I'm back from my trip to Pittsburgh Pa. While there, I called around but
couldn't pick up a good lead on any old computers in the area other than the
1) Goodwill Computer
Center in South Side and online at
http://www.goodwillpitt.org/ and during
2) an annual Garbage Day. ;)
The Goodwill there actually had a cool small historical display along one
wall wtih several old computers (and stats) including a Commodore Pet 2001,
a TRS-80 Model 1&EI, a Apple 2e, a TI99/4&EI, a IBM PC... These were all
out of reach, and not for sale, but at least nicely displayed. There was
also some Mac gear and a little Sun equipment though they were a little more
pricy. They've got a nice area for selling old software, hardware, and
documentation. Buys included: boxed Commodore 64+4, Wolfram's Mathemattica
suppliment CD, early Mac, 800k drive, Amiga TeX, and medialess software
packages for MS Fortran, Bank Street Writer, and Jet all for something like
$15.
And on the way back home, I visited Alex Knight in North Carolina, and got
to see some incredible calculators from the 60s including his programmable
Merchants, and Nixietube/multiuser Wangs. I knew immediately that Alex
would provide a good home for my Canon Canola SX-320 programmable...
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/d/o/dogas/Can01.jpg
...which I was able to trade for the blue Intel equipment in the next pic...
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/d/o/dogas/Imds01.jpg
;)! Joe already had dibs on the white Intel 225 (did you notice the
harddisk for it?) I was happy to bring Joe's down and land the 210 system
to reunite it with the tape reader I already had.
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/d/o/dogas/Imds02.jpg
Thanks Alex. The Canola will ship today or tomorrow!
;)
- Mike: dogas_at_bellsouth.net
Received on Mon Apr 22 2002 - 13:10:29 BST
