25 Nov
2019
25 Nov
'19
8:35 p.m.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 6:43 PM William Sudbrink via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I've just had the pleasure of taking a new machine
into my collection, a
Sol
20.
It's particularly interesting for several reasons. First, it was once in
the possession
of Jim Willing (zoom into the label next to the control key):
http://wsudbrink.dyndns.org:8080/images/fixed_sol/20191125_195224.jpg
For those that don't know, Jim was a very early collector of vintage
computers
and one of the first collectors to put up a web site with pictures of his
collection,
scans of documents and the like. Also, he was one of the first posters to
the
original classic computer mailing list:
http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/cctalk/
Huh, small world! I recently got the R80 drive that came with my
VAX-11/730 running, and was able to read an image of it -- which revealed
that the VAX previously belonged to Jim (and was apparently used to run his
BBS for a time). I've been meaning to track him down -- does anyone know
if he's still around?
(Also, nice find. Sol 20's are fun little computers.)
- Josh
