On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Peter Cetinski wrote:
> > On Dec 17, 2015, at 4:40 PM, devin davison wrote:
> >
> > I Volunteer constantly at the salvation army looking for such things to
> > show up.
>
> I love your dedication to the hobby. Working at the Salvation Army just
> to get an "in"
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Noel
> Chiappa
> Sent: 18 December 2015 14:44
> To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
> Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: Decisions you regret (classiccmp related)
>
>
>
>
>
> He said that the scrappers had already been called, and that I'd have to
> beat them there and get the stuff, as he wanted it gone that day. I
> signed the waiver, and then went to my boss immediately and said I had an
> urgent issue to tend to, and that I needed the rest of the day off.
Two things...not really "decisions", but circumstances where had I been more
clueful, would have resulted in getting some good stuff --
1) My father owned a production machine shop. He had an early CNC mill that
used a PDP 8/m as the "C" in CNC (Computerized Numerical Control). The machine
wa
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Noel Chiappa
wrote:
> 'joy' of using exclusively Teletypes for
> the first two years I worked with computers, and I didn't (and still don't)
> miss them one bit!
>
> Which is not to say I look down on those who collect/restore them, I
> understand they are an imp
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Mike Boyle wrote:
> --
> I did a Google search on a straight eight system and found this . .
>
> http://www.pdp8.net/shows/vcfe12/exhibit_small.jpg
>
> If this is the correct image I see a small round screen and if memory
> serves me a line
> like a heart beat mon
> From: Doug Ingraham
> I regret that when I obtained my Straight 8 system in the early 80's I
> chose not to take the ASR-35.
> ...
> A glass terminal is not the same experience as a teletype.
Thank goodness for that! I had the 'joy' of using exclusively Teletypes for
the fir
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:41 PM, wrote:
> My Dad used to bring home bits of dead System/360 from work, my brother
> and I
> would of course pull this stuff to bits 'just to see what was inside'.
> Printer trains, SLT cards, a pile of SMS cards from his earlier workings
> with
> IBM 650s, all sort
I have two big regrets (lots of little ones). the first was a Litton 1251 I
got in the early 1980s for $25 from the State of Oregon. 5 2X3' components,
control, printer, tape reader/ punch and two 200K drum memory units. Played
with for a while and scrapped it when aluminum was bringing 80 cents pe
> On Dec 17, 2015, at 4:40 PM, devin davison wrote:
>
> I Volunteer constantly at the salvation army looking for such things to
> show up.
I love your dedication to the hobby. Working at the Salvation Army just to get
an "in" on the vintage computers. Brilliant!
old ibm stuff, disk packs, big floppys, etc but
nothing anywhere close to a hp 1000.
--Devin
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 2:32 PM, wrote:
> From: "j...@cimmeri.com"
> Subject: Re: Decisions you regret
>
> m...@markesystems.com wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Yep. A
From: "j...@cimmeri.com"
Subject: Re: Decisions you regret
m...@markesystems.com wrote:
Yep. Among the things that I have
given away (to Goodwill, or possibly
Salvation Army) - all in running
condition:
I'm going to go shoot myself now.
~~
I'm curious, why w
On 12/17/15 10:44 AM, Lee Courtney wrote:
About 10-15 years ago a pristine multi-rack fully stuffed HP1000 F-Series
with disc, 1/2 tape, and rack of analog I/O (maybe 2250?) at AuctionBDI.
I have it in storage in San Carlos.
About 10-15 years ago a pristine multi-rack fully stuffed HP1000 F-Series
with disc, 1/2 tape, and rack of analog I/O (maybe 2250?) at AuctionBDI. I
didn't have room. Checked the following week and no-one had bid on it and
it was gone, probably scrapped. Minimum bid was $25. :-(
Even worse was the
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> The biggest one, which started me down the path of software preservation,
> was giving away all the DECtapes that were on UW-Milwaukee's TSS/8 system
> to Gary Coleman in Cleveland.
>
What you talkin' bout Willis?
I thought they filmed Differ
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Doug Ingraham
wrote:
> I regret that when I obtained my Straight 8 system in the early 80's I
> chose not to take the ASR-35. In retrospect this was a huge mistake. My
> thinking at the time was in addition to not having room for it it was noisy
> and would be
On 17 December 2015 at 17:07, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> Most of the stories here top mine but I keep kicking myself for
> leaving a DEC prioris behind. It's a relatively bulky x86 but it
> uses the same PSU as a broken AlphaServer 1000 4/233 I have. I
> suspected it was the case but I thought the
We were moving, and my Spousal Unit convinced me to toss things I hadn't
touched in a while - including my Intercept Jr. with the 32K battery-backed
RAM card, and an old-style acoustic coupler modem.Now that I'm
considering a major move again (after my daughter goes off to college, in a
couple
>
> We were moving, and my Spousal Unit convinced me to toss things I hadn't
> touched in a while - including my Intercept Jr. with the 32K battery-backed
> RAM card, and an old-style acoustic coupler modem.Now that I'm
> considering a major move again (after my daughter goes off to college, i
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:17:20AM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
> Although I suspect a lot of people here have stories like that...
