all the 3000 stuff too? sorry to hear that Al.. back in the 80s would visit
him nice guy glad to hear he is,still alive. ed#
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From: Al Kossow via cctalk
To: cctalk
Sent: Sat, Jan 26, 2019 07:49 PM
Subject: Re: OT Parts houses & scrappers
On 1/26/19 5:40 PM,
Hi again Andrew,
Sorry for the techno-toys reference, and it wasn’t meant to be offensive,
which I’m sure you understand as I couldn’t know it would be to you. I
try to keep things light because I spent a very serious career in the
military, including membership on teams with nuclear weapons rel
It was thus said that the Great Grant Taylor via cctalk once stated:
> On 1/26/19 6:26 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
> >Learning how to judge scrap value is the first thing to do. Do research
> >and gain experience.
>
> That sounds all well and good. Until you something unexpected and
On 1/26/19 5:40 PM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote:
> Is Larry at Crisis computer still around?
He is in Sacramento. Most of what he had was scrapped 15 years ago.
A large number of Bay Area people were involved in saving what could be saved.
I ended up with a lot of 9000/300 stuff. I didn't go
Is Larry at Crisis computer still around?
Jay used to know him too back years ago.
Ed#
In a message dated 1/26/2019 6:35:21 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:
> That sounds all well and good. Until you something unexpected and
> unknown when you are at an auction
> That sounds all well and good. Until you something unexpected and
> unknown when you are at an auction for something else. There's only so
> much self education you can do on a smart phone 10 minutes before the
> auction.
Start now with the research. You can gain quite a lot knowledge from
the
I spoke with Mike, last year, around the time they were closing their
doors. I'm fuzzy on the details, now, but dimly recall something about
them possibly trying to hold on to much of the stock, despite losing
the warehouse, with the possibility of reopening in some shape or
form.
With that said,
On 1/26/19 6:26 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
Learning how to judge scrap value is the first thing to do. Do research
and gain experience.
That sounds all well and good. Until you something unexpected and
unknown when you are at an auction for something else. There's only so
much s
> I'm referring to times when I have absolutely no idea what is
> reasonable.
Learning how to judge scrap value is the first thing to do. Do
research and gain experience.
--
Will
On 1/26/19 6:02 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
With that attitude, you will lose a lot more deals than you win.
...
Don't be a cheapskate, basically.
I think I came across wrong.
I'm not trying to be a cheapskate. I have no objection at all to paying
reasonable amounts that the mar
> I would think knowing a minimum scrap value plus some reasonable
> handling fees would be for things when conducting such deals.
With that attitude, you will lose a lot more deals than you win.
You have to beat scrap price by a *substantial* amount. You need to
convince the dealer (or scrapper)
If anyone can use any of the M/E/F-Series board, I have the following..
feel free to contract need anything
02100-60060 Terminal
02102-60001 Memory Controller
02102-60002 Mem Controller
02102-62010 Mem Cont 2120E
02108-67007 9-slot Backplane
02112-60001
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 9:48 AM Jay West via cctech
wrote:
>
> Kudos to Jesse for working with me offlist, I feel I've gotten a good deal. I
> appreciate the offers to help purchase, very much, but I got this taken care
> of directly with Jesse and I'm happy.
>
> We have to understand, as others
Glad to Hear Jay - I guess the timeshare systems were about the only
thing I ever saw those board sets in.
ok~To refile my slightly prior message under perhaps a better title
I have one foot in each HP community The real production one and the
Collection of vintage HP
I've been reading all this hot air blowing around since Jesse first posted.
I feel that _maybe_ a non-thing has turned into a big thing for no good reason.
There's no prize at the end of all this, it's lose-lose for everybody
concerned.
If people were so concerned about Jesse selling precious
Holly smokes... 1st, Cindy thanks for calling me and vouching for me on
this list but let me clear something up here
A. the ebay ads are mine and I put all content up there.
B. there reflects different locations (Largo, Clearwater, Land o lakes)
all around the Tampa area. We have been in th
Kudos to Jesse for working with me offlist, I feel I've gotten a good deal. I
appreciate the offers to help purchase, very much, but I got this taken care of
directly with Jesse and I'm happy.
We have to understand, as others pointed out, that if no one speaks up for
stuff at a price that can k
On Jan 25, 2019, at 6:07 AM, Lee Courtney via cctech wrote:
> FYI on the HP 3000 and 9000 systems make sure you get one that has a field
> replaceable clock battery. Some early models did not (e.g. 917) and after a
> few years the system becomes a brick. :-(
Yes, the DS1287 is soldered to the b
I have one foot in each HP community The real production one and the
Collection of vintage HP Gear one.
I have had no complaints about Jesse from the People the do data
processing with HP machines and have always found him to be friendly and
timely in responses.
This goes f
On 1/25/19 10:35 AM, Jay West via cctech wrote:
We have to understand, as others pointed out, that if no one speaks up
for stuff at a price that can keep the parts houses in business then the
parts won't be around. By the same token, the parts houses have to know
we can't pay typical full price
> On Jan 20, 2019, at 7:11 PM, Will Cooke via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Jack Ganssle wrote a couple of articles about memory testing and failure
> modes...
> http://www.ganssle.com/articles/aramrom.htm
> http://www.ganssle.com/articles/ramtest.htm
Thanks for the pointers, Will; I found the article
On 1/26/19 10:15 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> what a collossal waste of time
>
after holding my nose and signing up for 'deskauthority' to find this out
On 1/26/19 7:10 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> If not, are we now
> supposed to call instead?
looks like it.
the cherry pickers picked.
what a collossal waste of time
>> From: Paul Koning
>
>> Was the 11/74 ever shipped?
>
> I don't think so. (Well, I vaguely recall rumours of a couple going out on
> beta-test; too busy to chase down where I saw that.)
>
> Noel
According to my recollection some PDP-11/74 systems were shipped up to a power
company in C
> On Jan 24, 2019, at 8:44 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>> Don't forget the quad-height /73 board, it's much nicer than the
>> dual-height boards.
>
> That's the KDJ11-B, no? That's there.
Okay, I obviously missed it.
>> Is a /44 really worth that much now?!?!
>
> Hey, one just
> From: Electronics Plus
> I did not bring the stuff home. ... Call John Adler ... he owns the
> stuff in the sheds.
Now I am completely confused. What happened to the online spread-sheet that
some of us filled out? Did that go to him? If so, does the fact that we've
heard nothing mea
On 2019-01-26 08:45, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk wrote:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 4:59 AM Warner Losh via cctalk
wrote:
In Japanese, but interesting.
http://www.geocities.jp/kugimoto0715/index.html
Talks about interfacing old school high current 5V interfaces like FDD
or
SASI/SCSI into into
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 4:59 AM Warner Losh via cctalk
wrote:
>
> In Japanese, but interesting.
>
> http://www.geocities.jp/kugimoto0715/index.html
>
> Talks about interfacing old school high current 5V interfaces like FDD or
> SASI/SCSI into into lower voltage lower current RPI pins.
>
> Warner
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 08:58:46PM -0700, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> In Japanese, but interesting.
> http://www.geocities.jp/kugimoto0715/index.html
> Talks about interfacing old school high current 5V interfaces like FDD or
> SASI/SCSI into into lower voltage lower current RPI pins.
Converti
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