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I have Nicolet 1080. It is a 20 bit computer and has 12Kx20 core memory. To my knowledge, there are only 5 of these remaining in existence. Only 375 were said to have been made. Mine is mostly working but the last time I ran it, it had disk problems. I need to debug it. Dwight

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I just gave away my pride and joy: an AT&T 3B2 1000 in perfect condition with just about every accessory you could want and fully configured. It was a dual processor system, and fully maxed out with RAM and ports. It had an ethernet card and SCSI, I collected boards and documentation for many year

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I'd have to say my VAX 6000-600. It has six processors, and therefore is alternatively known as the VAX 6660 - the Devil's VAX. :-) I've not been able to boot it because I don't have three-phase power to my house. However, I've been informed that the H405 can be rewired to run correctly off drye

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On 01/10/2017 02:09 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - > What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? > > For me, personally, I have a Altair 8800! > > Looking forward to hearing your answers That's a t

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It would have to be the Polycorp Ploy 1, I obtained recently. http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2016-10-9-poly-acquisition.htm http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2017-01-08-second-poly1-fix.htm This is a New Zealand designed and manufactured computer, and although I know of a museum

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On 01/10/2017 04:09 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: Hi Everyone! I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? I don't know if it qualifies as computer-related or not, but I do have a Burroughs adding machine from Jan

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On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Andy Cloud wrote: I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? 64Kbit core plane from an AN/FSQ-7 (SAGE) computer: http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/SAGE/Coreplane-1L.jpg ...along

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Wow, that must have taken a lot of will power to give that up. If I had it, I'm not sure I could have done that. It's none of my business, but..fingers crossed.that your 3b2 stuff made it to Seth Morabito, the gentleman who is working on the 3b2 emulator project and is in need of hard

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Probably my rarest setup is the Tandy 6000 HD with Xenix and working Bernoulli disk cartridge backup system. https://youtu.be/mM1IH8frd_U Pete > On Jan 10, 2017, at 5:09 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: > > Hi Everyone! > > I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the > ra

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Although not yet physically in my possession (I still have to “pick it up” for large values of “pick up”) my rarest/most unusual system is an IBM 4331 with all of it’s related peripherals. Specifically it includes: * IBM 4331 CPU with 1MB of RAM * 4 IBM 3340 drives (w 12 70MB winchester packs) *

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017, Peter Cetinski wrote: > Probably my rarest setup is the Tandy 6000 HD with Xenix and working > Bernoulli disk cartridge backup system. > > https://youtu.be/mM1IH8frd_U Nice video. That font looks an awful lot like the one in the 80-column Commodore PET/CBMs; I wonder if the

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017, Eric Christopherson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017, Peter Cetinski wrote: > > Probably my rarest setup is the Tandy 6000 HD with Xenix and working > > Bernoulli disk cartridge backup system. > > > > https://youtu.be/mM1IH8frd_U > > Nice video. That font looks an awful lot li

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Somewhere I have (misplaced) a BCROS card from a 360/50. Beautiful, intriguing thing... haven't seen it in years unfortunately. Also a pair of earrings made from two IBM 1403 chain printer type slugs my dad made for my mother many decades ago, long before 'retro tech jewellery' became a thing.

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DIGITAL TRAINERS TUBE TYPE - IBM Digital trainer - uses the earliest of IBM plug in tube things that were in their commercial systytems http://www.smecc.org/video/logic_5.gif IF ANYONE CAN SHED LIGHT ON THIS IT WOULD BE FANTASTIC! SOLID STATE - DEC COMPUTER LAB with the pdp-8 I tog

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That is amazing Ian ! - Photo? Wonder what the ticket was for that back in its new day... Ed# In a message dated 1/10/2017 4:27:44 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, isk...@uw.edu writes: I'd have to say my VAX 6000-600. It has six processors, and therefore is alternatively known a

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: > I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the > rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? > My rarest item is probably an IBM System/360 nameplate, the type that was attached on top of a console. It

