It looks to me like there's a lot of old relics amongst the 3000 crowd and
I can't help but join in the nostalgia.

From my Apple collection:
   The original wire wrap prototype for the Apple ///

From my HP computer collection:
   SPL pocket guide 32100-90001
   2100 DOS pocket guide 24307-90018
   MPE System Table Diagram 03000-90058 (the 'bedsheet')

From before that:
   An engraved form rule (still in use today)
   An IBM 026 keypunch drum
   A GE card punch calibration standard

From the 'near computer relic collection':
   An HP 35 with manual (still working with the AC adaptor)
   A K&E DeciLon slide rule with manual
   A Thacher's Calculating Instrument from 1918 (this is a slide rule
      with a 30 foot scale that has been cut into 20 pieces and mounted
      on a cylinder).
   A 3 foot strip of Jacquard loom cards (program steps 361 - 400)

Tom Root
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:35:35 -0800, William L. Brandt <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>I'll start. I'm going though our file cabinet and discover some old printer
>VFU tape. Somewhere there we also have the punch to make the tapes. That
>was an expensive and precision instrument.

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