Dear all,

Apologies for this semi-spam message from a long-time appreciator of classic computers and nostalgic obsolete products, but I hope this will be of interest to at least a few people here.

So, yes, by way of context, I’ve been acquiring what I consider to be characterful and/or historically interesting computers for coming up to, maybe, 15 years now, with the intention of being able to curate multiple, interactive temporary exhibits on
the history of computing, but since moving continents (amongst other things), my paths and passions have changed, so I am currently in the process of re-testing (and repairing) my machines, and will be trying to sell them off in the coming weeks and
months. Under different circumstances, finding people (or groups) with similar interests and plans would have been an equal-first priority, but given my more recent ‘life changes', sale price — and the ability to better pursue my new focuses — is
now more of a factor.

But before I list them on eBay (and/or by way of a heads up), I wanted to let people here know, just in case I have something that someone here particularly wants / needs / could use. The current list of systems I will be parting with is accessible at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QqUrO11gnn4fwAPDxqO_phKDt1M0O15G7wJxHoQrL9s but some (hopefully) highlights include (*big breath*):


DEC: MicroPDP-11/53+; MicroVAX 2000; VAXstation 4000 VLC/60/90A/96; VAX 4000 100A, 105; DECstation 5000/240, 260 (MIPS-based); DEC 3000/300X; Personal Workstation 600au; AlphaServer 4100; AlphaServer DS20, DS25 systems; Letterwriter 100; VT 101, 220, 520
terminals
HP: HP rx2800 Integrity2; 9000 715/100 and Visualize C110 PA-RISC systems
SGI: Indy and O2 systems
SUN: ELC, SPARCstation Voyager (the portable one), 5 and 20; Ultra 1; Ultra 5; Netra T1-105; Enterprise T5240
Apple: IIc, IIe Platinums, IIgs; Mac 512ke, Mac Pluses; SE/30 and Quadra 700s (also for running A/UX); iMac G3s and a G4
Commodore: PET 3000 systems, PET 8032-SK; various C64 / C64C and 128D systems; SX-64; Music Maker keyboards (the big one, inc. SFX modules); Amiga 1000


Apologies again, please feel free to contact me with any queries or reasonable offers, or even if you’d just like to be kept in the loop as more machines become available, and all the best.

Thanks in advance,

Peter

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On 7/3/19 6:10 AM, Peter Dreisiger wrote:

Apologies for this semi-spam message from a long-time appreciator of
classic computers and nostalgic obsolete products, but I hope this
will be of interest to at least a few people here.

Have you considered (cross)posting your message to comp.os.vms or the
cctalk mailing list? There might be some TUHS / COFF subscribers that
would be interested in more Unix / other (respectively) things.



--
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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In article <676f809d-7eca-4ee5-bc1d-a34acdf5d5c0@googlegroups.com>,
Peter Dreisiger <prd@decarchive.org> writes:

I had thought about cross-posting to comp.os.vms but decided not to
given ven the (seeming) lack of similar 'hardware available' posts there (admittedly, I didn't go that far into the archives); but based upon
your feedback (and the feedback of several other people suggesting that
I did, indeed, have a pretty good taste in classic computers), maybe I
will, as I suspect the overlap between cov and here is far less than
100%.

Of course, it is technically too late to literally cross-post, but on
the other hand the difference would be visible only to folks like myself
who use a real newsreader. I've been on comp.os.vms for more than a
quarter of a century; such a post would be OK there. On the other hand,
those of us interested in hardware also read comp.sys.dec and alt.sex.fetish.dec-hardware. :-)

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Hi Grant,

On Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at 5:16:36 PM UTC+2, Grant Taylor wrote:

On 7/3/19 6:10 AM, Peter Dreisiger wrote:

Apologies for this semi-spam message from a long-time appreciator of classic computers and nostalgic obsolete products, but I hope this
will be of interest to at least a few people here.

Have you considered (cross)posting your message to comp.os.vms or the
cctalk mailing list? There might be some TUHS / COFF subscribers that
would be interested in more Unix / other (respectively) things.

Thanks for your thoughts / suggestions. I did, in fact, send this to the cctalk list (and have already gotten a bit of interest from there), too. And yes, I had thought about cross-posting to comp.os.vms but decided not to given the (seeming) lack of
similar 'hardware available' posts there (admittedly, I didn't go that far into the archives); but based upon your feedback (and the feedback of several other people suggesting that I did, indeed, have a pretty good taste in classic computers), maybe I
will, as I suspect the overlap between cov and here is far less than 100%.

Thanks again, and doubly so for the idea of posting to the TUHS list. (Just out of curiosity, what does COFF stand for? I only know it as Common Object File Format.)

Cheers,

Peter

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On 7/4/19 1:22 PM, Peter Dreisiger wrote:

Hi Grant,

Hi,

Thanks again, and doubly so for the idea of posting to the TUHS
list. (Just out of curiosity, what does COFF stand for? I only know
it as Common Object File Format.)

I believe that's exactly what COFF stands for. It is somewhat a play on
words between the binary format and coffee. As in have non-TUHS
specific discussions around coffee.



--
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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I'd be interested in seeing how I could help rehoming some of your equipment. If you have any experience in international shipping on these items, it would be greatly appreciated.

Rob

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Peter, where are you located?

Hans Vlems

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Hi Rob,

On Friday, July 12, 2019 at 1:47:06 AM UTC+2, Robert Jones wrote:

I'd be interested in seeing how I could help rehoming some of your equipment. If you have any experience in international shipping on these items, it would be greatly appreciated.

Rob

Apologies (to you and everyone else) for the delay in replying (several completely unrelated things came up shortly after posting my message here)...

Re shipping, mmm, well, I did shop all of these machines and parts from Australia to Germany (and given that, with the exception of the odd connector becoming a bit loose in transit, they all seem to have survived unscathed, I guess that probably should
count for something), however my experience sending individual systems and components abroad via, say, DHL, is quite limited (fwiw).

Cheers,

Peter

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Hi Hans,

On Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 8:19:53 AM UTC+2, Hans Vlems wrote:

Peter, where are you located?

Thanks for your question, and as per the subject line, I'm based in Berlin (maybe I should've added 'Germany' to that).

Cheers,

Peter

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Peter, my bad: missed that part of the subject line.
Berlin is too far to drive (I am in the Netherlands).
I really don’t hope it will come to it, but if you’d decide to part out these systems then I’m interested in Alpha memory and DS25 processor boards.
Hans

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Hi Peter,

Thanks for taking the time to respond. Sadly it looks like the shipping would nearly double the cost of the systems that I'm interested in picking up. Best of luck locating good homes for your systems, it looks like you have built a very special
collection.

Thanks,
Rob

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