The S100 machine was mine . . .

Post #443,212 by Andrew Grygus 8/2/23 1:01:59 PM 8/2/23 1:01:59 PM Reply	The S100 machine was mine . . . . . but nearly all the rest of my electronic waste is stuff I brought back from client's upgrades and move changes (39 years). Unfortunately, it all went very obsolete very fast. Some is new. I have a Digiboard, two Qume serial terminals, and a CRT monitor all in their original packaging. Several of the PCs were in use here for a time - client cast-offs worked just fine running Linux and OS/2 (now ArcaOS). As they became old, there were always new ones coming in to replace them. Only in the last couple of years have I built new machines for myself.
Post #443,217 by crazy 8/2/23 3:31:07 PM 8/2/23 3:31:07 PM Reply	I had a stack of qume terminals Along with a few televideos and ADMs on an s100 bus system that had lots of slots for individual CPUs and terminal connections. That's how I learned CP/M. It was my brother's system but he dropped it in my lap and said learn this and teach me. That s100 bus system along with a couple qumes were the only thing my brother kept from that time frame for the next 30 years. The qumes were always the prettiest terminals compared to the others. It seemed the others took their design in the later years from the qumes.
Post #443,221 by static 8/2/23 9:35:15 PM 8/2/23 9:35:15 PM Reply	Keeping old tech... I had a big roll of assorted bits of Ethernet coax for years - my uncle salvaged it from somewhere, I think, and put a heap in the walls of the house he was living in at the time. I don't know if I got the scraps or just collected it myself. Went obsolete so fast... I've also got a highly versatile parallel to serial convertor box I liberated from a previous employer. We used them all the time to run printer services on the LAN as we could run serial lines from the servers a long way. I still don't know why I kept it as I've never used it. Wade.
Post #443,224 by Andrew Grygus 8/2/23 11:09:19 PM 8/2/23 11:09:19 PM Reply	I use an Ethernet to Parallel converter. My two dot matrix printers are too old to have an ethernet port. They will be in use for many years yet, as they are very lightly used.
Post #443,225 by static 8/3/23 1:47:03 AM 8/3/23 1:47:03 AM Reply	These hail from the heyday of Banyan VINES. :-) The bank I worked for had a modest (~30 servers) Banyan VINES network and most of the printers were connected to servers. But server-connected printers were not ideal as some sorts of maintenance required rebooting the server. Banyan later introduced a thing called "PC Print" so you could use a random networked PC as a printer server. This was much better and these serial-to-parallel converters started being disused. :-) Wade.
Post #443,232 by altmann 8/6/23 5:55:17 AM 8/6/23 5:55:17 AM Reply	Re: Keeping old tech... I think I still have a Bernoulli Box (one of the smaller 44MB cartridge models) hiding in the closet behind a box of random tangled cables and other ephemera. It would have moved twice with me since it was last used.
Post #443,235 by Andrew Grygus 8/6/23 1:22:14 PM 8/6/23 1:22:14 PM Reply	I have a double Bernoulli Box It's in the huge mound of electronic waste waiting to be hauled away. It was given to me by a tax preparer in lieu of payment. Never did work for that guy again. Tax preparers are really cheap. Doctors, at least, will eventually pay you. Lawyers, of course, never pay, "So sue me".

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