Elizabeth we would be happy to add them to the archive if you tire of them!
Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
Please check our web site at
http://www.smecc.org
to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us.
address:
coury house / smecc
5802 w palmaire ave
glendale az 85301
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Moore" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: Looking for old papers, photos, physical artifats relating to
the computer industry
> I too have a box of punchcards but they are punched; I am sooo glad that
we
> don't program that way anymore. I remember with all too much horror
> submitting my cards to the technician at the mainframe and having him drop
> them along with the other 100 or so sets of cards that had been placed in
> the card tray and those of us who were there watching having to sort out
our
> cards and place them in order again. All of this in the middle of the
night
> because the program was due the next day and I had a bug that I just could
> not track down in the first couple of dozen runs.
>
> Elizabeth
>
> Dr. Elizabeth Moore
> Assistant Director of Science and Learning
> Curator of Collections and Archaeology
> Virginia Museum of Natural History
> 1001 Douglas Avenue
> Martinsvile, VA 24112
> [log in to unmask]
> (276) 666-8600
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Diane Gutenkauf" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 12:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Looking for old papers, photos, physical artifats relating to
> the computer industry
>
>
> > My basement is full of a ton of stuff including un-punched punchcards
and
> > old mainframe harddisks. (don't ask) I've probably got manuals and years
> of
> > back issues of computer magazines, too.
> >
> > Call me and we can talk about what you're looking for and what I would
be
> > happy to be rid of. Now, I'll have to get that mainframe keyboard off
the
> > curb before the junk man takes it. Literally!
> >
> > I may still have a TI home computer in it's box. If it hasn't been
rained
> > on by now. (Garage sale this past weekend)
> >
> > Diane Gutenkauf
> > The Morton Arboretum
> > 630-719-2461 (v)
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:35:56 -0700, ed sharpe <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> >
> > >We are looking for old papers, photos, physical artifacts relating to
the
> > computer industry.
> > >
> > >books on computer technology, the history of computers, early operating
> > instructions etc...
> > >
> > >Please let us know before you clean anything out that is not relevant
to
> > your collections, chances are it would fit in ours!
> > >
> > >One neat interest we have is in the SAGE an/fsq-7 computer.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Anyone close to here have an old IBM keypunch machine?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >please email us off list.
> > >
> > >Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
> > >
> > >Please check our web site at
> > > http://www.smecc.org
> > >to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff
we
> > >buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us.
> > >
> > >address:
> > >
> > > coury house / smecc
> > >5802 w palmaire ave
> > >glendale az 85301
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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