Extremely Off Topic -- but!

[Roger]

On 24/10/14 12:35, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 05:06:42PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> On 10/22/2014 07:17 PM, Fulko Hew issued this missive:
>>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Kevin Cummings
>>> <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net <mailto:cummings at kjchome.homeip.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      On 10/22/2014 08:31 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>      >
>>>      > Back in the day (late 70's), we had a "VCC". Clever reuse of the
>>>      > nomenclature for the primary voltage supply to a chip, but in this
>>>      case
>>>      > it meant "Valley Computer Club". This was when we used to
>>>      wire-wrap our
>>>      > own circuit boards and the Zilog Z80 was brand-spankin' new!
>>>      >
>>>      >       "Geeze! It runs at 4 MHz? And you have 32K of static RAM? Wow!"
>>>
>>>      Been there, done that, (still) got the IMSAI.
>>>
>>>
>>> Been there, done that too, got the tee shirt, (still got the Altair!)
>> I still have the Imsai, Altair, Poly88, Cromemco, Sol20, Vector88 and a
>> bunch of other very weird stuff (Tarbell ACI, ASR33 teletype, OpLabs
>> paper tape reader, etc., etc.)
> Say, does anyone of you hoard... er, I mean archivists have any DEC
> equipment with a 8 inch RX01 or RX02 floppy drive (or equivalent) ??
>
> if so, I've got a few RT-11 SSSD floppies I'd like to have imaged, if
> you feel like helping out a fellow hoarder. lemme know.
>
> Fred
>
The thing I love about this Linux group is the camaraderie, those of us 
who come from historical times on the same page. I think I've got my 
dad's old ultra modern TRS80 somewhere.
Gotta LUV it.
Roger