minis? Yes! We have a couple of Varian 620/f (some with expansion boxes) Or General Automation?

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It is a typo .. should have been 50 Upside down on the basement floor http://petelancashire.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=7885 waiting to be mounted. I do not have a the original IBM 360 aluminum name plate, but got one of eBay, in not so good shape, plans are to have a new one done at a local

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I have an Ultrix daemon mouse mouse pad Don't know if that qualifies as unique or not based on all the other cool stuff that has flown by... Warner On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Tom Watson wrote: > Most unusual: > > I've got a complete card deck of Witran for the IBM

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On 1/15/17 8:58 PM, Jeff Woolsey wrote: > Burroughts E1400 deskside unit for the accounting machine. It's 1966 > vintage, and has a couple core planes. I have the printset, too. It > makes a dandy table, and hasn't seen any moving electrons (or holes) for > 30 years. The local museum refused

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On 01/17/2017 01:50 PM, geneb wrote: I used to work on a 727 flight simulator that used a Varian 620 to generate the visuals. The display was capable of addressing 1024 points of light and that's how the runways and airport outline were drawn. Pretty neat stuff. Here's some pics of the

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Last year I picked up some documentation on the PDP16 family. Does anyone have any hardware, docs, software or knowledge on it? I have not had much time to look at it since I got it, and want to see how it compares to my PDP14 items. On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Ethan Dicks

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [eBay warning]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: > > Does anyone collect Varian minis? > > Oddly I was shown this eBay ad when looking at Al's latest post. Don't > know if anyone else spotted it. > > Machine looks nice but far, far, out of my price range: > >

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [eBay warning]

sorry, I see that someone else had already posted this. I'm only about 100 messages behind on the list. mcl

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [eBay warning]

> Does anyone collect Varian minis? Oddly I was shown this eBay ad when looking at Al's latest post. Don't know if anyone else spotted it. Machine looks nice but far, far, out of my price range:

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

I had a DG Nova (guess one could call it a Nova 1) Loaned it to who I though was a friend, he vanished one day. The Nova showed up at a local surplus store but even though I had proof it was mine, I had the release letter from the company I worked for and got it from, he would not even sell it to

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I don't own one yet, but I believe there is an IBM or UNIVAC mainframe or obscure mini computer somewhere in the bowels of these old DuPont office buildings in nearby Wilmington, Delaware. ...where are they all now?I only need one IBM 360, UNIVAC, PDP 6, something like that so I can join into

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On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Alan Frisbie wrote: > I just joined this list, so I'm not sure which of the items I own > would be considered by this group to be rare or unusual, but here > goes... Don't I remember you from vmsnet.pdp11 or comp.sys.dec? > DEC RKV11D

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From: "Jay West" Was it possible to configure an Access system with a mix of a 21MX and 2100? (I'm not challenging the assertion; it just never occurred to me...) According to the documentation - specifically "no". Both

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> On Jan 17, 2017, at 12:58 PM, Alan Frisbie wrote: > > I just joined this list, so I'm not sure which of the items I own > would be considered by this group to be rare or unusual, but here > goes… > Hi Alan, Nice to see you on the list. If memory serves me

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

> On Jan 17, 2017, at 2:50 PM, geneb wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Jon Elson wrote: > >> On 01/17/2017 11:09 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: >>> I find it curious that what seems to be collected in the minicomputer >>> area seems to be gear of major brands. >>> Does anyone

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Jon Elson wrote: On 01/17/2017 11:09 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: I find it curious that what seems to be collected in the minicomputer area seems to be gear of major brands. Does anyone collect Varian minis? I had a Varian 620F a long time ago. It was a whole bunch of

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On 01/17/2017 10:58, Alan Frisbie wrote: > > ... getting rid of all the stuff > I accumulated over my almost 50 years in the computer industry. I > have three rental storage units full of stuff and the cost is > killing me! Is it OK to post ads on this list? No, no it isn't! Best you send me

RE: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

17, 2017 11:09 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132] I find it curious that what seems to be collected in the minicomputer area seems to be gear of major

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

I just joined this list, so I'm not sure which of the items I own would be considered by this group to be rare or unusual, but here goes... Imlac PDS-1D graphics terminal, with the large screen and detached keyboard. Also a second one with the small screen and attached keyboard, but the

