[LMB] Re: OT: Old computers

[BOB!!]

M Traber <mtraber251 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> owning a mini-mainframe [needs an OS, so is essentially defunct at
> this point in time] give me good geek cred?

> Though maybe the provenence of it drops it - ex submarine ballistic
> mini-main - Sperry Univac 1616/SNAP II.

I'd say that's good for some decent geek cred.  How much geek cred is
it worth that on paper, I'm qualified to fix it for you? (not that
I've seen a SNAP II machine, let alone opened one up in more than 15
years)

My brother was keeping my PDP-11 in his basement, but he just moved
and with my permission, gave it away to a good home.

As far as the rest of my machines, I've got an AT&T 3B2/310 (Unix box
circa 1984) and a NEC PC-6001A (circa 1981) in the attic, along with
various terminals (a VT-100 and several AT&T boxes), a Mac SE and a
few Mac Pluses, a IIsi, a couple of 68040 boxes, a pair of PowerMac
6100s, a Powerbook 170 with a broken display, and a PC or two (there
might be others that escape my memory at the moment).  In the office
for regular use, we've got my wife's Dell laptop, my PowerBook G4, my
PowerBook G3 (which I use for some legacy applications) and a
PowerMac G5 which we use for photo & video processing.

Regards,

BOB!!

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