A computer collection in Italy

Pontus pontus at update.uu.se
Wed Apr 6 05:31:49 CDT 2016


On 04/05/2016 04:31 PM, Christian Corti wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2016, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
>> http://www.retrocomputing.net/
>>
>> Looks like he has both an 11/780 (though it looks to be in pieces) 
>> and a 390.
>>
>> Impressive collection.
>
> ... that get's much smaller if you omit all those entries for flat 
> band cables, connectors, heat sinks, power supplies ... The only place 
> with a similar approach is ISER, a catalog of any single atom they 
> have in their collection ;-) Impressive list, but absolutely useless 
> IMO (e.g. entries like "cable, length 1m, purpose unknown, color black")
>
> Christian

Size doesn't matter. I'm more impressed by the fact that he has an 
inventory, _with_ photos. I'm also impressed by the diversity and some 
rare items.

Perhaps I'm just young and impressionable :-)

/P


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