[TUHS] computer inventory for hardcore geeks (fwd)

All, I just received this e-mail. I have no idea who Wendy is, but perhaps the things she has stashed away may be of some interest to you. Warren ----- Forwarded message from Wendy Murphy ----- Message-ID: <20020830222155.14119.qmail(a)web14907.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:21:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Wendy Murphy <jendywo(a)yahoo.com> Subject: computer inventory for hardcore geeks To: clintw(a)colorado.cirrus.com, xds_sigma7(a)hotmail.com, eric(a)brouhaha.com, iking(a)microsoft.com, mcquiggi(a)sfu.ca, emu(a)ecubics.com, dworkin(a)village.org, russell283(a)attbi.com Cc: rob(a)witte-family.net, jjdellea(a)chisp.net, wkt(a)tuhs.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.01 Content-Length: 3539 In my quest to get the house clean so I can get out, I decided to inventory the computer stuff. It's like inventory by the technologically blind! I got just so far before I got frustrated and gave up. Pat and Rob took the sillyscope (with the intention of selling it, I believe) and the RT, I think it was called (to keep for my ex-). Dworkin took the PDP-11/73. I asked him for $84 because that's what I need to keep Xcel from shutting off my electricity, but he chose to give me a check for $500, which I have not cashed and won't until he's had the stuff long enough to ascertain that it works and tell me so, or for two weeks, whichever comes first. That leaves: (Note: sizes are eyeballed by someone with a lousy eye) IN THE GARAGE: various cables, keyboards, mouses, plugs, cabinets, broken TVs, VCRs, and a Laser disk player, and miscellaneous hardware a box about 1'x1.5'x2' with a 3.5" and a 5.25" drive, and seven flat buttons with colored lights and symbols, like turtles, rabbits, and lightning bolts. an Alpha Micro 1000E Raster Tech monitor D-SCAN, an 8"x8"x1" board with 17 female cable plugs in three rows labeled "In" "Out" and "CH", six columns labeled "R G B H V C" a 3'x3'x2' dec RXO2 and RLO2 exposure timer & power supply unit Sharp electric typewriter, and another electric typewriter up too high for me to read anything off it. a couple of Apple II+s (Dad wants to keep one as he has some information on a 5.25" floppy formatted for that computer) SCM152 dry copier microfiche reader ? Kennedy model 9300 tape drive AlphaWrite documentation, and several 3-ring binders of documentation I just didn't feel like thumbing through for particulars right now (but can later, if you like) and the infamous 78 2'x2' floor tiles. (Dworkin said he's seen them advertised for $9 apiece, new. They're not quite in new condition, but that gives a ballpark for what they ought to be worth) I didn't check IN THE LOFT, because it's too high for me to reach or see. IN THE FURNACE ROOM: I saw an Amdex 300A video monitor NEC multisync 2A monitor Raster Tech monitor ADDS (?) monitor and at least one other monitor with no words I could identify An okidata printer an ALPS ALQ200 printer an IBM selectric II typewriter a Minolta fax 261 and a "stack" -- y'know, a computer, with two 3.5" and one 5.25" floppy drives and buttons that said "turbo" and "reset", but no brand name I could make out. IN THE CAVE: there remains a Scientific Atlanta receiver IBM monitor IBM 3.5" floppy drive HP LaserJet printer Smith-Corona electric typewriter Data south DS 150 printer Microscience International Corporation thing that says it has 7 heads and 855 cylinders, but won't tell me what it uses them for digital h3350; I don't know what it is, but it's the size of a deck of cards a couple of EMLock security door thingies (magnetic) various boards (green things with solder and little batteries and stuff on them) a couple of Alpha Micro video cassettes That's what I had the energy to see. Can you enlighten me as to what these things are and what ought to be done with them? I can't even get at the other stuff in the furnace room/garage until some of it gets moved. ~ Wendy the technologically incorrigible ----- End of forwarded message from Wendy Murphy -----