Re: Varian, GA was: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

let me see what I can get to on it. we got a ton of stuff from the stuff we bought in Germany On 1/17/17 10:00 AM, Bob Rosenbloom wrote: > I would really love to play with the 18/30 but have very little documentation > on it. No hardware docs at all. It's > compatible with the IBM 1800 and

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On 1/17/17 9:09 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > Does anyone collect Varian minis? > I had a few 620's, the most interesting was the 18-bit version. No software to speak of for them. I even talked to the guy who ended up supporting them down in LA when Sperry spit them out. The only thing he had was

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On 2017-Jan-17, at 9:13 AM, william degnan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > >> I find it curious that what seems to be collected in the minicomputer >> area seems to be gear of major brands. >> >> Does anyone collect Varian minis? >> Or General

Varian, GA was: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On 1/17/2017 9:09 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: I find it curious that what seems to be collected in the minicomputer area seems to be gear of major brands. Does anyone collect Varian minis? Or General Automation? Or any one of the many non-DEC, HP, etc. minis? Heck, I don't read much about DG minis

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looking for a 5 MB drive, called PTS 6876. It is also known under other (Philips) names. /Nico - Original Message - From: Rik Bos To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic Posts' Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 3:58 PM Subject: RE: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

> On Jan 17, 2017, at 12:13 PM, william degnan wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > >> I find it curious that what seems to be collected in the minicomputer >> area seems to be gear of major brands. >> >> Does anyone

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On 01/17/2017 11:09 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: I find it curious that what seems to be collected in the minicomputer area seems to be gear of major brands. Does anyone collect Varian minis? I had a Varian 620F a long time ago. It was a whole bunch of wire-wrap boards. It sort of tried to work,

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > I find it curious that what seems to be collected in the minicomputer > area seems to be gear of major brands. > > Does anyone collect Varian minis? > Or General Automation? > Or any one of the many non-DEC, HP, etc. minis?

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

I find it curious that what seems to be collected in the minicomputer area seems to be gear of major brands. Does anyone collect Varian minis? Or General Automation? Or any one of the many non-DEC, HP, etc. minis? Heck, I don't read much about DG minis on this list--and they were a major force.

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On 01/16/2017 03:02 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote: Currently about the only thing remaining I would come close to being rare is a IBM 360/55 Front panel, spent $300+100 shipping in the early to mid 90's for it. Hmm, what's a 360/55? I know the 360/50 and the 360/65 quite well. Seems there is some

RE: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item

My rarest item is a Diehl Alphatronics a very rare combination of computer/calculator it's a same kind machine as the HP 9820A or some Wang calculators from the era (early 70ties). I also have the service manuals for this machine and some spares to keep it running. Other rare items in my

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> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: cctech [mailto:cctech-boun...@classiccmp.org] Namens Glen Slick > Verzonden: dinsdag 17 januari 2017 4:32 > Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Onderwerp: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item >

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Most unusual: I've got a complete card deck of Witran for the IBM 1620. Witran is an interpretive Fortran compiler (not even Fortran II) that was load & go. It was written in 1964. Somewhere I have a listing as well. Yes, it goes back a ways.

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On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 07:39:00PM -0500, Michael Thompson wrote: > I have two Sun 386i systems. It has an Intel 386 processor and runs SunOS. > Not exactly a big seller for Sun. I met some of the designers at the Vintage > Computer Festival East 2.0 in Burlington, MA. I like this machine just

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

I have two Sun 386i systems. It has an Intel 386 processor and runs SunOS. Not exactly a big seller for Sun. I met some of the designers at the Vintage Computer Festival East 2.0 in Burlington, MA. -- Michael Thompson

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On 2017-01-16 21:42, Chris Hanson wrote: > On Jan 12, 2017, at 12:12 PM, Leif Johansson wrote: >> >> I saved one of the MIT CADR top-of-rack plates (the one with the logo >> and a sticker from the lab on it). Me and peter recently discovered >> he saved the rest of the box. Will

