[OT] Looking for ancient boot media

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:41:19PM -0400, Bill Sconce wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:17:25 -0400
> Warren Luebkeman <warren at resara.com> wrote:
> 
> > This reminds me of a discussion I had with Maddog and Bill Sconce earlier this 
> > week, regarding the possibility of a show-and-tell of some of these ancient 
> > computers.  I'm sure others would be very curious to see some of these things 
> > in working condition, I know I would.  Especially a paper tape reader or 
> > something along those lines.  

I threw out an old optical paper-tape reader a couple of years ago, still
in the box, unused.


> It would be fun.  I was cleaning out the other day and came across a film
> can (you remember: film, the stuff we used to put in cameras).  Inside I
> found...   a few hundred memory cores.

Oh boy, a place where I can trot this out:

   http://www.geezer.org/core-window/

:-)

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