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On 2017-Jan-10, at 2:09 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the > rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? > > For me, personally, I have a Altair 8800! > > Looking forward to hearing your answers How a

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On January 10, 2017 5:29:00 PM CST, Chuck Guzis wrote: >On 01/10/2017 02:09 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: >> Hi Everyone! >> >> I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - >> What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? >> >> For me, personally, I have a Altair

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s than 15 seconds with the old MFM hard drive as source. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of Chris Elmquist Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 6:47:34 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts; Chuck Guzis Subject: Re: What's the rarest or most u

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On Jan 10, 2017 9:49 PM, "Chris Elmquist" wrote: > > On January 10, 2017 5:29:00 PM CST, Chuck Guzis wrote: > >On 01/10/2017 02:09 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: > >> Hi Everyone! > >> > >> I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - > >> What's the rarest or most unusual computer-rela

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On 1/10/17 3:29 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 01/10/2017 02:09 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: Hi Everyone! I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? For me, personally, I have a Altair 8800! Looking forward to heari

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Off the top of my head, here's a whimsical little oddball - the Passez-Sonna Floppy Clock: http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/modern-floppy-disc-clock-passez-sonna-430407608 Mine has a red, white & blue 'stars & stripes' (US flag) motif printed on it, but is otherwise identical. It's the only

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On 01/10/2017 04:09 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: Hi Everyone! I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? For me, personally, I have a Altair 8800! Looking forward to hearing your answers I have a Honeywell Aler

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OK, I have some TINY core planes out of a Honeywell system. One unit was a tape drive, the other a line printer. These were hooked together to make an off-line print despooler. I got it working enough to analyze the signals, and then wrote a driver and built an interface to my S-100 Z-80 sys

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On 01/10/2017 06:01 PM, Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote: Although not yet physically in my possession (I still have to “pick it up” for large values of “pick up”) my rarest/most unusual system is an IBM 4331 with all of it’s related peripherals. Specifically it includes: * IBM 4331 CPU with 1MB of RAM

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Cray J932SE Original paper copies of Dvorak newsletters and software catalogs that came with my IMSAI 8080. Prices for Microsoft BASIC and all that. I'd imagine the paperwork is more rare than the system. There are color brochures for some other systems like vectorgraph as well. I should chec

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I have an Acorn Prophet - a machine that no-one I've met seems to even know ever existed. It's a re-badged or re-worked Acorn Atom targetted at the commercial market. ("Profit", geddit?) I don't know if they were ever sold. I was gven it during one of Acorn's regular junk clearings when I worke

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On 01/10/2017 05:09 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the > rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? > > For me, personally, I have a Altair 8800! > > Looking forward to hearing your answers > >> _Andy I h

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I don't know how rare some of these are but I'm told they are: 1) Original Mark-8 board set. (Think there are less than 20 Mark-8s/board sets out there currently) 2) Tektronix 6800 Board Bucket (probably even less than above?) 3) Digital Group Z80 and 8080 systems + 2 cassette Phideck 4) Videobr

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On 01/10/2017 09:58 PM, Brad H wrote: > Am envying the Altair guys though. I want one but they always come > up at just the wrong time. I've still got the 8800 I built (with all those crappy white stranded wires) back in the day. It's not that great, trust me. I moved to an IMSAI box and final

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Original message From: Chuck Guzis Date: 2017-01-10 11:24 PM (GMT-08:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Subject: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you   own? On 01/10/2017 09:58 PM, Brad H wrote: &

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only surviving model of a phillips p1000 On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:58 PM, Brad H < vintagecompu...@bettercomputing.net> wrote: > I don't know how rare some of these are but I'm told they are: > > 1) Original Mark-8 board set. (Think there are less than 20 Mark-8s/board > sets out there current

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On 2017-Jan-10, at 11:37 PM, Brad H wrote: > Original message > From: Chuck Guzis > Date: 2017-01-10 11:24 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > > Subject: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual com

