[geeks] Computer parts calendar?

[John Francini]

for me it would need to be pictures of older DEC gear or stuff  
associated with DEC gear, typically of the 1960s, 1970s, or early  
1980s, usually behind a terminal showing some output that would be  
(possibly) relevant to the OS:

DECSYSTEM-20: <http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/dec20_3.jpg>
DECsystem-10: <http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/images/dec101.jpg>  I wish i  
could find a cleaner version of that photo.

An ASR-33 answerback drum in situ: <http://www.cca.org/photo/rcsri/answerback.jpg 
 >

A running (or at least, powered-on) LINC-8, showing blinky-lights: <http://www.cca.org/photo/rcsri/linc-8t.jpg 
 >

j



On 1 Jul 2009, at 8:50, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> When I said interesting, I was thinking of photos unlike you might  
> see on eBay... I don't want to examine a chassis for scratches, but  
> instead a photo of a Sun 2 with a period set of keyboard, mouse,  
> monitor, all on and running a program/desktop would be very  
> interesting (to me).
>
> Interesting angles, close-ups of certain parts, etc. can also be  
> interesting.
>
> The issue would be to emphasise visual over technical - I'll be  
> looking at it for a month!
>
> Lionel
>
> On Jun 30, 2009, at 9:03 PM, James Birdsall <jwb-tech at picarefy.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the responses so far!
>>
>> 1) I'm not sure what constitutes "interesting" versus "catalog"  
>> pictures. My general concept was for each month to feature one or  
>> several pictures of an individual item, clearly shot and printed  
>> large enough to show details, with text describing what it is and  
>> the historical context, and maybe some captions pointing out  
>> features of interest. A card might only have one or two pictures;  
>> an entire computer would rate more, or maybe even a couple months  
>> if there was enough to show.
>>
>> 2) For this year at least, I don't really have a budget for  
>> contributor copies or anything, so it's probably limited to my  
>> collection of moderately-sized Unix workstations and parts. I could  
>> do a whole calendar of Suns pretty easily, but I have so much other  
>> stuff too. There will be some Sun-2 Multibus action, I promise!
>>
>> --James B.
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