VCF Ban, Vector Graphic cards, Wright card punch, MDS Keyboard

Jason Scott jason at textfiles.com
Wed Apr 29 02:47:38 CDT 2015


Apparently, if you're not allowed to post on a forum, you immediately go to
your massive piles of everything you have that that forum covers and you
immediately throw it out
On Apr 29, 2015 1:03 AM, "drlegendre ." <drlegendre at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, but what is this drama about, again?
>
> Dare I even ask?
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Jon Elson <elson at pico-systems.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 04/28/2015 04:05 PM, Mike Stein wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Be that as it may and aside from the embarrassment and Mike's insults,
> no
> >> problem; more time to spend elsewhere and an excuse to finally get rid
> of
> >> the PC-related systems, motherboards, cards, disks & drives, docs etc.
> that
> >> I've been hanging on to for close to 40 years in case someone might
> >> need/want something some day.
> >>
> >>  Have a '286 PC?  I have a pick and place system that uses a massive
> > proprietary board that is essentially a 286 PC,
> > but with lots of EPROM and battery-backed static RAM.
> > I got rid of all my 286 gear almost 20 years ago, and now worry just a
> > little about spares.
> >
> >>
> >> - Mohawk Data Sciences keyboard.
> >>
> >>  I had the 36" fixed-head disk off a MEM-O-REE accounting machine, made
> > by MDS.  I have seen some of the consoles off them in surplus stores many
> > years ago.  If that is what you have, it is a bunch of TTL wire-wrapped
> > into a small box with a keypad and displays.  It was not just the
> keyboard,
> > it was the whole accounting machine (no CPU at all).
> >
> > Jon
> >
>


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