[nylug-talk] Wanted: (Gently) Used IBM hardware and used Compaq hardware

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Robert Menes" <viewtiful.icchan at gmail.com>
> On Dec 31, 2007 12:13 PM, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle at coredump.us> wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 31 December 2007, Gregg Levine wrote:
> > > On Dec 31, 2007 7:08 AM, Kevin Mark <kevin.mark at verizon.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Being a Time Lord and all, is your Tardis needing some replacement
> > > > parts? Just curious as to what possible use this ancient technology
> > > > would be...
> > >
> > > Hello!
> > > My collection needs more items to be fully rounded out.
> > > The model 70 and model 80 would have been nice, either one of course.
> >
> >   I understand the nostalgia...  but to many the *empty space* is worth
> > more
> > than old relic computers are.  Just depends on what personal value you
> > place
> > on this type of stuff.
> >
> >   -- Chris
> 
> Someone should've gotten ahold of me sooner... I just unloaded my old IBM
> PS/2 Model 35
> 386SX/20 on craigslist.
> 
> The little guy had 4MB of RAM and an 80MB HD, and I was running it as a
> Linux firewall.
> 
> --Rob
> (Linux user and not about to change that :P)


And I have a collection of old crap too.  Mostly Tandy/Radio Shack gear.  It's what I first learned Unix om a quarter of a century ago in the guise of Xenix, the officially licensed port of Unix by the company that later became the Evil Empire.  Since Microsoft was not competent to make it an end-user product, they sublet it to Altos, IBM, Tandy and the Santa Cruz Operation (not to be confused with the SCO Group that's going titsup).  Tandy shipped it with our 68k systems, the TRS-80 Model 16 and Tandy 6000.  I have a T6kHD in the basement, runs console plus two terminals with a single meg of RAM and a 15Mb HD on a 8Mhz 68000 cpu.  No ethernet ever available for it, serial is what I got.

One of the two terminals is an AT&T 7300 (10 Mhz 68010, 3.5 Mb RAM) emulating a VT100 but I can also play Rogue and other games locally on my second-favorite keyboard.  The other terminal is a Tandy 2000 (8Mhz 80186) with my absolutely favorite keyboard ever running Softerm

I back up my Xenix and AT&T Unix PC systems to a Linux box with uucp.  I'm not sure, but I may be the only person still using uucp in the NYC metro area.  Most linux folks can't even spell uucp.

It's getting late.  Time to finish up my blog entry on the TRS-80 Model 100 (1 Mhz 80C85 cpu, 32k RAM), ymodem it to the main Linux server and give it to the world.

Some folks think I'm some strange.  Some folks (not necessarily the same ones) may be right.  My oldest computer will turn 30 this year.  Yes, it still works fine, as do a dozen others dating from the late 70s to the mid 80s without MS-DOS.
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