[Test-Equipment] Fwd: rare stuff available

[Lyle Bickley]

The author (Dave McGuire) requested that his email below be passed on to other mailing lists where folks might be interested in the items he has to sell . This list is definitely appropriate...

Cheers,
Lyle
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Subject: rare stuff available
Date: Sunday 13 December 2009
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>


   That's "really rare", not "eBay rare".  My employer was supposed  
to get its funding last week and give me a huge cash bonus for  
putting up with month-to-month "survival wages" for the past year,  
but instead, they've hit a legal snag and now they can't make  
payroll.  I've gone from merrily making up shopping lists to abject  
financial terror over the course of a day.  With my emergency cash  
buffer long since gone (see "survival wages" above), I am in serious  
short-term trouble.

   So it is with a heavy heart that I must consider parting with a  
few things that are dear and precious to me.  Two things in  
particular are items that might bring in enough money to help my  
immediate situation.

   First, I have a set of original DEC OS/8 TU56 distribution tapes.   
I emphasize, these are *original*, nearly pristine, DEC-labeled  
distribution tapes.  I've had these for nearly thirty years.  'Nuff  
said.

   Second, I have an Atomichron.  Yes, a real one, a National Company  
model NC-1001.  One of the very few left in existence.  If you don't  
know what this is, you probably won't be interested, but in a  
nutshell it's the first commercially-produced atomic resonance  
frequency standard ("atomic clock"), built in 1956.  As far as I've  
found in my research there are three of these left of the  
approximately fifty that were built between 1956 and 1960.  I've  
written a short research paper describing this instrument and its  
history, including photos; I can provide copies of it upon request.

   I'm open to negotiation on pricing, but neither will go cheaply.   
If there's someone here who is interested in either of these fairly  
rare items, please contact me ASAP.  I'm planning to put one or both  
of them on eBay within the next day or so.

              -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL


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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"