>fun for someone with a soldering iron and a bucket of components. I want
>something big, something that hurts me if I drop it on my foot, something
>that reads a medium that I can manually edit, something that flashes lights
>and lets me know it is working! I find modern computers great for computing

I have 4 warehouses full of 1970 vintage MODCOMP II computers - just what
you're looking for!  Nice front panel, wire wrapped CPU planes, a TTY
controller with maybe 100 components. Core memory - 64K of 16 bit words!
Tons of 10 Mb Wango (Perkin Elmer) disk drives. A real time OS that fits
into 24K of memory. 16 levels of interrupts. Make me an offer!

Wierd thing is that it's MODCOMP II's that still launch the shuttle - a
little modified over the years to replace the core memory and newer
peripherals!

Howard
Howard McGinnis
hmcginni@digital.net
Electronic Visions, Inc.
1650 Barrett Drive
Rockledge FL 32955
(407) 632-7530
http://ddi.digital.net/~hmcginni
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