On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:16:00 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
>PLEASE! save this from the scrapper!
>
>The Computer History Mueseum has one of these and one of the stops I made last
>month was to one of the last field service guys who maintained those systems
>and picked up all of the documentation, field diags, and a complete set of
>cards that he still had left. I'm hoping Mike (corestore) will be interested
>but it is a BIG system, as you can tell from the pics.
>---
>
>There is a B1955 mainframe system on Ebay right now, with just about a day
>left:
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5109222569
Oh feck... Louisiana is a long way... wish there were some better
pics, I wouldn't know any Burroughs kit if it fell on my head. Not
something I've ever looked at. How old is a 1955? What's the
blinkenlight count like? Is it compatible with anything better-known?
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
'As I walk along these shores
I am the history within'
Received on Fri Jul 23 2004 - 14:17:09 BST