Matt King and I did warehouse work from 10-6 today. We worked our butts off! - There are five sets of lights on the ceiling. We finished putting LED bulbs in all but one set. - We finished the project to create an extra aisle on the organized side for "D" (DEC overflow; Data General), "E" (Epson), and "H" (Heathkit, HP) items. Nothing exciting starts with F other than Franklin which is in with the Apple II stuff because it's clones. - We moved the Epson, Heathkit, and HP shelving units into the new aisle. We built an additional shelving unit for Heathkit items. (Data General items will be moved some other day.) - We built another shelving unit for keypunch parts, small punch card readers, and small punch card holders. We moved that unit along the other existing punch card shelving units into the "K" area. We also allocated one individual shelf (no need for a whole unit) to our two NEC APC systems. - That in turn made more space for portables, Prime, and Perkin-Elmer. - We created a space for word processing items. I'm not very high on collecting those (no, we don't want a collection of generic 1990s word processors), but we have some interesting IBM/Xerox items so now those have a place in the warehouse to call home.) All of that "shelving Tetris" resulted in a bunch of things being in more logical places, and we cleared some things out of the unorganized side. We also cleared off one pallet from the unorganized side and we made a plan for how to continue next time, when we'll hopefully get the Sun collection off its pallet and onto proper shelves.
On Wed, 19 Dec 2018, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Matt King and I did warehouse work from 10-6 today. We worked our butts off!
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- We built another shelving unit for keypunch parts, small punch card readers, and small punch card holders. We moved that unit along the other existing punch card shelving units into the "K" area. We also allocated one individual shelf (no need for a whole unit) to our two NEC APC systems.
We have "small punch card readers"? What kind? Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
We have "small punch card readers"? What kind?
We have two that are branded Burroughs. I don't know anything about them beyond that.
I can take some pictures next time.
Until today they were nearly inaccessible. Now they are readily accessible.
PS. Come to one of the upcoming workshops and see what you can do with them!
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 7:31 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Matt King and I did warehouse work from 10-6 today. We worked our butts off!
Thanks Matt and Evan. All that hard work will help a great deal when working in the warehouse (i.e. better lighting) and organization (i.e. finding stuff). Also consolidating helps to free up space. The warehouse is looking better and better these days!
Matt King and I did warehouse work from 10-6 today. We worked our butts off! Thanks Matt and Evan. All that hard work will help a great deal when working in the warehouse (i.e. better lighting) and organization (i.e. finding stuff). Also consolidating helps to free up space. The warehouse is looking better and better these days! We even put the BBQ tank with the BBQ ... what a crazy concept. :)
Haha that's awesome! On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 7:58 PM Evan Koblentz <evan@vcfed.org> wrote:
Matt King and I did warehouse work from 10-6 today. We worked our butts off! Thanks Matt and Evan. All that hard work will help a great deal when working in the warehouse (i.e. better lighting) and organization (i.e. finding stuff). Also consolidating helps to free up space. The warehouse is looking better and better these days! We even put the BBQ tank with the BBQ ... what a crazy concept. :)
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation
Let me know if you get any CPT word processing systems in the collection. I used to service those relics. On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 7:31 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org wrote:
Matt King and I did warehouse work from 10-6 today. We worked our butts off!
- There are five sets of lights on the ceiling. We finished putting LED bulbs in all but one set.
- We finished the project to create an extra aisle on the organized side for "D" (DEC overflow; Data General), "E" (Epson), and "H" (Heathkit, HP) items. Nothing exciting starts with F other than Franklin which is in with the Apple II stuff because it's clones.
- We moved the Epson, Heathkit, and HP shelving units into the new aisle. We built an additional shelving unit for Heathkit items. (Data General items will be moved some other day.)
- We built another shelving unit for keypunch parts, small punch card readers, and small punch card holders. We moved that unit along the other existing punch card shelving units into the "K" area. We also allocated one individual shelf (no need for a whole unit) to our two NEC APC systems.
- That in turn made more space for portables, Prime, and Perkin-Elmer.
- We created a space for word processing items. I'm not very high on collecting those (no, we don't want a collection of generic 1990s word processors), but we have some interesting IBM/Xerox items so now those have a place in the warehouse to call home.)
All of that "shelving Tetris" resulted in a bunch of things being in more logical places, and we cleared some things out of the unorganized side. We also cleared off one pallet from the unorganized side and we made a plan for how to continue next time, when we'll hopefully get the Sun collection off its pallet and onto proper shelves.
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 7:32 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Matt King and I did warehouse work from 10-6 today. We worked our butts off!
Nothing exciting starts with F other than Franklin which is in with the Apple II stuff because it's clones.
Don't you have a Friden EC-130 calculator, I would conssidder that pretty exciting. -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG
Nothing exciting starts with F other than Franklin which is in with the Apple II stuff because it's clones.
Don't you have a Friden EC-130 calculator, I would conssidder that pretty exciting. Good point (and good memory)! It's a 132. But that is in a different place: it's on a shelf deemed "special" for one-off items that don't go anywhere else. Perhaps one of these days we will make a calculators shelf.
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