[TriLUG] Garage "Sale"

[David Burton via TriLUG]

Haha!  I thought I was the only one that crazy.

I once bought a surplus XDS 930. It had 32 K words (96 KB) of 24-bit core
memory, two refrigerator-sized mag tape drives, a card reader/punch, a line
printer, and more.

I never tried to run it, though.

I still have a power supply from it.

Dave


On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Ric Moore via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

>
> I wish I lived there just to go through everyone's computer junk. The last
> time I went nuts I bought a Unisys 5000/90 from Virginia surplus. There
> were three huge cabinets that required 200V and 60 amps to turn the beast
> on. I loved watching the tapes sync. Too cool. I just couldn't afford to
> run it much. :) Ric
>