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On 11/01/2017 04:16, "Graham Toal" wrote: > I have an Acorn Prophet - a machine that no-one I've met seems to even > know ever existed. It's a re-badged or re-worked Acorn Atom targetted > at the commercial market. ("Profit", geddit?) > > I don't know if they were ever sold. I was gven it dur

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On 01/10/2017 09:50 PM, allison wrote: > On 01/10/2017 05:09 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: >> Hi Everyone! >> >> I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the >> rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? >> >> For me, personally, I have a Altair 8800! >> >> Looki

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Hi Jon, thanks for your mail - the Alert looks interesting (I also collect such vintage Ex-MIL gear). I have a Honeywell Alert. It is a 24-bit aircraft computer that was originally designed for the X-15 project. It was the 2nd "mass-produced" computer in the US to use ICs. The first was th

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Hi together! Really an impressive amount of replies and quite cool equipment which gets preserver all over the world! Really great! From my side I have various MIL-SPEC gear. (1) First of all an intertial navigation system Ferranti FIN1010 from the early 1970ties containing an archaic bitser

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> From: Eric Smith > I have a computer of the type that Gates and Allen used for that early > development. :-) > I don't have it running, though. Really? Which model processor; KA, KI, KL? Noel PS: Apparently Gates and Allen at one point rented time on a commercial servi

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On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Andy Cloud wrote: > I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the > rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? I have a (non functioning) Tandy sixteen channel 300 baud Mux for their Videotex system. Don't have the software to mak

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 6:44 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote: > Wow, that must have taken a lot of will power to give that up. If I had it, > I'm not sure I could have done that. It was a bit of a challenge :) It's probably the best example of such a system still in existence, though I don't really know t

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On 01/11/2017 06:58 AM, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi Jon, thanks for your mail - the Alert looks interesting (I also collect such vintage Ex-MIL gear). I have a Honeywell Alert. It is a 24-bit aircraft computer that was originally designed for the X-15 project. It was the 2nd "mass-produced" com

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On 01/11/2017 07:03 AM, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi together! Really an impressive amount of replies and quite cool equipment which gets preserver all over the world! Really great! From my side I have various MIL-SPEC gear. (1) First of all an intertial navigation system Ferranti FIN1010 from th

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On 1/10/2017 5:29 PM, dwight wrote: I have Nicolet 1080. It is a 20 bit computer and has 12Kx20 core memory. To my knowledge, there are only 5 of these remaining in existence. Only 375 were said to have been made. Mine is mostly working but the last time I ran it, it had disk problems. I ne

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:09 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the > rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? > > For me, personally, I have a Altair 8800! > > Looking forward to hearing your answers No

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Hi Jon, thanks for your email and the positive words... On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, Jon Elson wrote: On 01/11/2017 07:03 AM, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi together! Really an impressive amount of replies and quite cool equipment which gets preserver all over the world! Really great! From my side I ha

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On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, Jon Elson wrote: I should take some pics. I have a set of EMM core units in a matching 1/2 Indeed, this would be very nice. ATR box that I'm pretty sure went with it. Apparently on mission critical applications, they used BiAx which was non-destructive readout. So

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I have several computers from the 60s and 70s but oddest thing what I have got is this: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/114704705421528969208/albums/6114938694824762945/6374409873912794402?pid=6374409873912794402&oid=114704705421528969208 It is panel from ES EVM, Russian version of IBM 360/

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4:43 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? On 1/10/2017 5:29 PM, dwight wrote: > I have Nicolet 1080. It is a 20 bit computer and has > > 12Kx20 core memory. > > To my knowle

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> On Jan 11, 2017, at 1:00 PM, cctech-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote: > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 22:09:52 + > From: Andy Cloud mailto:r3tro...@gmail.com>> > To: "cctalk@classiccmp.org " > mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> > Subject: What's the rarest or m

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From: Noel Chiappa Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 5:40 AM >> From: Eric Smith >> I have a computer of the type that Gates and Allen used for that early >> development. :-) >> I don't have it running, though. > Really? Which model processor; KA, KI, KL? Eric's got a KL. If he had a KA, I wou

