[rescue] Junkyard Wars in a computer warehouse

[rescue at sunhelp.org]

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While reading the Junkyard Wars/Sunray thread I had a flash of carrying it 
over to my old Computer warehouse in Portland about 8 years ago. We were up 
to three floors and 26,000 square feet.
Full of scrap from Intel, Tektronix, Floating Point, Fujitsu, Mentor 
Graphics, DEC, etc.

The mission:

Some where in here are the parts to a Dandilion, a Xerox 8010 Star. You have 
10 hours to find the parts, assemble them and bring the machine up and 
running to do some trivial task.

It would have been fun! Too bad I didn't think of it. The next show could 
have been a VAX 780, then a DG Nova, an Intel Development system, an IBM 
Series 1, an Apollo 660 and so on.....OOH the final could have been a BIIN!!!

Actually we never did have the processor chips for the BIIN so that would 
have been hard. For the rest we had multiple systems, wi SW, and could have 
fielded multiple teams.

Those were the days!
Paxton

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<FONT  SIZE=3>While reading the Junkyard Wars/Sunray thread I had a flash of carrying it over to my old Computer warehouse in Portland about 8 years ago. We were up to three floors and 26,000 square feet.<BR>
Full of scrap from Intel, Tektronix, Floating Point, Fujitsu, Mentor Graphics, DEC, etc.<BR>
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The mission:<BR>
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Some where in here are the parts to a Dandilion, a Xerox 8010 Star. You have 10 hours to find the parts, assemble them and bring the machine up and running to do some trivial task.<BR>
<BR>
It would have been fun! Too bad I didn't think of it. The next show could have been a VAX 780, then a DG Nova, an Intel Development system, an IBM Series 1, an Apollo 660 and so on.....OOH the final could have been a BIIN!!!<BR>
<BR>
Actually we never did have the processor chips for the BIIN so that would have been hard. For the rest we had multiple systems, wi SW, and could have fielded multiple teams.<BR>
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Those were the days!<BR>
Paxton</FONT></HTML>

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