>
Most of the stories here top mine but I keep kicking myself for
leaving a DEC prioris behind. It's a relatively bulky x86 but it
uses the same PSU as a broken A
The biggest one, which started me down the path of software preservation,
was giving away all the DECtapes that were on UW-Milwaukee's TSS/8 system
to Gary Coleman in Cleveland. I managed to find a box or two that other
people on the system kept, which is where what I have of the TSS/8 sources
cam
I regret that when I obtained my Straight 8 system in the early 80's I
chose not to take the ASR-35. In retrospect this was a huge mistake. My
thinking at the time was in addition to not having room for it it was noisy
and would be difficult to maintain. I used my Processor Tech Sol 20 as the
te
My Dad used to bring home bits of dead System/360 from work, my brother and I
would of course pull this stuff to bits 'just to see what was inside'.
Printer trains, SLT cards, a pile of SMS cards from his earlier workings with
IBM 650s, all sorts of bits of electronic and electromechanical items. D
On 12/16/2015 4:58 PM,
m...@markesystems.com wrote:
Yep. Among the things that I have
given away (to Goodwill, or possibly
Salvation Army) - all in running
condition:
- A complete HP-1000 system: A600
processor with internal hard drive,
serial card + 8-port serial mux, all
floppies,
On 12/16/2015 11:48 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
> On 12/16/2015 11:01 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
>> Anywho, I was looking at a couple of 19" racks containing an odd
>> computer of some sort. Had this funny square keyboard, and what looked
>> like LINCTapes to me. Looked kinda "home brew", using DEC Flip Chips.
> On Dec 16, 2015, at 3:58 PM,
> wrote:
>
> I'm going to go shoot myself now.
At least nothing you’ve destroyed was the last example on earth.
I drove two RM03s cross-country without locking the heads, then destroyed a
stack of rare PDP-10 disk packs (including a RED pack and an ITS system
Mark wrote...
-
Among the things that I have given away (to Goodwill, or possibly Salvation
Army) - all in running condition:
...[snip a list of equipment I'd *LOVE* to have]...
-
I just put in an application for employment at Goodwill/Salvation army ;)
J
From: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: Re: Decisions you regret Was: Mystery IC: Allen Bradley
> From: Brent Hilpert
> I threw out a print-only selectric a few years ago ... Regret it now,
> just because it would have been fun to figure it out. C'est
> On Dec 16, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Robert Jarratt
> wrote:
>
>> ...
>> Similarly, there are manuals I used to have that have disappeared; many of
>> those exist elsewhere so I can still get the data, but some I have not
> seen.
>> CDC Algol 68 manual? CDC 7054 buffer controller programming manual?
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Paul
> Koning
> Sent: 16 December 2015 17:12
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Decisions you regret Was: Mystery IC: Allen Bradley 314B102
>
From: Jay West
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 7:57 AM
> After a time my parents ordered them out of the house and a "friend" agreed
> to store them. A few weeks after moving them to his house, he informed me
> that he gave them away and wouldn't tell me to who/where.
Apparently they've never
On 12/16/2015 11:01 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
Anywho, I was looking at a couple of 19" racks containing
an odd computer of some sort. Had this funny square
keyboard, and what looked like LINCTapes to me. Looked
kinda "home brew", using DEC Flip Chips. Well a couple of
years later I saw a photo of
There are similar regrets on a smaller scale. I have one or two of the
programs I wrote early on, in listing form. Most I did not save, nor did I
save paper tapes or card decks. I have none of the OS/360 programs I wrote in
college -- rather unfortunate because there were some unusual things
On 12/16/2015 9:17 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > From: Brent Hilpert
>
> > I threw out a print-only selectric a few years ago ... Regret it now,
> > just because it would have been fun to figure it out. C'est la vie.
>
> I can top that.
>
> MIT offered me (as a gift) the PDP-11/45 that
On 16 December 2015 at 15:17, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> the time (I was on the IESG at that point) to deal with arranging to get it
> shipped down to me. They gave it to someone else, and near as I can work
> out,
> eventually it got scrapped.
>
> Every time I think about it I kick myself... Sigh!
>
Noel wrote
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Every time I think about it I kick myself... Sigh!
Although I suspect a lot of people here have stories like that...
-
Yeah Noel, we all do. I had a couple different really great machines offered
to me long before I got into collecting. A DG nova 3
> From: Brent Hilpert
> I threw out a print-only selectric a few years ago ... Regret it now,
> just because it would have been fun to figure it out. C'est la vie.
I can top that.
MIT offered me (as a gift) the PDP-11/45 that I used to run; it included a
pair of CalComp 50MB drives,
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