On Fri, Aug 29, 2008, William L. Maltby wrote: > >On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 17:27 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: >> <snip> > >> I still have a Tandy 4000, 386-16 no cache, that is used occassionally to >> program EPROMS. This same machine ran Xenix for years before being abused >> by installing DR-DOS on it. > >For shame, for shame! You should have known better! ;-) > >Regardless, I was getting readdy to discard these when I saw your post. >If you need some spares, I've got 1 each 360KB and 1.2MB 5.25" floppy >drives that still worked last I used them. One might have come out of a >TRS-80 I had when they were a "hot" item - I'm not sure. Also a box full >of media for them (a couple hundred?) untested but some may still work. I too have a room full of old stuff including floppy drives, EISA network and SCSI cards, 3 Telebit WorldBlazers and 1 TrailBlazer, Xenix 2.3.4 and SCO 3.2v4.2 boxes that still boot if necessary. Being a pack rat does occassionally pay off. I got an e-mail from a person who had bought my old Hawke DL-9 Formula Ford to go vintage car racing, and I still have the original paperwork when I imported it from England, letters from the designer, etc. which provides provenance going back to the factory. I raced this car from 1972 through 1977 on the east coast, and now it's about two hours north of me in Surrey B.C. -- small world eh? http://www.celestial.com/Members/bill/images/hawke_DL9_01.jpg/view FWIW, I even have lug nuts for a Lotus 41-C Formula car in my tool box dating back to 1968 which predates any of my computer bits. Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist. -- John Adams