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In a message dated 1/11/2017 2:01:05 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, ri...@livingcomputers.org writes: From: Noel Chiappa Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 5:40 AM >> From: Eric Smith >> I have a computer of the type that Gates and Allen used for that early >> development. :-) >> I don't

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I guess for me, the value is less in bits of hardware than it is in ephemera. My original S/360 green folding pocket card, for instance, or any number of handwritten engineering design documents. Lots of old manuals. Probably not rare, but significant to me. --Chuck

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On Jan 11, 2017 6:40 AM, "Noel Chiappa" wrote: > Really? Which model processor; KA, KI, KL? One KL (2065), two KS.

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On Jan 11, 2017 2:01 PM, "Rich Alderson" wrote: > Eric's got a KL. If he had a KA, I would have tracked him down and beaten > him to a pulp to lay hands on it--and we're friends. And I would even endorse such a course of action. If I had a KA10 and wasn't running it myself, I would have provided

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My most obscure (though far from rare, as no one has ever heard of them) is a Gnat System 10: (a picture at) https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_gnatComputhure1979_7760927 Z-80 (4MHz if I recall on mine) with SCSI (Perhaps SASI at the time) interface, lots of parallel and serial connectors o

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> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: > >> I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the >> rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? >> The rarest is probably my Commodore 65 which in the last couple of years has decided to become unwe

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I wasn't even aware of the LCM until this thread.. thanks guys! Always wanted to go to CHM but it's in California, a long way from here. LCM is much closer and I like the concept better given that they operate stuff. I'm thinking eventually my collection will go to a museum somewhere, LCM see

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Brad H Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 4:45:02 PM To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? I wasn't even aware of the LCM until this thread.. thanks guys! Always wanted to g

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On 1/11/17 4:45 PM, Brad H wrote: > I wasn't even aware of the LCM until this thread You mean "Living Computer: Museum + Labs" ? http://www.livingcomputers.org/ They just changed their name.

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sigh.. even proofreading I got it wrong Living Computers: Museum + Labs On 1/11/17 5:34 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > On 1/11/17 4:45 PM, Brad H wrote: >> I wasn't even aware of the LCM until this thread > > You mean "Living Computer: Museum + Labs" ? > http://www.livingcomputers.org/ > > They j

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: > I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the > rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? It's interesting to see the wide variety of answers. Mine is: a working PLATO terminal -- orange plasma pane

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On Jan 11, 2017 9:00 PM, "Paul Koning" wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: > > > I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the > > rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? > > It's interesting to see the wide variety of answer

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On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:34:51 -0800 Al Kossow wrote: > On 1/11/17 4:45 PM, Brad H wrote: > > I wasn't even aware of the LCM until this thread > > You mean "Living Computer: Museum + Labs" ? > http://www.livingcomputers.org/ > > They just changed their name. Thanks - didn't know that... Good

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On 01/11/2017 11:23 AM, Erik Baigar wrote: So your core memory is indeed a BIAX one? Have never seen one in a real system and that would really make the machine a very very unique combination. No, this particular one appears to be plain core, so I guess the one I have was not in a mission

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I also have an Allen-Bradley 7320, a CNC machine tool control. The heart of it is a 7300 "industrial processor" 16-bit minicomputer. I used it for a year or so to run a retrofitted Bridgeport milling machine, but got tired of it breaking down, which it did fairly often. Once I got EMC from

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On 2017-01-10 17:09, Andy Cloud wrote: Hi Everyone! I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? For me, personally, I have a Altair 8800! Looking forward to hearing your answers _Andy It's not as old

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Rich Alderson wrote: > Eric's got a KL. If he had a KA, I would have tracked him down and > beaten him to a pulp to lay hands on it--and we're friends. This is the third time in a few weeks that I've seen people eagerly looking for a KA10. Is someone pulling strings behind the scenes? CIA wants

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Eric Smith wrote: > The only part of a KA that I have is the main console switch and light > panel. The leadperson for the film Swordfish wanted to rent it from me, but > we weren't able to reach an agreement. I have yet to see the film. I think there's only about ten seconds worth of PDP-10 good

