hallo, ich sammle alte festplatten aber auch andere alte computer sachen
(zubehoer, wie ganze computer), ich bin natuerlich an allen interresiert.
Ich wohne in frankreich, und bin 18 jahre alt.
mfg
----- Original Message -----
From: <P.Gebhardt_at_gmx.de>
To: <cctech_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 6:43 PM
Subject: Harddrive collectors
> 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
>
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> > 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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