Silent700

I've finally made my first ambassadorial mission from the Midwest Neutral Zone to the Federation outpost of Wall Twp, New Jersey and at...

Most of the sought-after classic computers can be had, somewhere, for the right price.  But I've never wanted to pay that price, at lea...

I woke up to an email notice of a local estate sale, already open, with a "Commodore computer."  That usually means a C64 and the...

{tl;dr:  I was given some old BBS session logs and I scanned them.  Link in the third-to-last paragraph.} People give me things.  I'v...

Thanks to some very helpful people who have encountered these beasts before, I have learned much about the Sun-1 era chassis I wrote about ...

So I was dragging my feet, pushing things to the back burner and off the stove, getting-around-sometime to replying to an ad on Craigslist ...

This batch is not nearly as interesting as the last .  Some time ago I acquired a box of random DEC slides.  They were stowed away and forg...

I recently had the good fortune to attend a local estate sale which featured a great deal of telephone, switching and computer equipment.  ...

I do a lot of scanning .  I've got a whole lot more to do.   Efficiency is getting to be important.  Starting years ago with a cheap fl...

So I won an item on ebay for 1 cent and forgot about it, as did the seller.  About three months later, he wrote and asked me to come get it...

Hey Google - when I send someone a Picasa album or pic link, where do you think I want them to go?  Answer: Not Google+ This can be fixed...

The correct name, of course, is IBM Selectric Typing Element . I've got a good pile and finally got around to inventorying them . I was...

Saw the headline and had enough caffeine in me to jump into action and win the Internets: http://kimjongunlookingatthings.tumblr.com

What's the most popular PC SCSI card of all time? 1541C? Maybe. Or it may be the AHA-2940 family. It's up there, anyhow. And wh...

Today's upgrade is the home-made equipment rack. My first project involving my new table saw. No fingers were lost in this operation: ...

Here's an interesting note...Google Books has a whole lot of magazines up now. One of them is Info World. I've had it come up in a...

I uncovered this while sorting out all the Apple // stuff.  It has no other port on it.

VAXStations, VAXServers, DECStations, DECSystems, Sparcstations, Sun 3...we got it all.

13 Kaypros, an Osborne 1 (plastic) and a pair of Altos 580s (which ran MP/M, too.)