VAX 11/750!!!!

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Fri Jun 11 17:03:13 1999

At 02:06 PM 6/11/99 -0700, John Lawson wrote:
> Don't do that just yet! [give away your extras]

For me, this would have been a strange statement unless I hadn't actually
experienced it first hand. In my case I had a Q-bus controller for dual 8"
floppies from "Data Systems Design" (it was for a DSD 440) that came in a
back plane of a system that I lost its drives long ago apparently. But I
hung on to it, an lo and behold, I picked up a pallet of "misc drives" and
what do I find on the pallet but, you guessed it, the matching floppies for
the controller! Strange. Its known as the 'attraction' effect and while not
justifiable in any logical sense, it works like this:

        o If you have a piece of a system it "attracts" the other
          pieces of the system until you have a whole system.

Weird its true but it seems to work. Of course the system has to be
available to be attracted. I've got a piece of an IBM 1420 that is pointed
out to the street in the hopes that it will resonate with someone in the
valley but its been a while :-)

--Chuck
Received on Fri Jun 11 1999 - 17:03:13 BST

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