First, congratulations from us :-)
Reading your blog, I'm glad that we did not win the auction. We simply do
not have the time and space (and money) to handle this, especially the
effort needed to get everything out of the house. I and Klemens both have
jobs that require us to do other things besides the museum ;-)
On Mon, 20 May 2019, Lawrence Wilkinson wrote:
There was one 360/20 (pink) that was cabled up with 2 x 2311 disk, 2 x 2415
tape, 2560 MFCM and (I think) the 1403 printer. That system appears to have
been in use at that site. The second 360/20 (blue) was not cabled to
anything, and the 370/125 (yellow) likewise. So I expect neither of those was
used at all.
Am I right that the 370/125 is missing something? At least there is
one yellow unit that is lacking the top half (or whatever).
These need to be read - I know there are services that will process scans,
but is there anywhere (UK/Europe) that can take the physical cards and give
us back files?
Yes, we can (located in Stuttgart, not too far from Nuremburg). We've done
that with all cards that we got. Our setup uses the 1442 card reader on
the 1130 and a program that reads the cards and sends them via V.24 (with
a home-made tape punch interface to V.24 converter) to be captured by a
UNIX machine.
The guys did a wonderful job, especially on that last day when they managed
to move most of the units and clear everything out. As mentioned, the /20
CPUs and 2415 master unit were 500-600kg each and about the limit of the
tail-lift.
I'm curious, did everything fit in a normal 7.5t truck or how do you move
all the stuff to the UK?
Christian
