On 1/15/17 7:20 PM, Alan Perry wrote:
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> 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 interface is rare enough. Basically it's
just dual ported ordinary memory with a bit on the S-100 side that says
whose turn it is to use the memory.
Another rare item is my Texas Instruments SR-22 calculator. It does
full floating point in decimal, hexadecimal, and octal. Scientific
notation is in the same base, with an octal point and base-8 exponent,
for example.
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 it, though.
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