Daisy computer ?????????

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Mon Jul 12 17:17:13 1999

At 09:25 AM 7/12/99 -0700, Aaron wrote:
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>I'm not *totally* against cannibalizing machines for donor parts, but in
>this case...
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>I guess it depends how much weight you give to the rarity factor when you
>calculate the value/collectability of old machines, but Cadnetix and older
>Daisy CAD stations are virtually extinct. I've spent about two years
>trying, unsuccessfully, to find *any* other information about the one I
>have. I finally tracked down one of the original engineers, a Mr. Wolfgang
>Moritz, who was trying (again unsuccessfully) to put me in touch with some
>of the people involved in the design of the system I own. I consider the
>system I have, non-operational and all, to be the most interesting system
>I own simply for the fact that it is the only one I've ever seen or even
>heard about!
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>As someone just pointed out, these machines were really the pinacle of CAD
>technology at the time of their release. Within the paperwork I got with
>mine are several invoices for the original lease; the system cost tens of
>thousands of dollars in the mid 80's. I'm not sure if you could get it to
>do anything without a monitor/kbd/etc, but I think it's worth a few
>dollars and the trouble to haul it home simply for the history and rarity
>of the machine.
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>Just my .02,
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>Aaron

   Aaron,

   In an ideal world you'd be completely right about not scrapping old
machines but it's simply not practical to rescue every odd machine out
there. I see HUNDREDS of machine being scrapped every week and a fair
number of them are unique. It's impossible to save any significant number
of them. For example, just at that one place on that one day I found the
Daisy, three HP 7906 drives, a HP 9830, a HP 9866 and a pile of Hetra
machines, a complete Sun 4/260 and two stacks of smaller Sun computers. We
got the stacks of Suns and we're trying to get the 260 and HPs. At least
if they have to go it's better that their parts be saved to repair the ones
that are left instead of being sent to the land fill.

   Joe
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