Today's haul and HP heads-up..

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Wed Sep 2 09:57:11 1998

John Lawson <jpl15_at_netcom.com> wrote:
> (2) 7914 disk drive units, one damaged in fall.

I'm thinking these are largish floor-standing units (about half
washing-machine size) good for about 120MB. They could have cartridge
tape drives in them too, do they?

> An HP Systems cab with (1) 9144 and (2) 3000.

9144 is an HP cartridge tape drive.

A 3000 in that sort of cabinet is probably a Series 37 or Micro 3000,
a little departmental system good for about eight terminals. Should
have a key for the front panel and I hope it's there because
fabricating it could be a problem (it is a small metal strip with
indentations drilled in but not through its larger faces).

> (1) 2563A LIne Printer. (Very nice condition)

300LPM printer, could be serial or HP-IB or maybe parallel (with a
50-pin telco connector) though I only remember the parallel on its
bigger faster cousins. If serial, it would be usable with other
things; I think it speaks something like PCL but certainly not the PCL
of the many-DPI printers. Used to use one as a remote serial printer
hung off a 3000 and it was very reliable.

> SoCal area HP collectors.... any Interest??? Anyone? I have more
> than my share of non-DEC orpans now... heeellpppp....

I'm not quite SoCal (a little bit north of San Jose) and won't be able
to make it down there for a little while. Plus IDDD (I Don't Do DEC)
and so don't have any of the stuff you're interested in for a swap.
Also I have two 3000/37s of my own. So I won't be hurt if someone
else gets 'em, in fact that's part of the reason I am writing this
message, to help other folks down there figure out what this stuff is.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Wed Sep 02 1998 - 09:57:11 BST