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Erik

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For those who are interested in sharing their collections with others, pictures of your favorite machines can be posted to the boards using the Img button in the message editing area.

Some examples from my collection:

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This is my Altair 8800BT. It is a fairly standard configuration with 48K of RAM (really 49K, but who's counting) and 2 8" Altair disk drives. The unit works very well, although it is very noisy!


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Here is my Compaq Portable. It is a nearly pristine example of Compaq's first machine, complete with all of the original manuals and boot disks.

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Here is about half of my Magazine closet before everything went into storage. I can't wait to retrieve these for some research and archiving projects I've got planned.

Erik
 
Ah, an Alltair 8800. I have fond memories of mine. Wish I still had it.
It was a fun computer.
 
Re: Machine Pictures

"Erik" wrote in message:

> For those who are interested in sharing their collections
> with others, pictures of your favorite machines can be
> posted to the boards using the Img button in the message
> editing area.

<snip!>

Ace_face.jpg


<snip!>

This is what I wished I could have!

Cheers.
 
"ggs" wrote in message:

> Here's a picture of *most* of the working and
> semi-working machines in my collection

machine-room2.jpg


I've actually seen a machine like this. The school I used
to study at had a machine like this. It was a bit smaller
I think, but they eventually put it into their network
centre. All they'd call it was a minicomputer. But it was
a dec based minicomputer.

Cheers.
 
Re: Machine Pictures

"CP/M User wrote in message:

>> For those who are interested in sharing their collections
>> with others, pictures of your favorite machines can be
>> posted to the boards using the Img button in the message
>> editing area.

<snip!>

Ace_face.jpg


<snip!>

> This is what I wished I could have!

Sorry about the off-topicness Erik. I could post a picture
of an Amstrad, but it wouldn't be quite like mine. Lack of a
decent digital camera & scanner force me from sending
pictures (I'd like to just tie in with the ol' concepts).

Cheers.

Updated, there was a typo in it! :-(
 
That is one amazing collection of PDPs! I don't think I could afford to power, more or less house, that much iron!

Where do you keep it all? It looks like a warehouse of some sort.

What kind of special power requirements did you have to arrange for?

Now I know why the lights in San Jose dim from time to time. Obviously someone's collection is getting played with! :lol:

Erik
 
Here I go answering my own questions!

I browsed over to your website and found what I was asking. I can't believe that you've got those machines in your garage! I figured you'd need a lot more space.

It was good to add some dedicated circuits for them, though, since you'd probably be blowing fuses on the one line if you powered up too many boxes at once.

Erik
 
Yea, before the dedicated circuits I could only plug one in at a time. Trying to adapt a 110v 30amp twist lock to a "normal" outlet is just no fun at all!

As far as dimming the lights in San Jose, wait 'til I start to fire up the KL-10. ~26KW! But first I have to figure out how to get 220v 3-phase to power it. :-(
 
COOL!

I love all of those pics. Keep them coming.

Where did you get all of those PDP-11s? Company got rid of them?

Problem now is knowing how to run them all and tie them all in together. Would make a GREAT museum in itself.

We had a PDP-11 in high school which loaded programs in paper tape or punched cards. Or you could type BASIC in via a teletype. A few years later, we had PDP-11s at college and all used workstations using UNIX I believe.

Those were the days. Incredible we can all simulate that using emulators.
 
"Postal Patron" wrote in message:

> COOL!

> I love all of those pics. Keep them coming.

> Problem now is knowing how to run them
> all and tie them all in together. Would make
> a GREAT museum in itself.

> We had a PDP-11 in high school which
> loaded programs in paper tape or punched
> cards. Or you could type BASIC in via a
> teletype. A few years later, we had PDP-11s
> at college and all used workstations using
> UNIX I believe.

> Those were the days. Incredible we can
> all simulate that using emulators.

How I envy you!
 
Thomas Hillebrandt said:
Jus'thought I'd let y'all glance at this tiny little machine... (RC Piccolo)
Click to expand...
Ah, the bartender's computer! 8)

In Persondatorn 8/1984 (Swedish computer magazine), the CP/M based (?) software called "À la Carte" by Anders Westman (ITT/Scanips) is described. It is a dedicated restaurant application where one can plan the menu, keep recipes, estimate raw material requirements, nutrition facts etc.

The article describes how Maxim, a restaurant in Stockholm, is using À la Carte for their needs, and how a drink is ordered directly into the computer by entering its order number. As long as the customer sticks to drinks in the register, almost everything except for the actual mixing is automated.

À la Carte was originally meant for military food support, but redesigned for restaurants' needs. It can be used to keep inventory, check profits and maintain correct pricing. ITT/Scanips distributed a complete solution based on a Danish RC Piccolo or later RC Partner, software and support. The software was menu driven and written in CB80.
 
"carlsson"wrote:

>> Jus'thought I'd let y'all glance at 'this' tiny
>> little machine... (RC Piccolo)

> Ah, the bartender's computer! 8)

One things for sure, if you compare the screen
to the one he's using in his Icon, they don't
match! ;-)

Heh!,
CP/M User.

P.S. Which BASIC is that on your Icon, Thomas?
CBASIC?
 
CP/M User said:
P.S. Which BASIC is that on your Icon, Thomas?
CBASIC?
Click to expand...

C82-BASIC...The BASIC delivered with the Casio FP-1000, which incidently is also a CP/M machine of some sort, if I'm not much mistaken. My only reason for choosing it as an avatar was that it wasn't a too common machine.

Speaking of the RC machines, I'm still missing the RC Partner...I do have a Piccoline system too, though...And of other Danish machines, I have both the James and the James PC-800 from Logic Design, which was situated in my birth-town...Both CP/M's too... :wink:
 
"Thomas Hillebrandt" wrote:

>> P.S. Which BASIC is that on your Icon, Thomas?
>> CBASIC?

> C82-BASIC...The BASIC delivered with the Casio
> FP-1000, which incidently is also a CP/M machine
> of some sort, if I'm not much mistaken. My only
> reason for choosing it as an avatar was that it
> wasn't a too common machine.

> Speaking of the RC machines, I'm still missing
> the RC Partner...I do have a Piccoline system
> too, though...And of other Danish machines, I
> have both the James and the James PC-800 from
> Logic Design, which was situated in my
> birth-town...Both CP/M's too... ;-)

Yes, CP/M caters for a large family of computers,
mostly 8080 or Z80 based, but exists for other
processors as well! :)

Cheers.
 
Nah; I just forgot to take the lense cap off :)

No seriously, and thanks for noticing CP.

I think it is because the URL's I used point to files that are on my yahoogroups site, and that membership thing may be getting in the way.

I guess I will have to transfer the files over to a personal web space or geocities or something.

Chris
 
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