He restored the Apollo computer and he's there like he's on a budget. They should have let him pick whatever he wanted and have it all shipped wherever.

@@bobroberts2371 I'm looking forward to when the liquidation of Computer Reset starts back up again. Hasn't been open since July, as far as i know. Been too hot to allow people in the warehouse. Too risky.

@@525Lines The problem is storage space!

I get the looks too ;-)

@Pablo wedgburg Marc also has a larger house than most of us, so... it has room in which to go AND it's in good working order for the most part.

Some of my friends and local collectors did, and took a lot of the stuff in their rented truck before I showed up. And afterwards too ;-)

@@CuriousMarc You might want to get the trailer hitch installed on your truck, just in case :)

And 102007 on the tri-octal display to tell you it had "happy halted" I am led to believe that particular instruction as well as the rest of the instruction set is still in all Intel CPUs to this day :)

Yeah, they said that nobody could read the Apollo AGC cartridges either. Well, guess what?

You got the two principal ingredients right...

I hope this video helps with exposure. Sad for all that stuff to end up in a dumpster

That's the idea. Please feel free to re-post. But beware, although the stuff is far more reasonable than on eBay, it's not free. Ed has real world expenses to pay.

A quick update. The walking servo code was caused by contamination from a brush that swept across the lower disc during spin up. I think the brush was removed in later models. Be aware of this if you restore the 7906. I think it works just fine without the brush.

@77leelg thanks so much for the tips! I have the servo writing platter, but sadly not the interface board. Can you ping me via email (address on the About tab at kzfaq.info ) , I’d love to get in touch with you.

Dymec was the business division responsible for making integrated measurement test systems made out of HP and third party products. They had purchased the Union Carbide DSI 100 computer design that would become the HP 2116. Therefore it would make a lot of sense that they'd be the first one to make a digital voltmeter to interface with the 2116.

yea and here inlies the problem, people like this have a million dollars worth of inventory, and can have it 100% cataloged by a few interns in less than a year given most internships last the summer and xmass break, but no call my non long distance phone number and ask me for a specific part number, and if you make me hardly THINK for only 1 second slam down the phone and wholesale the remaining lot to a recycler for 800 bucks Its not amazing, its a old fart with a hoarder condition, and 90% of what he has will go direct to landfill cause he never kept a ledger. Its just a sad old man shuffling around a warehouse full of junk on the floor

@@osgeld - Show me on the interface card where somebody hurt you. You sounded so unpleasant with your description of that person, I sincerely hope that you never get attacked like that about something that interests you.

Quite the contrary. Ed knows exactly what he has and where it is. When I asked him for an obscure ROM by number, he located it in less than two minutes!

Hehe. Same here. The optical lab is when I first met the HP 85's too. Fantastic scientific and test lab machines.

@@CuriousMarc The HP 85 was what HP came up with from Steve Wozniak's ideas after he left HP. It will never sell said the HP executives of the personal computer :)

I would need to ask the original HP engineers (and hopefully Woz if I get a chance) to confirm. My own understanding is different. Steve Woznyak was working on the HP 264x terminals in Silicon Valley. These were Intel 8008 then 8080 8-bit microprocessor based, quite advanced machines, very modular, multi-cards with a very nice bus architecture, and quite expensive, but only programmed in ROM for implementing terminals. That inspired him to propose his single board microcomputer, an idea that got indeed turned down by HP. So you could argue that the later HP 2647, which runs a version of Microsoft BASIC in ROM, is as close as HP got to that early personal microcomputers. The HP 85 was developed independently by the Corvallis division in Oregon, essentially the calculator guys. The 85 is really a programmable calculator on amphetamines. And all with Corvallis’ unique own chips and completely unusual architecture. The story I hear is that it annoyed the computer division greatly, that they made a competitive product to their 9825 then 9826 computers lines at a fraction of the price...

@@CuriousMarc I used to have the opener for the 264X terminals on my key ring :)

@andrew allen - now that’s commitment!

Give Ed a call, quick!

8" floppies were before my time, but the reason I know the name Shugart is because the Tandy 1000 line used the Shugart 34-pin bus for their floppies all the way until that line died out after the RSX, and I've had to do some research on that standard to make adapter cables so standard PC floppies would work with them.

Or are they the dreaded plastic Remex drives? ;)

Those seem to be so-called moving blankets, used to protect furniture when it’s moved. Moving (as in: to live in a different place) is such a common activity in the US that there is a whole area of retail that deals with moving supplies. You don’t just buy “boxes”, you buy “moving boxes” (boxes, yes, but boxes labeled clearly for this very purpose and sold at suitable markup because moving supply purchases are usually under time constraints so price flexibility goes out the window - you can gouge the customers). The moving blankets are made often from recycled cotton fiber material, and there are many variants of them. Some look very nice - almost like things you could actually sleep on. Those might have non-recycled material on the outside, and an inner recycled layer. The stitching on them may look almost quilt-like and that’s likely what you refer to. Some look like one took a pile of cotton garbage and ran a steamroller over it, cut it into large rectangles and sold for approximately the going price of platinum scrap :/ I’d like to think that such consumer-oriented moving supplies are a very North American phenomenon, although it’s hard for me to know for sure - I don’t think I knew anyone who has moved an entire house full of stuff back in Europe when I still lived there (or at least they didn’t move when I was in touch with them).

I grew up in the age of 5 1/4... I only ever had one 8" drive and could never get it working... I don't know what it is but there's something so much more "real grown-ups computer" about sliding an 8" disk into the drive.

I am not sure, probably one of the F's.