AMA

Ask the dude who just hauled a shit ton of old-ass 1970s Datapoint computers, programs, perfs and terminals out of a warehouse anything.

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Where can I come pick some up?

Well, does any of it actually work?

How much did it cost you to deposit them in the landfill?

What are you going to do with these cheese wheels?

Y'all got any keyboards?

hoard them op, you'll make nice monies out of it, clean them and sell one by one on ebay

some specs?

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If there is a Datapoint 3300 in there please provide pics if it works. It was the first teletype with a CRT ever manufactured and there are apparently zero working examples in existence.

How's your back feel?

And looks like you have 8 (EIGHT) of those as well as three Datapoint 2200s, the latter actually being by some definitions the first personal computer ever sold due to its "programmable terminal" functionality. The Intel 8008 was an IC version of the TTL circuitry inside this machine. ALSO no functioning examples in existence.

You are a lucky man. Please keep us posted.

Going to make a nice buck on eBay selling to retards and hipsters.

you making a time machine, nigga?

To paraphrase Dr. Jones, "Those should be in a museum". Seriously, you should talk to the Computer History Museum. These should not be in the hands of just one person. Much like a Xerox Alto or Symbolics Lisp Machine, these are going to be super complicated to get running again, and it'd be really shitty if you let the blue smoke out.

I know you're joking, but for anyone wondering what those are: they're hard disk packs. Basically removable hard disk platters.

install gentoo

How much porn does each disk pack hold?

About 200megs worth of space on them I think.

So can I strip them out and put in a rad gaming mb?

As far as the condition of each computer, peripheral, and reel goes, how much money are we looking at in this picture?

Gives me the heebie jeebies imagining what those guts look like. Something along the lines of [pic related].

Might be a decent amount of gold in each computer. You could scrap them all. Would likely yield a good bit of cash.

My advice: pick through the boards and scrap them.

You are a terrible person, just an FYI

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Here you go. A link to help identify the parts containing gold.

chipsetc.com/gold-value-in-computer-chips.html

This guy knows what's up.

The devil is the Prince of Lies. OP needs to get that gold out of it.

Think about the gold, OP.

Just think about all this gold!

everybody thinks that.

i have a friend with an original Vax in his garage. he's tried paying people to haul it away, but nobody wants the hassle. he's probably going to be buried in it.

how many people do you think get incredibly nostalgic for the computer system they grew up on? and how many of them think "yeah, i'm going to start a computer museum!"

and how many actually do? and then discover that nobody gives a damn about the Prime 9955 Mk 2 and that it's worthless?

a friend gave me a mac classic, and i managed to start it up. i played about with the text editor. i drew a shitty low-res cartoon in the paint tool, realised i didn't have any way to get it off the mac and onto a modern machine other than taking a photo of the screen. i powered it off.

later i hollowed it out and i'm absently fitting a windows netbook into the shell.

>nobody cares about that stuff, goy! think of the gold! you could consume more than usual if you just give it all to me to destroy for you!
Uber driving on the weekends or a few hours at McDonald's would probably double the money you would spend on gas and waste in labor hauling that equipment to some kike who will pay you pennies on the dollar, that's just if they don't charge you outright because of the CRTs which cost money to dispose of, probably more than the individual gold yields per system.

Just because you're an idiot doesn't mean the rest of us are. A haul of that much Datapoint hardware is pretty kickass and there are multiple people ITT who obviously give a shit, myself included, if he can't get rid of the excess I'm sure the CHM, LCM or any other technology museum would probably go for it. The architecture of the 2200 in particular is practically the forerunner of the 8080 and by extension x86.

How large was your erection?

wow man .. those are really cool.
you can do a payroll with them

they are pretty boring as old tech goes.
these are like 'point of sale'
there must be zillions of them lying around. would keep a couple, 1 of each type

>point of sale
Yeah, you’re definitely an idiot running your mouth on about shit you know nothing about.

2200s were fully programmable, some
might even consider them the first real “microcomputer” as we know them today, it and the earlier 3300s were very early “glass teletype” systems for interfacing with minicomputers and mainframes, either of them were incredibly expensive and not something you’d see in a corner convenience store, not were they at all common. Obviously you wouldn’t want to keep every last one of them in the lot, but they’re sure as fuck not something to destroy or turn in to some nu-male epic geek mod garbage, either.

you are quite wrong
i worked with a lot of these things
more obscure even.. you are just relaying what you read on the web.

Stop weakly covering your ass, you didn’t even know how to use a fucking floppy drive.

Slide it between your mums twat like a credit card

why would i want to

Fuck off, it's his shit.
Also most bigger museums already have them.

Hello OP.
It's all cool and everything, but we don't really care, you don't have to shill yourself so hard.

>a friend gave me a mac classic, and i managed to start it up. i played about with the text editor. i drew a shitty low-res cartoon in the paint tool, realised i didn't have any way to get it off the mac and onto a modern machine other than taking a photo of the screen. i powered it off.
Even the shittiest Mac has a serial port, that's all your fault for not knowing how to do it.