A few of us were standing about talking in the hallway between our radio museum
and the ham club, and I happened to notice a small module of PCBs in the trash
bin. Unable to resist finding out what it was (or more accurately: what it once
had been) I reached in and pulled it out.
Turned out it had a 4004 system on it, so turned it into this:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/4004Monument/index.html
The SWTPC 6800 I obtained a few years ago was, shall we say, diverted from
going into the trash.
On 2015-Jun-22, at 1:58 PM, Ian S. King wrote:
> One day my girlfriend came home and told me she'd seen some people dumping
> what looked like circuit boards into a dumpster just a few blocks from our
> apartment. We took a drive over and there are at least a dozen ADM-3/a
> logic boards. Best yet: *all the chips were socketed*. And when I
> acquired some complete 3/a's a few years later, I had the character
> generator ROM for lower case! The girlfriend is long gone, but I'm sure
> some of those chips are still in my TTL stash.
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 5:59 PM, tony duell <a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>>> I have gotten some of my best stuff from the trash ... One day I will
>> never
>>
>> I suspect a lot of us have....
>>
>> When I was at university I had official permision to skip-dive (dumpster
>> dive). Got
>> all sorts of things. Pulled my HP2100A + 7900 drive + paper tape reader
>> right out
>> of a skip. Nearly did my back in, but,,,
>>
>> Another time I got a nice AR88LF communications receiver.
>>
>> Then there was the time I saw a load of HP stuff... I grabbed the H1350
>> graphics
>> translator (lovely unit), etc. At the bottom was what looked to be an
>> HP9825. Well,
>> I had one of those but I thought I could probably find a home for a second
>> one. In
>> any case I'd grab the I/O modules from it, and see if it contained any
>> ROMs in the
>> front ports. So out it came. When I looked at it I realised it wasn't a
>> 9825 at all,
>> it was the (much, much, rarer) 9831 (running BASIC not HPL) So of course I
>> grabbed
>> that.
>>
>> But a lot of my finds came to me before they were thrown out. I was known
>> for
>> wanting just about any old electronic or computer gear.
>>
>> -tony
>
> --
> Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
> The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
>
> Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
>
> University of Washington
>
> There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
