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From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Fri Apr 18 15:01:01 2003

   There's not much time left to prevent this sale. If the sale does happen I hope some of the collectors on this list will be there to buy this stuff and keep it out of the hands of the gold scrappers and garbage men. I expect this stuff will sell for 1/10s of pennys on the dollars.

    Joe



At 12:44 PM 4/18/03 -0700, Al wrote:
>Just saw this on comp.sys.cdc
>
>Unfortunately, they may have waited too long for help :-<
>
>Greetings:
>
>Our computer museum, The Cybertheque Museum, has been preserving
>important CDC computers and their software, manuals and spare
>parts since 1971; we are currently in a major funding crisis and
>there is jeopardy of the irretrievable loss (lien sale) of the
>following machines (and more):
>
> 1. CDC 160 S/N 18 (handwired at Chippewa, overhanging desktop,
> rising punch)
> 2. CDC 160A S/N 270
> 3. CDC 606A S/N 9 (non-corporate switches)
> 4. CDC 8092 Teleprogrammer S/N 24
> 5. Librascope General Precision LGP-30 vacuum tube computer S/N 254
> 6. Various IBM card unit record peripherals for the 160.
> 7. CDC 1604 Console (with typewriter and punch)
> 8. CDC 3200 Console and Typewriter Console and various 3200 frames.
> 9. CDC 6400 cabinet
> 10. large amount of 1604, 3000, 6000, 7000, Control Corp, DDI,
> and peripheral logic cards
> 11. The entire FOCUS program library for the 160/160A
> 12. Much of the software library for the 1604
> 13. Much object and source for 6000 SCOPE
> 14. Experimental Operating Systems from Roseville and Rochester for
> the 160A/8090
> 15. 1700 Software
> 16. The entire software library for the Roseville TFC/MTC 32bit mini-
> computer.
>
>And much much more.
>
>Since a crisis precipitated by the unreasonable real-estate tax and
>redevelopment policies of Anoka County, MN in 1991, we were denied
>our musuem building and forced to store the above systems in storage
>unit warehousing in the Twin Cities area. The rental agreement was
>reasonable at the time but in the ensuing years the warehouse company
>decided to breach the agreement and forced us to pay ever increasing
>rent until it has become a major burden. The intent was to ready
>new facilities in Northern Minnesota and move the collection; the
>high rent at the warehouses and the high cost of transportation has
>delayed the relocation effort.
>
>We must pay $900.00 per month for the storage; we are attempting to
>raise money to cover some past rent to avoid a lien sale on April
>23. We are open to discussions to salvage the collection before the
>sale and/or to partner with others and receive donations to support
>the ongoing rental until relocation is possible.
>
>Please help us avoid the sad loss of such important artifacts.
>
>Michael Grigoni
>founder and president
>Cybertheque Museum
Received on Fri Apr 18 2003 - 15:01:01 BST