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Started by phow...
Thu, 07 Jun 2018 04:01
Where old computers find their final resting place
Author: phow...
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 04:01
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 04:01
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Some good snaps here https://www.cio.com.au/slideshow/268510/pictures-tech-yesteryear-where-old-computers-find-their-final-resting-place/
Re: Where old computers find their final resting place
Author: Kerr-MuddJohn
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 14:14
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 14:14
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On Thu, 07 Jun 2018 04:01:35 GMT, phow...@gmail.com wrote: > Some good snaps here > https://www.cio.com.au/slideshow/268510/pictures-tech-yesteryear-where- > old-computers-find-their-final-resting-place/ > Blimey, he got salted away a lot of stuff from work over the years. -- Bah, and indeed, Humbug.
Re: Where old computers find their final resting place
Author: Basil Hendroff
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 17:38
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 17:38
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On Thursday, 7 June 2018 12:01:36 UTC+8, pho...@gmail.com wrote: > Some good snaps here > https://www.cio.com.au/slideshow/268510/pictures-tech-yesteryear-where-old-computers-find-their-final-resting-place/ Impressive!
Re: Where old computers find their final resting place
Author: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 18:07
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 18:07
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On 07/06/2018 18:38, Basil Hendroff wrote: > On Thursday, 7 June 2018 12:01:36 UTC+8, pho...@gmail.com wrote: >> Some good snaps here >> https://www.cio.com.au/slideshow/268510/pictures-tech-yesteryear-where-old-computers-find-their-final-resting-place/ > > Impressive! > Indeed, especially the fan-fold paper tape and the DECTape, which I remember programming back in the early 70s, go back 3 blocks and then run up past at full speed IN EITHER DIRECTION. The lab where I was considered the DEC maintenance contract to be excessively pricey, so we had to trace faults our selves, but it was a brown trouser job when I dropped a screwdriver onto the wire wraps of the DECTape! :-(
Re: Where old computers find their final resting place
Author: Rich Alderson
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 19:55
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 19:55
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phow...@gmail.com writes:
> Some good snaps here
> https://www.cio.com.au/slideshow/268510/pictures-tech-yesteryear-where-old-computers-find-their-final-resting-place/
Yes, Max has a lot of good stuff. Some of it has found a new home.
--
Rich Alderson ne...@alderson.users.panix.com
Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
--Galen
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