Subject: Re: Warehouse load of antique

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 14:40:10 GMT

Here's an update on the antique collection.  The pile has been picked
over, but much of the stuff remains.

>  1) A Charles River Universe 68 system
	This system has found a good home, in Pittsburgh, filling
	a longstanding hole in a collection.

>  2) A PDP-11/04 with a TFI disk controller
	This system is still available.  TFI is a Cedar Rapids Iowa
	company that apparently built the glue to hang off-brand
	peripherals onto PDP-11 systems and then sold them to
	small businesses.  The disk controller is all wire-wrap
	construction, with socketed IC chips.

>  3) A TRS 80 Model II system, with printer on a stand, etc.
	Still available.

>  4) An IBM 5224 line printer and 2 IBM 5251 data display terminals.
	Still available -- we're tracking down the local System 36
	consultant who knows all the local System 36 users.

>  5) A Singer Programmatic Flexowriter 2201 and Selectadata box.
	I took it.  You should have seen the look on my wife's
	face when I brought it home.  And getting the thing out
	of my van was murder.  Flexowriters weigh a ton!
	I'll see if I can get it working, but I'll gladly send it
	to a museum, if it's wanted and if I can figure out how
	to get it there for less than an arm and a leg!

>  6) Two Burroughs L6000 accounting machines.
	Still available.  These are desk sized monsters, and they're
	very likely to be valuable additions to a museum collection,
	as illustrations of the transistion in small business data
	processing from dedicated accounting machines to general
	purpose computers.

>  7) An NCR electromechanical accounting machine.
	Still available, still a nice museum piece.

>  8) A pile of old power supplies, dumb terminals, and electronics scrap.
	Greatly diminished.  Most of the working terminals are gone.

9) In going through the pile of stuff last night, we found another printer,
	a nice IBM PC compatable dot-matrix printer with a stock of ribbons.

10) There's also a Singer Fridden accounting machine, comparable to the
	NCR machine (item 7).

Jeff Ollie and I have both volunteered to help find homes for this stuff.
Contact him at [email-masked], or contact me, or call the owner of
the stuff (Paul McKeen, (319)-337-2035).

					Doug Jones
					[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan Levine)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 16:01:13 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Eric J. Korpela) writes:

>Eric Korpela                        |  The two most common things in the
>[email-masked]            |  universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
>                                    |        -Harlan Ellison

Actually, I saw a variation of this signature attributed to Frank Zappa, who
was quoted as saying "Stupidity is like hydrogen.  It's a basic building
block of the universe."

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