Anyone want a Dandetiger or two?

From: Bob Bramwell <bob_at_copenhagen.cuug.ab.ca>
Date: Sat Nov 22 17:13:32 2003

I have two Xerox 1108 machines with the souped-up processor, colloquially known
as a "Dandetiger". Both were working until a few months back when I finally
moved everything I really needed onto a somewhat more modern machine. The hard
disk drives are starting to make dry bearing kind of noises and may be a little
hard to boot, but otherwise seem to work OK. I was having some problems with
the floppy drives, but maybe that's just because all my 8-inch floppies are
antiques. The monitors work well, except that I think there must be a sloppy
connector somewhere: sometimes they sit silent for several minutes after
power-on before suddenly making the flyback noises and coming to life.

In addition to the basic machines I have a couple of "busmaster" cards, which
allow the Mesa bus to be plumbed into a PC extension or multibus chassis.

I have the source code releases (on floppy) for Intermezzo, Koto, and Lyric, and
Koto Beta NoteCards. I also have copies of the LispUsers and Library files, the
Koto source files, and floppy images taken before I started having problems with
the floppy drives. In theory it is therefore possible to ftp this stuff back to
one of the machines and remake the floppies as good as new. Assuming the RIAA
doesn't sue me for copyright infringements I will be happy to supply CDs of this
stuff to anyone who needs it.

There is also a shelf full of manuals (1 set only) and assorted notes I have
acquired along the way.

Anyone interested in giving them a good home? I will give them away for the
cost of shipping. Truly I am going to miss these machines, but I can't really
afford the space to keep them, or the time to tinker with them.

I don't always keep up with this list, so if you are really interested please
e-mail me directly.

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