plain great luck

From: Jgzabol_at_aol.com <(Jgzabol_at_aol.com)>
Date: Wed Jun 16 20:26:57 1999

Hi all,

today some quite unbelievable piece of luck happened to me:
While I was walking by the back entrance of a smaller University
here in Minneapolis purely accidentally, not thinking about computers at all,
I ran into
a pile of electronics. Short investigation revealed that it was a 1965 CDC
3000
series hard drive electronics cage (14" removable pack electronics),
perfectly undamaged and complete with all the ~150 cards (it so happened that
I worked on an identical cage about 15 years ago),
plus a heap of cards from assorted ~1971 Univac / Burroughs machines !
Within the next hour I found out that the building will be completely
remodeled,
and had to be emptied out. Quite obviously, someone forgot about 25 years ago
this set of things in the second-level basement; nothing else there, though.
General lesson: we should ask all schools regularly for their renovation
projects !!

John G. Zabolitzky

P.S. If anyone knows about / wants to get rid of CDC equipment of that
vintage, please let me know !
Received on Wed Jun 16 1999 - 20:26:57 BST