A good day at the Auction.

From: ed sharpe <esharpe_at_uswest.net>
Date: Tue Mar 9 20:58:37 2004

great stash!
congrats!

ed sharpe archivist for smecc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Ponsford" <tponsford_at_theriver.com>
To: <General Discussion :>; "On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 7:26 PM
Subject: A good day at the Auction.


> Hi All,
>
> Well it was a good day for classic stuff at the U of A auction today.
> For a whopping $2.50 i got:
>
> A HP 9000 200 (double stack), have not looked inside yet. powers on but I
need
> to make a cable for a serial console.
> A HP 7673 Controller! Whatever that is (same kind of case as the 9000 200)
> A HP external storage case w/HDD a floppy with HP1B connector
> A HP 9000 Apollo series 400, boots fine but has no HDD.
>
> AND a box of around hundred and fifty 5 1/4 floppies that included:
>
> 1 complete set of AT&T Unix PC V.3.0 (32 disks) and probably 3-4 more
"broken"
> sets that are missing a few disks.
>
> I wanna kick myself for passing on the AT&T 7300 in pristine condition
about
> two months ago for about $5.00 concluding I'd never find the Unix to go
with it.
>
> Go figure.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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