[rescue] SS10/20 death

[Larry Snyder]

Cool!  From what I've seen, one of the biggest problems facing potential
rescues is proper decomissioning (at least for the larger boxen).  A
box w/ software & docs has to be worth at least two in the bush.
That, and available space has a bit to do with it....I had a Logicon
LI1000E in my living room for a few months.  It was a clone of an IBM
1130 with a pair of MRX660 top-loaders hanging off it.  Card input.
Spoke Fortran IV.  They got out of the emulator biz when a little outfit
in Mass. got upset with their use of the unibus in the CPU.  It was a
fun box, but the 29M disks were 50% bigger than a Crimson, and that
house was a whopping 760 sq. ft.
-ls-


Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> On February 6, Larry Snyder wrote:
> > Which, of course, begs the question:  How did Dave land a Cray or two
> > in runnable shape?
> 
>   The J90 came from a leasing company...I beat them up on it, they'd
> already made the purchase price back from the lease plus a huge
> margin, so they weren't worried about it.
> 
>   The other four...the EL machines, came to me via gov't surplus, and
> one from a college.
> 
>     -Dave
> 
> -- 
> Dave McGuire
> St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
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