Another old phart trying to clean out the house

I'm in the process of "cleansing" before putting our house on the market in the near future. I've been eBaying lots of things over the last couple of years (thanks to all here who have been good customers!) and have more to sell, but also lots of "stuff" with little or no market value that could

Choosing a shipping carrier -

Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you - http://abcnews.go.com/US/passenger-train-crashes-fedex-truck-shocking-video/story?id=45022454

Docs for DEC MPS Intel 8008 Development System scanned

The MPS (MicroProcessor Series) was an attempt by DEC to introduce an Intel 8008-based system as a cost-effective replacement for minicomputers used in process control. The system has its own 14-bit blinkenlights front panel for accessing the 8008. Docs here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bezyixp

Have Calcomp 565 plotter - looking for pen mechanism

I returned from the recent VCF-West with one more item off my ever-shorter "must have" list - I am the new owner of a very nice Calcomp 565 drum plotter. Even better, I was able to find the perfect shipping container for it at Weird Stuff! Photos here - http://tinyurl.com/calcomp565 . The only

Not a keyboard collector! but looking for a broken vT-100 keyboard

I have a couple of VT-52 keyboards that need repair and I'm looking for a _broken_ VT-100 keyboard to serve as a donor for switch bodies. Anybody have a junk keyboard with a few working keys lying around? Please contact me off list. Thanks, Jack j...@ckrubin.us PS I'll be at VCF next week if th

PDP-8/A 128K memory - M8417 or M8418?

I've been looking for a 128K MOS memory board for my PDP-8/A for a while. I finally got one, but it turned out to be an M8418. The docs I've seen (bitsavers EK-MS8CD-TM-001, 1980 + printsets) talk about an M8417 with 4k DRAM chips (MS8-C) and an M8417 with 16k DRAM chips (MS8-D), but apparentl

Bags for RK05 disk cartridges

Now that I've cleaned a stack of RK05 DECpacks, I want to keep them clean. Ideally, I'd like to find Ziploc-style poly bags like the DEC originals with the warning about dirt on the heads (the famous hair/head picture). I haven't been able to find a match for the original (roughly 16.5" square)

Vintage compu stuff in NOLA?

I'll be in New Orleans for a few days next week - anything vintage electronics to recommend? Thanks, Jack

Massive document depository

This was shared on the TekScopes mailing list - http://bee.mif.pg.gda.pl/ciasteczkowypotwor/ "Massive" is an understatement. Jack

VCF-Berlin, 2015

Here are some of my photos from VCF-Berlin - http://tinyurl.com/vcfb-2015 . More narrative is at the Vintage Computer Forum - http://tinyurl.com/vcfb-vcfd . Enjoy - I certainly did! Jack

DEC M705 vs M7050 in PC05

If you were following Joerg Hoppe's recent PC05 auction on eBay, you might have noticed that his system had an M705 in the backplane where I would have expected an M7050. This is the way he received it and the restored unit works as it should. Clearly the cards are similar but different but are