volunteers requested (was Re: Beginner into Micros, etc.)

From: Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com>
Date: Sat Oct 21 15:10:40 2000

>Eric Smith wrote:

> You've got some catching up to do. My 4-bedroom condo, 2-car garage,
> and several *thousand* square feet of rental space are filled up with
> old computers, documentation, etc.

Jerome Fine replies:

I am focused exclusively on old PDP-11 Qbus, system, so I don't
get as much volume here in Toronto - thankfully or I would have had
to choose between a 40 year old computer or a 40 year old marriage.
As it is, even with just the DEC stuff, it hovers between the last two
choices.

> I'll be picking up another 90 sq. ft. or so of old computers tomorrow
> morning (Saturday 21-Oct) in Newport Beach. I'm somewhat disapointed
> that I wasn't able to get any local volunteers to help load it into the
> truck. :-( Fortunately a local friend is willing to fly down and drive
> back with me, but more help would be most appreciated. If anyone is
> able to help, I'll buy them a meal and/or a few beers. I may not be
> able to read email there, so to contact me, send a *short* email message
> with your telephone number to eric-oct21_at_brouhaha.com, and it will show
> up on my cell phone.

I guess I pay too much attention to details, but which single computer is it
you are going to pick up. Sorry I can't help from Toronto, but the air
fare is just a bit too much to LA. Mind you, I once went to visit my
son in Calgary and ended up with the insides of a BA23 box - I found
I could not fit the BA23 into any suitcase I had and even the power
supply was not a cost effective/weight effective/volume effective choice
relative to having 3 as spares already back in Toronto. The insides
even included a ST8760E and controller - not much of a find 4 years
ago, but satisfying since my first large hard drive of 600 MBytes was
6 times the price for the same drive about 10 years ago at a sell off.

Sincerely yours,

Jerome Fine
Received on Sat Oct 21 2000 - 15:10:40 BST