Old Computers

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    Hog, Sep 16, 2008
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    Chap I work with is an engineer (Volunteer) at Bletchley Pk. He happens to
    be a DEC engineer and had more than a hand in that bit of kit IIRC.
    He collects old kit;

    http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/

    and has most of it working in his "museum!"

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    Greybeard

    FLHR -03 UK (95 cu-in Stg 2. Big Boy 2!)

    Garmin Zumo 550, To get me home!

    ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk
     
    Greybeard, Sep 16, 2008
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    T i m Guest

    I bought a PDP11, 2 Disk drives, DECwriter, Line printer, 5 VT100's
    and a stack of disk packs for £200. It cost it's original owner
    £60,000 eight years earlier.

    Brought it all back to some spare office space at work (it all just
    about fitted in the Sierra estate and my box trailer) and even got it
    all going again.

    Shame I wasn't a programmer of I / we could have made some use of it
    all.

    Work kept the DECwriter and VT100's and the rest was sold for scrap. I
    think I got my money on the disk platters and connector gold alone.

    I did try to punt it around as a nearly complete package at the time,
    I think I even contacted Bletchley Park but no one wanted it (even
    foc). :-(
     
    T i m, Sep 16, 2008
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    geoff Guest

    Got a couple of Superbrains in the loft - I don't suppose anyone wants
    them, do they ?
     
    geoff, Sep 16, 2008
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    Greybeard Guest

    I'll ask him if you want?

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    ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk
     
    Greybeard, Sep 17, 2008
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  8. You can't do that these days -- now it's all Fortran. And they've
    even gone OO in F2003, with co-arrays in F2008. It'll all end up like a
    bastard cross between Java and COBOL...

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    Dr Ivan D. Reid, Sep 17, 2008
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    osvif Guest

    Ah well it was Fortran-V and Fortran-77 in my day.
     
    osvif, Sep 17, 2008
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    Ace Guest

    ITYM Fortran IV.

    Although google tells me that there was such a thing as a conceptual
    Fortran V, but it never really existed as such.


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    Ace, Sep 17, 2008
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  11. "The Museum now contains a hoard of vintage machinery, aka 'a load of
    old shite' according to friends,"

    The Force is very strong in this one. Just think what he could do with a
    barn and an interest in crap old bikes.
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    Dave
    GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

    "It's a moron working with power tools.
    How much more suspenseful can you get?"
    - House
     
    Grimly Curmudgeon, Sep 17, 2008
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    geoff Guest

    The alternative is that they get thrown away
     
    geoff, Sep 17, 2008
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