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Currently about the only thing remaining I would come close to being rare is a IBM 360/55 Front panel, spent $300+100 shipping in the early to mid 90's for it. I have a Tektronix 6130 that as an (ex) employee were were able to build at cost. The 6130 is pretty much the same as a 4132 Does a

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-- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 12:02:26 -0600 From: "Jay West" <jw...@classiccmp.org> To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Subject: RE: What's the

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 07:27:00PM -0600, Jay West wrote: > Yes. Please do! > > Pontus wrote... > There is a system quite like it standing in the halls of the maths > department here. I'll have to take a closer look next time I'm there. > I'll go there on thursday. I suspect it will be

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On 1/15/17 8:58 PM, Jeff Woolsey wrote: On 1/15/17 7:20 PM, Alan Perry wrote: If I had something rare, I would donate it to an appropriate museum. Good luck with that. I tried with my rarest, and they claimed they already had one. I had a Televideo TS-1605 that I donated to LCM. alan

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

> On 16 Jan 2017, at 21:42 , Chris Hanson wrote: > > On Jan 12, 2017, at 12:54 PM, Raymond Wiker wrote: >> >> I've been following this topic, and suddenly realised… that I don't actually >> have any particularly rare or unusual items – the

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On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Jay West wrote: > > In the end HP1000 meant a 21MX M, E, K, or F - which was 2105, 2108, > 2112, 2109, 2113, 2111, 2117. I think some later AXXX systems were also > considered HP1000's, but that's out of my area (too new). > The L-Series

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

From: allison > > The 32016 was not clocked very fast nor did it have any pipelines to > speak of. I recall the National dog-and-pony show guys showing up and having a good long talk with them. The 320xx sounded like a very advanced chip when compared with the usual 8086

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

From: Al Kossow > > That reminds me I need to dig out the Genix sources I have. > I'd really like to see that, if it ever came to light. KJ

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

From: allison > >The 32016 was not clocked very fast nor did it have any pipelines to >speak of. True. And lots of interesting bugs; some show-stoppers in early steppings. >If the 32016 had a second generation, some tweaks and faster process it >might have had hope but like

RE: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

Yes. Please do! Pontus wrote... There is a system quite like it standing in the halls of the maths department here. I'll have to take a closer look next time I'm there. /P

RE: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item

Mark wrote... Was it possible to configure an Access system with a mix of a 21MX and 2100? (I'm not challenging the assertion; it just never occurred to me...) According to the documentation - specifically "no". Both processors must be the same type.

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

> >>> If I can mention items that I have owned, the list becomes slightly > >>> longer: a PC532, Symbolics MacIvory II and a TI microExplorer. > >> > >> What happened to the MacIvory II and microExplorer? > > > > If we're considering MacIvories in this category, there's one sitting > > next to

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On 01/10/2017 14:09, Andy Cloud wrote: > > I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the > rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? Rare and unusual? That disqualifies a lot of things that are neat, maybe uncommon, but mainstream. Wicat S-2000

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On Jan 16, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > >>> If I can mention items that I have owned, the list becomes slightly >>> longer: a PC532, Symbolics MacIvory II and a TI microExplorer. >> >> What happened to the MacIvory II and microExplorer? > > If we're

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On 01/15/2017 08:23, Al Kossow wrote: > > > On 1/14/17 7:20 PM, allison wrote: > >> If the 32016 had a second generation > > It had several generations. The 32532 saw some use in laser printers. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS320xx This kind of "buries the lead," however -- the NS32532

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A Symbolics XL400 workstation with an 4MW extra memory board and two 780MB ESDI disks, for a total of 8MW (48MB) of memory and 1.5GB of storage in 1991. -- Chris

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On Jan 12, 2017, at 12:54 PM, Raymond Wiker wrote: > > I've been following this topic, and suddenly realised… that I don't actually > have any particularly rare or unusual items – the nearest I can think of is a > Commodore N-60 navigation calculator, but I also have two

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On Jan 12, 2017, at 12:12 PM, Leif Johansson wrote: > > I saved one of the MIT CADR top-of-rack plates (the one with the logo > and a sticker from the lab on it). Me and peter recently discovered > he saved the rest of the box. Will probably reunite at some point :-) Nice! Any

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item

From: Al Kossow On 1/15/17 10:02 AM, Jay West wrote: I'd have to say my HP-2000 systems that are running are the rarest that I'm aware of. So I fairly strongly suspect that my running HP-2000's are the only ones left, anywhere. probably true.

