Hi all,
I subscribed to the list half a year ago, but I think I never told you
what I collect. I'm a guy (20) from Germany and what I like is collecting
old harddrives. Strange aeh ?
You certainly will agree when I tell you what a friend told me (DEC-fanatic
guy):
" Harddives are a part of computers, I need them for example to upgrade old
mainframes, but I wouldn't just collect them!" ...I purchased a PDP11/23 to
test my SMD-drives (you remember my mails: "PDP11?/23 and QD32" ?).
Rescueing old drives has become a task for me.
A webpage containing all the disks WITH photos is my next plan, so that
people, who find old drives can refer to the photos.
So don't be surprised if my emails refer to drives in most cases.
Are there other harddrive collector in this forum ?
By the way, I have manuals for disk drives of the Trident Series (Century
Data Systems). If anyone needs them , please let me know.
I don't have a lot of time at the moment but scanning the docs will be done
in the coming months.
Pierre
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Brian Chase wrote:
>
> > I don't know; $5000 is a lot of money. That sucks. I don't recognize the
> > new high bidder's name at all. The chances are that we'll never see
> > copies of those docs now.
>
> Don't be so dour. System Source has been building a computer museum for
> years now (mostly through eBay it would seem).
>
> Check out their website:
>
> http://www.syssrc.com/html/museum/index.html
>
> I believe they used to have the collection on public display from their
> office.
>
> They're doing an awesome job documenting all this. I'll bet if you
> inquired they would be willing to make copies of the documenation, or scan
> it.
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
> Festival
>
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