On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 05:06:42PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 10/22/2014 07:17 PM, Fulko Hew issued this missive:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Kevin Cummings
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/22/2014 08:31 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > >
> > > Back in the day (late 70's), we had a "VCC". Clever reuse of the
> > > nomenclature for the primary voltage supply to a chip, but in this
> > case
> > > it meant "Valley Computer Club". This was when we used to
> > wire-wrap our
> > > own circuit boards and the Zilog Z80 was brand-spankin' new!
> > >
> > > "Geeze! It runs at 4 MHz? And you have 32K of static RAM? Wow!"
> >
> > Been there, done that, (still) got the IMSAI.
> >
> >
> > Been there, done that too, got the tee shirt, (still got the Altair!)
>
> I still have the Imsai, Altair, Poly88, Cromemco, Sol20, Vector88 and a
> bunch of other very weird stuff (Tarbell ACI, ASR33 teletype, OpLabs
> paper tape reader, etc., etc.)
Say, does anyone of you hoard... er, I mean archivists have any DEC
equipment with a 8 inch RX01 or RX02 floppy drive (or equivalent) ??
if so, I've got a few RT-11 SSSD floppies I'd like to have imaged, if
you feel like helping out a fellow hoarder. lemme know.
Fred
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