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 10:20:56AM -0800, Al Kossow wrote: > > > On 1/15/17 10:02 AM, Jay West wrote: > > I'd have to say my HP-2000 systems that are running are the rarest that I'm > > aware of. > > So I fairly strongly suspect that my running HP-2000's are the only ones > > left, anywhere. >

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On 1/15/17 7:20 PM, Alan Perry wrote: > > If I had something rare, I would donate it to an appropriate museum. Good luck with that. I tried with my rarest, and they claimed they already had one. Someone mentioned Vectrex, which isn't all that rare. However, my one-off homebrew S-100 Vectrex

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

I have a Sun VME to Pixar interface board somewhere in my collection. -- Michael Thompson

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

My most unusual computer-related item is an Axil 320 (SPARCstation 20 clone laid out like a SS10 on the inside) running OPENSTEP 4.2. But it would be nicer if OPENSTEP made use of the second processor module in it. Or the receipt for the very last magneto-optical cartridges for the NeXT

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On 01/15/2017 10:20 AM, Al Kossow wrote: On 1/14/17 6:29 PM, Jon Elson wrote: I got versions of Genix and Xenix with it. Do you still have Xenix? I don't think so, but I'll look a bit more. I may have overwritten those with Genix. I do have the 24 or so Genix install disks. These are 5.25"

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On 1/15/17 10:02 AM, Jay West wrote: > I'd have to say my HP-2000 systems that are running are the rarest that I'm > aware of. > So I fairly strongly suspect that my running HP-2000's are the only ones > left, anywhere. probably true.

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

> On 15 Jan 2017, at 17:23 , Al Kossow wrote: > > > > On 1/14/17 7:20 PM, allison wrote: > >> If the 32016 had a second generation > > It had several generations. The 32532 saw some use in laser printers. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS320xx

RE: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

I'd have to say my HP-2000 systems that are running are the rarest that I'm aware of. I know of a few folks who have various bits and pieces towards assembling one, but not complete. I know two collectors who (each) have most if not all of the parts, but the systems are far from operational and

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

Well, after reading what other people have, my contribution seems pretty piddly, but here it is. The rarest hardware I have is probably a Sun SPARCstation Voyager or a Tadpole 3GX - I'm not sure which is rarer (and those are just my perception of rarity, which could be wrong). It's possible one

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On 1/14/17 7:20 PM, allison wrote: > If the 32016 had a second generation It had several generations. The 32532 saw some use in laser printers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS320xx

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On 1/14/17 6:29 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > I got versions of Genix and Xenix with it. Do you still have Xenix? That reminds me I need to dig out the Genix sources I have. There were a couple of companies that made PC cards with the chipset on it, and once company that made a Q-Bus

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

Bob Rosenbloom or Ian Finder might have one. I forgot to inventory the ROMpacks in the 4054 that I sent to Ian and Bob has a pretty big collection of 405x stuff. On 1/14/17 3:49 PM, Rick Bensene wrote: > I have a 4907 single 8" floppy disk drive for my 4051, and it works great, > but I don't

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

I dug out the boards that I have to dump the eproms, and a while back put up what I had for schematics on bitsavers. On 1/14/17 3:40 PM, Rick Bensene wrote: > > >> From: "Rick Bensene" >>> - A Tektronix 4132 Unix workstation using a National 32016 CPU and a >>> 4.2bsd

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

On 01/14/2017 09:29 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > On 01/14/2017 05:40 PM, Rick Bensene wrote: >> >>> From: "Rick Bensene" - A Tektronix 4132 Unix workstation using a National 32016 CPU and a 4.2bsd port called UTek >> Jon wrote: >> >>> Gee, how does it perform? I

RE: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

I initially wrote in response to this thread: - A Tektronix 4132 Unix workstation using a National 32016 CPU and a 4.2bsd port called UTek >> Jon responded: >> >>> Gee, how does it perform? I built a clone of a Logical Microcomputer Co. >>> 32016 Multibus system and got it working.

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