15 Sep
2014
15 Sep
'14
9:38 p.m.
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014, John Foust wrote:
Last summer I picked up a Western Union-branded
Teletype Model 28 KSR
(circa mid-1950s) in near-pristine condition for $50. Almost twenty
years ago I found a Model 33 in a university dumpster.
For many years I used to collect old SCSI disks that otherwise would have
met a sticky end*. The most reliable ones were Fujitsu (they just
soldiered on and on) with HP next (they made a noise like a jet engine,
but I'm partially deaf anyway, due to attending too many *loud* rock
concerts#).
To this day, I still keep an eye out on the verge,
[*]
They were chucked out for the sin of being deemed too small for the latest
bloatware, but I never did find one small enough to act as a perfect RAID
journal. The littlest one was 2Gb, whilst I was searching for something
around 20Mb. Yes, I'm weird.
[#]
Bliss is when you are seated right in front of Suzi Quatro's Marshall
stack. Your ears will ring a bit afterwards...
-- Dave