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> 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)
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> 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!
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> 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:
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> I did a Google search on a straight eight system and found this . .
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> http://www.pdp8.net/shows/vcfe12/exhibit_small.jpg
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> 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.
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> 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
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 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.
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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
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
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> 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
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
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
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...
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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
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