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> On Jan 11, 2017, at 9:30 PM, william degnan wrote: > > On Jan 11, 2017 9:00 PM, "Paul Koning" wrote: >> ... >> Mine is: a working PLATO terminal -- orange plasma panel -- skillfully > restored to full operating condition by Aaron Woolfson. It's connected to > a PLATO system I brought back to

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Here's another little item that I have, though I'm not sure if it's rare. I can't figure out what it actually came from, but it's a UNIVAC branded drawer pull (I believe). I imagine it came from something like a console desk, though I've scoured photos of various UNIVACs and haven't seen anything e

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On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 4:11 PM, Andy Cloud wrote: I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? An HP9845C, loaded, except missing the PSU.  I got it from an HP repair shop that had used it to rep

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Opposite end of the size scale: Epson RC-20 wristwatch with Z80 equivalent, RAM, ROM, serial port katakana - not exported to USA

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/85127208@N05/7799377360/in/photostream Not sure if this URL will share properly but this is one item I'd love to hear if anyone knows about. Definitely one of my most unusual prices however I bought it from a fellow collector and he got it from a friend's pawn shop f

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A selection of some of my more unusual computer-related stuff: - A Tektronix 4132 Unix workstation using a National 32016 CPU and a 4.2bsd port called UTek - A Digital Equipment PDP 8/e system with 2 RK05 drives, high speed paper tape reader/punch, RX01 Dual 8" floppy drives, 16K of DEC core

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I have an nCube2 with the front-end Sun 4/470, card, cable and software. I think having a complete system is probably reasonably uncommon. I have no documentation on the thing at all, though, so I've never actually powered it up. If anyone has anything, I'd love to hear from you. Certainly le

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Given the topic, I have this rather *unique* punch card reader, if you want to call it that. It is marked EAI but that's where the trail turns cold. Perhaps used as a microcode source? All holes are read simultaneously via individual switches. If someone has seen one before, please speak up. -C h

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Cory Heisterkamp wrote: > Given the topic, I have this rather *unique* punch card reader, if you want > to call it that. It is marked EAI but that's where the trail turns cold. > Perhaps used as a microcode source? All holes are read simultaneously via > individual

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On Thu, 12 Jan 2017, Cory Heisterkamp wrote: Given the topic, I have this rather *unique* punch card reader, if you want to call it that. It is marked EAI but that's where the trail turns cold. Perhaps used as a microcode source? All holes are read simultaneously via individual switches. If someo

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I've been following this topic, and suddenly realised… that I don't actually have any particularly rare or unusual items – the nearest I can think of is a Commodore N-60 navigation calculator, but I also have two early Apple IIs. If I can mention items that I have owned, the list becomes slightl

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gt; To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you > own? > > Given the topic, I have this rather *unique* punch card reader, if you want to > call it that. It is marked EAI but that's wher

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ses. These couldn't be more different. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of Cory Heisterkamp Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 12:10:33 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do

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I saved one of the MIT CADR top-of-rack plates (the one with the logo and a sticker from the lab on it). Me and peter recently discovered he saved the rest of the box. Will probably reunite at some point :-) Cheers Leif

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On 01/12/2017 11:19 AM, Sam O'nella wrote: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/85127208@N05/7799377360/in/photostream > Not sure if this URL will share properly but this is one item I'd > love to hear if anyone knows about. Definitely one of my most unusual > prices however I bought it from a fellow c

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Anyone ever heard of the GTE IS1000? On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 01/12/2017 11:19 AM, Sam O'nella wrote: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/85127208@N05/7799377360/in/photostream > > Not sure if this URL will share properly but this is one item I'd > > love to hear if

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Given the topic, I have this rather *unique* punch card reader, if you want to call it that. It is marked EAI but that's where the trail turns cold. EAI is Electronic Associates Inc. based here on the NJ shore. They made analog computers.

