On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:10:16 GMT
"Bob Ackley -> Ed Hulett"  wrote:

 BA> Replying to a message of Ed Hulett to Bob Ackley:

 BA>>> I still have three Heathkit H-89s, which are Z-80s; one got a
 BA>>> brain transplant in the 80s - replaced the motherboard with a
 BA>>> MicroMint SB-180 board, it was also upgraded with the
 BA>>> companion MicroMint SCSI controller and a 20MB SCSI HD.  Also
 BA>>> a Northstar Horizon, which is an 8080.

 EH>> You must have a large barn to hold all your toys. :-)

 BA> Actually, it's a room in one of the outbuildings, about 12x15 feet.
Contains my
 BA> big toys - an IBM S/390 plus peripherals, an AS/400, a VAX and a
couple of pallets
 BA> stacked over five feet high with documentation.  The smaller stuff
is here in the
 BA> house (three pallets in the basement are stacked about 6 feet high
with desktops a
 BA> former employer threw out).  All together there are over 100
computers here, only
 BA> about six are in regular service (and 2 of those are Linux test beds).

I've recycled a few S/390s as well as several VAXen. A friend got a VAX
6000 from a guy for $125 and parted it out for several thousand
dollars. I never got that much recycling.

He had intended to get it up and running, but he didn't have 240-3
phase.

You have quite a collection there.

Another friend of mine works for a local bank and gives me PCs that I
refurbish and either sell of give to people I know who don't have
computers.

Ed

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