"Single instance" machines

From: Richard W. Schauer <rws_at_eagle.ais.net>
Date: Wed Dec 9 22:33:52 1998

> >What about machines that almost everyone has, but a few don't? I don't
> >have a Vic20, for example, which is probably pretty unusual.

I haven't got one either, but someone promised me one if they ever find it
in their closet.

I seem to be pretty good at picking up orphan junk- try these:

- Point Four Data Systems Mark 3 mini (4* 2903) with CDC Lark 25/25 drive.
- Litton Monroe 7860. Micro with hinge-up cover, full sheet printer
(shove the paper into the side of the machine and it prints it and spits
it back out), fluorescent display, and minicassette drive (not standard,
not micro, somewhere in between.) 8085 based.
- Wang OIS-60X word processing server and terminals. Z80.
- CPT 8525 word processor. 8080.
- NCR UNIX Tower. Don't know yet.
- All sorts of Intel and Teradyne Multibus cards (8080, 8088, 8086, 80188,
80186, 80286), and a Microlink STD-145 card (8085, STD bus).

The biggest problem with oddball junk is doing something useful with it.
Most of the above are of somewhat limited utility to me because they're
so obscure and hard to find stuff for (like the little cassettes or
cartridges for the Monroe).

Anyone else have a Diablo hardcopy terminal, the kind that looks like a
typewriter sitting on a desk, but it's actually a part of the desk, and
the desk contains a big cardcage with boards full of 7400-series logic?
I forget the model number offhand and it's a block away from here.

Richard Schauer
rws_at_ais.net
Received on Wed Dec 09 1998 - 22:33:52 GMT