Weekend finds!

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Sun Nov 22 19:41:52 1998

  I went to the Tampa hamfest this weekend and ran into Phil Clayton. I
also came home with two new toys. A HP 9835A and a LOADED Tektronix 4051!

   Unfortunately both of these need some serious restoration! The CRT in
the HP is really messed up. It has all kinds of small spots inside the
glass of the CRT except for a spot about 3" across in the center. I haven't
tried it yet but I doubt that I'll be able to read anything except directly
in the center of the screen. I also got a HP 13272 5 1/4" disk drive with
it.

  I don't know much about the Tektronix, except that it's a very old 4051
Graphics computer. I got two Tek 4097 8" disk drive cabinets with it. One
cabinet contains a single drive and the other contains two drives. The
4051 has two sockets in the back for plug in ROMs but also I got a separate
box that plugs into the 4051 and holds 10 plug in ROMs. I think it's got 6
ROMs in it including the service ROM. While I was at the hamfest I was
lucky enough to find brand new manuals for two of the ROMs. One is the
Signal Processing ROM I and the other is the Signal Processing ROM II
(FFT). I'm SUPPOSED to get a stack of manuals for the system too. I left
behind the plotter that went with the system. It was a monsterous Tektronix
flat bed job that must have measured 5 x 6 FEET!!!

   Joe
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