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On 1/12/2017 12:49 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/a-wang704.pdf http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/wang360.html I recently picked up a Wang 174 from a list member (via ebay), and also have a Wang 320K nixie head, no electronics. thanks Jim

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EAI also made drum memories too I believe... ANYTHING EAI is cool! Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 1/12/2017 2:26:08 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cct...@snarc.net writes: > Given the topic, I have this rather *unique* punch card reader, if you want > to

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

Original message From: Rick Bensene Date: 2017-01-12 11:49 AM (GMT-08:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Subject: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you   own? A selection of some of my more unusual c

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Rarest: Computer Control Company (3C, later Honeywell) DDP-116 minicomputer (2 complete, 1 missing front panel) Discrete germanium transistors, first 16-bit minicomputer, first of the Honeywell "Series 16" line.    Provenance of machines is NRAO Green Bank, controlling the Green Bank Interfe

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On 1/12/2017 3:19 PM, William Maddox wrote: Rarest: Computer Control Company (3C, later Honeywell) DDP-116 minicomputer (2 complete, 1 missing front panel) Discrete germanium transistors, first 16-bit minicomputer, first of the Honeywell "Series 16" line.Provenance of machines is NRAO G

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On Jan 12, 2017, at 4:19 PM, William Maddox wrote: > Rarest: > Computer Control Company (3C, later Honeywell) DDP-116 minicomputer (2 > complete, 1 missing front panel) > Discrete germanium transistors, first 16-bit minicomputer, first of the > Honeywell "Series 16" line.Provenance of m

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

Andy Cloud wrote on Tue, 10 Jan 2017 22:09:52 + > I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's the > rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? Stuff that I designed and built myself but wasn't produced is rare, obviously, but it is likely that this wasn

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DEC VT14 and a lot of options. Has been on my "to do" list for a few years now. On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote: > Andy Cloud wrote on Tue, 10 Jan 2017 22:09:52 + > > I thought this would be an interesting question to ask around - What's > the > > rarest or most un

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Tandy 5000 MC maybe - though it still needs a power supply rebuild and the infamous missing Reference Disk. A fully expanded 3B2/1000-80 (5 CPU + 3 MPB) that isn't as rare but it is quite fun to play with - and I do often. A few systems that are new in the box, stay in the box climate contro

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I don't have any pre-80ies stuff at all, but some cool/rare/obscure 32bit machines. If I'd have to pick a single one, I'd say it's the Motorola PowerStack E100 running Solaris 2.5.1 for powerpc. Still looking for the sun compiler for that (one of these days I'll try to resurrect the gcc port, but I

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From: "Rick Bensene" > > - A Tektronix 4132 Unix workstation using a National 32016 CPU and a > 4.2bsd port called UTek Those seem quite rare now, especially if it works. You should preserve an image of UTek if possible. Any chance you have the install media? KJ

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From: "Rick Bensene" - A Tektronix 4132 Unix workstation using a National 32016 CPU and a 4.2bsd port called UTek Gee, how does it perform? I built a clone of a Logical Microcomputer Co. 32016 Multibus system and got it working. But, it was glacially slow! I did have some memory that w

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On 14/01/17 00:06, Jon Elson wrote: I eventually got a MicroVAX-II to replace it, and, yes, that DID have a cache to speed up the memory, but it was quite a difference. I'm reasonably sure that the uVAX II did not have a memory cache. It did have a translation lookaside buffer and some (small)

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Antonio Carlini wrote: > > I'm reasonably sure that the uVAX II did not have a memory cache. It did > have a translation lookaside buffer and some (small) amount > of instruction pre-fetch though. > Digital Technical Journal, Number 2 March 1986 http://www.dtjcd.v

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On 01/13/2017 06:42 PM, Antonio Carlini wrote: On 14/01/17 00:06, Jon Elson wrote: I eventually got a MicroVAX-II to replace it, and, yes, that DID have a cache to speed up the memory, but it was quite a difference. I'm reasonably sure that the uVAX II did not have a memory cache. It did hav

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