Old computers

From: Erik S. Klein <classiccmp_at_vintage-computer.com>
Date: Fri Nov 22 20:51:00 2002

Mr. Frajkor,

The Computer History Museum is currently located on the NASA/Ames site
but they are basically in mothballs at the moment (they call the
"museum" visible storage.)

They've got some new space that they are setting up near the NASA/Ames
facility that's "off base."

I work about a mile from both the old and the new facilities in Mountain
View.

I honestly doubt that they are going to be interested in your specific
gear due to their limited budget (they just bought a large chunk of
California real estate) and the fact that the gear isn't all that
uncommon.

You can visit the CHM home page at http://www.computerhistory.org/ for
some more info and contact information.

If you are unable to convince them to take your gear I might be
interested in some of the items.

Best of luck!

   Erik Klein
   www.vintage-computer.com


-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Jan George Frajkor
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 5:44 PM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Old computers


      Does anyone have an address and some contacts at the computer
museum
that NASA's Ames Research centre in California is putting together?
There
was an article about it in the New Scientist Magazine.
     Here's the reason: some time ago a museum allegedly building in
Colorado approached me about taking away some old machines I have... I
promised them, but nothing every came of it and the storage bills are
killing me now that I am retired.
      I will give them away, but I do want to do it on a wholesale basis
rather than piece by piece. Here's what I have:

   Dec PDP 11/34, two RK06 drives (was working when retired). Drives
are,
of course, the big washing machine ones. 11/34 is in an "executive"
rack.
 
    Dec PDP ll/23, two RL02 drives, in usual tall rack. Broken pin in
ribbon cable to the mini-drives used for booting and diagnosis. RL02s
were
working when retired.


    Lots of manuals and some spare platters for the drives.


   Quick and Timely (Seattle company) CP/M box, S100 bus. Working when
last used.

   Matrox (Montreal company) CP/M box, with old analog-digital
conversion
attachment, used for scientific experiment data gathering when retired.

   No documentation, but some boot floppies for the above.


   Commodore 8296. Beautiful looks. Last Commodore entry into the 8-bit
business computer field. With dual floppy drive. Some software.

   A few miscellaneous Atari STs. monitors, floppy drives.

    Since I am in Ottawa, California might be a long way to transport
the
stuff but since some of it seems rare now and the Ames Research centre
seems intent on collecting stuff, they might be willing to pay for a
truck
from here.
   
   I would appreciate advice.

  ahoj



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