[vcf-midatlantic] UNIX PC Ebay

[Brian L. Stuart]

On Mon, 3/7/16, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> I think it's time, if you're a collector of such things to grab up a UNIX
> PC before the clean working and complete units fetch prices routinely above
> $750, (but not yet).  They're still "new vintage" but I predict these are
> going to become highly sought-after "tweener" type machines.   This is the
> PC a lot of the famous hackers used in the late 80s

Those are great little machines.  Back in the '90s, I used to host a collection
of the old archives and related material for these machines.  Peter da Silva
now maintains that archive:

http://unixpc.taronga.com/

One challenge in keeping those machines running are the disk drives.
For a machine like the one on eBay now, you need a HH ST-506/412
interface drive.  Working ones are starting to get pretty thin.  My 7300/3b1s
are the biggest reason I'm interested in the recent MFM drive emulators.

BLS