CLASSIC COMPUTER RESCUE

I am available to assist in the rescue of "classic" computers from closets, attics, basements and other storage locations before they end up in a scrap yard or a landfill. I can provide a good home for these old machines, where they will be cleaned, repaired and restored to operating condition before being placed in a virtual (for web visitors) computer museum.

Before you throw out that old computer, old calculator, or old manuals, please send me an e-mail!

Location: (Primary) Maryland, midway between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
(Alternate 1) Illinois, Chicago area
(Alternate 2) Michigan, Grand Rapids area
E-mail: dan@decodesystems.com
Web: http://www.decodesystems.com
Range: I've been known to drive 24 hours straight to recover old Hewlett-Packard computers. I have a Jeep with a trailer hitch for larger items.
Interests: HEWLETT-PACKARD (HP)
  • Hewlett-Packard computers and calculators
    • Early computers, including the 2114 (2114A), 2115 (2115A), 2116 (2116A, 2116B, 2116C), 2100 (2100A, 2100S) and 21MX
    • Hewlett-Packard HP 250, HP 260 and HP 300 multi-user business computers
    • Desktop computers and calculators like the 9100 9805 (9805A), 9810 (9810A), 9815 (9815A), 9820 (9820A), 9821 (9821A), 9825 (9825A, 9825B, 9825P, 9825T), 9830 (9830A, 9830B), 9831 (9831A), 9835 (9835A, 9835B) and 9845 (9845A, 9845B, 9845C)
    • HP 9807A Integral portable computer
    • Hewlett-Packard peripherals including 2748B paper tape punch, 9885 disk drives (9885M and 9885S), 9869 (9869A) card reader, etc.
    • nearly any Hewlett-Packard calculator (more about calculators here)
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION (DEC)
  • older Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) equipment including
    • MicroVAX, PDP-11, PDP-9, PDP-8, DECstation, and so on, as well as the smaller DECmate-II and DECmate-III "personal" computers. Especially interesting are PDP-1, PDP-8 ("straight 8") PDP-8/a (PDP 8a), PDP-8/e (PDP 8e) and PDP-8/i (PDP 8i), PDP-10, as well as the MicroPDP-11, PDP-11/23, PDP-11/34, PDP-11/44, PDP-11/45, PDP-11/70, PDP-11/73 and so on.
    • Also interested in smaller DEC boxes like the VT180 Robin CP/M machine, Pro 350 and Pro 380.
    • Also interested in peripherals, including RX01 and RX02 drives.

      You can see a DEC product timeline by clicking here.

HEATHKIT COMPANY TANDY (RADIO SHACK)
  • Tandy (Radio Shack) TRS-80 series
    • Desktops Model 1/Model I (and clones like the LNW-80), Model 2/Model II, Model 3/Model III, Model 4, Model 12, Model 16
    • Laptops (Model 100, Model 102, Model 200, Model 600, etc);
MICROCOMPUTERS
  • Almost any microcomputer system built before 1985;
MICROPROCESSOR TRAINING AND EVALUATION
  • 1802, 2650, 6502, 4004, 8080/8085 and other microprocessor training and evaluation systems and kits
  • HP training units like the briefcase-mounted HP 5036A
  • COSMAC-based, like the Netronics ELF, Elf II, Quest SuperElf
  • RCA Microtutor, Microtutor II, VP-111, VP3300, VIP
  • AT&T XPC Tutor
  • Comx 35 (COMX35)
  • DEC Digital Computer Lab (circa 1968), μ/T-11 (micro-T/11)
  • E&L MMD-1 and MMD-2 8008 microcomputer development systems (including add-on cards and modules like the EID-1)
  • Electronic Product Associates EPA Micro 68
  • Fluke TK80A single board computer
  • Heathkit ET-3400, ETA-3400, ETW-3400, ET-6800
  • Iasis Computer in a Book
  • IMSAI 8048 Control Computer
  • Intel MCS-4 SIM4 microcomputer
  • Intel MCS-40 C4040 Development Kit
  • Intersil Intercept, Intercept Junior (Intercept Jr.)
  • MOS KIM-1 and SYM-1
  • Motorola MEK 6800 (MEK 6800D1 and MEK 6800D2)
  • Motorola Educator II HEP Kit
  • Multitech Micro-Professor (MPF-IP, etc)
  • NEC Microcomputer Training System
  • National Radio Institute NRI Digital Computer Model 832
  • National Semiconductor Pacer computer
  • Protec PRO-83 (Z80 Single Board Computer)
  • Signetics Instructor 50
  • Microcomputer Associates Jolt Microcomputer
  • Synertek CP110 Super Jolt CPU board
  • Texas Instruments Microprocessor Learning Kit
  • Rockwell AIM-65
EARLY TRAINING AND DEMONSTRATION DEVICES
  • Training devices such as the ComTech-10 (CT-10)
  • Early electrical and mechanical demonstration devices, such as
    • Arkay CT-650 Computer Trainer
    • Berkeley Enterprises GENIAC
    • Brainiac
    • Scientific Development Corporation Minivac 601
    • Digi-Comp 1 and Digi-Comp 2 (Digi-Comp I and Digi-Comp II)
    • Kenbak-1
DISPLAY TERMINALS
  • old display terminals like the Lear-Siegler LSI ADM-3, ADM-3A and ADM-5, DEC VT-52 and DEC VT-100, Televideo 910 and 912, ITT Asciscope, Datapoint 2200, HP 2600 and HP 2615, Beehive MiniBee
  • old Teletype (ASR 28, ASR-33 / KSR-33 and ASR-35 / KSR-35) and paper tape equipment
HANDHELD COMPUTERS
  • Handheld computers such as the Atari Portfolio, HP 95LX, HP 100LX and HP 200LX
CALCULATORS
  • Older calculators of almost any make and model
  • Nixie tube calculators, test equipment and clocks;
  • LED and scientific watches (like Casio CFX40 and CFX400, Epson RC20)(CFX-40, CFX-400, RC-20)
PUNCHED CARDS AND PAPER TAPE
  • punched card readers and punches
  • paper tape readers and punches

GENERAL

  • And general interest in electronic items from the 1960's and 1970's.
Disinterests: Late-model Intel computers (286, 386, 486, Pentium I), Commodore 64s, printers.
Collection Favorites: Hewlett-Packard HP 9100B, HP 9821, HP 9831 and HP 5036A, Apple Lisa 2, Atari Portfolio.
Casio FX-1, HP 10C, Sharp PC-1001, Rockwell 350.


Send e-mail to dan@decodesystems.com

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Last updated July 22, 2006