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From: Will Jennings <xds_sigma7_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed May 10 17:23:06 2000

Hey now, I can personally vouch that you did indeed get the Interdata
7/32... ;p The real truth is that you can find anything, provided you look
hard enough... Hell, the way I got my 3 Interdata 7/32s (well now 2), 2
Perkin-Elmer 3203's, P-E 3205, and 3 P-E 3210's was by doing a search in
excite for "interdata 7/32 minicomputer" and lo! I came across an ad (barely
3 hours old) saying "We've got all this stuff for free, if you want it, its
yours, just pay shipping, else its scrapped." So I got it. End of story. No
Ebaying involved... though half the people who pay stupid prices for say
common 11/35's wouldn't know what a 7/32 was if it hit them on the head... I
got a Sperry-Univac COBOL training course at a used bookstore... and I got
the FEP software for a DECsystem-10/20 at a thrift store for $6. Hell I got
my Nova 1210 by posting a "I want old computers" message in the newsgroup
co.ads... my point is, if you want it, look harder! I'm not trying to brag,
I'm only giving examples... I haven't even been collecting computers for a
year yet. But for god's sake, try harder! If I wasn't a year late I would
have manuals/software/schematics for my Varian.. but he pitched them.. if I
was only one month sooner I would have the disk + tape drives for my
Honeywell AND all the manuals + software... So get out there and SAVE the
stuff!

Will J

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