Tandy (Radio Shack) 6000 rescue - photos

[Bob Rosenbloom]

Eric J Korpela wrote:
> Thanks to Jay for getting be back on the list.
>
> Please please please preserve the software and documentation and make
> them available to the world, if at all possible.  If Al doesn't want
> it, I'll take some of it at least.  Various Xenix versions and the
> Xenix C development kit are (or at least were) available online, but I
> haven't seen Fortran and Cobol.  I think I've got multiplan here, but
> until I get my machine working again, it'll stay on disk.  Save dumps
> of the drives in case there's something interesting on them.  It's a
> shame that the old FTP sites that contained software for this beast
> appear to be entirely gone.  These were one the most common Unix
> machines in existence.  Now you'd think they never existed.
>
> My 6000HD is currently not functioning, and I haven't had time to
> attempt repairs.  If you are planning to get rid of one or more of the
> 6000s I might be interested.  Where are they located?  Check to see if
> any have the Arcnet card.  If so, rejoice.
>
> If you are planning to keep them, digital photos or scans of each of
> the cards, showing wire "debugging" jumpers in place would be
> valuable.  I have been told that the printed schematics of the 68000
> card do not match the jumpered version, and I suspect that a dangling
> wire is the cause of my problems.  Its destination is not entirely
> apparent, since the solder blob came off with the wire.  Apparently
> the joint was never good.  Who puts jumpers on the component side of a
> board anyway?
>
> Eric
>
>   

I have a photo of the manuals here:

http://www.dvq.com/tandy/maunals.JPG

More photos, close-ups of manuals and some hardware here:

http://www.dvq.com/tandy/

There is Fortran, Pascal, Cobol, Basic, work processing, and many types 
of business software. Some
are just the manuals, some have the disk in the binders. There's a box 
of binders full of 8" floppies,
and a box of Bernoulli cartridges. Also, there's some stuff for the 
Models 2, 12, and 16 thrown in the lot.

Al is not interested in the stuff so I need to find a home, hopefully 
someone in the Silicon Valley area
(it's located at my house in Santa Cruz, CA). Shipping this stuff won't 
be easy. I can take things to
a shipping store though.

I have not yet picked up the two machines and the big line printer. 
Should have it all by next Wed.

I have no plans on keeping any of it. The lot included 25, 10 meg Data 
General cartridges, some Nova 3
documentation, and two National Semi 4004 boards. That's the stuff I was 
interested in. I can't store the stuff
forever, it's not in a good place, so the faster I dispose of it the better.

Bob