My new(ish) job, and the hardware nightmares ahead of me (lots of pics)...

[Umfriend]

NASA can cope with that hightech stuff? Next thing you tell me they cn get ppl on the moon (and back!)
Umf

[JerryH]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
KayPro used the CP/M operating system and had a tiny (5"?) black and white screen built in if I remember correctly. No wonder Macs looked so good in the 80s...

the Kaypro 10 featured about a 8~10" screen with a built in hard drive (but Kruzin's photo looks like a Kaypro 16?). The Osborne01 had a tiny 5" screen. My father had one of each for his business back around 1981 - he paid a whopping $3000 for each computer, plus another $5,000 for a Corvus 20 MEG hard drive addon for the Osborne01!!! Cool thing about the corvus HD is that you could backup the HD data onto any VCR with a Video In jack.

Kruzin...those pix brought back some memories, thanks!

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by Kruzin
KayPro is an old "portable" PC....imagine a 50lb laptop with a 4" screen

And a Franklin2000 is an AppleII clone (Franklin was sued by Apple, and went out of buiz). We actuall have 2 BRAND NEW, still in the box Franklins down there, that gotta be worth a few bucks to someone

Can KayPro's and Franklin's still be used today? Does anything run on them?

That name though, Franklin2000, it sounds so funny for a computer. "Dude your getting a Franky!"

[Technoid]

Originally posted by hawke_67
Oh man! I really feel sorry for you, I was so sure there was a law against slavery. I hope you at least get a really big paycheck for doing that lousy job. Worst part is that it sounds like your describing MY boss, he allso has few tons of junk AND he has plans about a PC-Museum.

Darn, you beat me to it!

I was going to tell them this

Newer knew that the boss was not unique

[ZokesPro]

I bet that if you piled up all those computers, then you could build a big crappy useless slow running shelter!

That would be soemthign for the Guiness Books!

[TnT]

You should outfit one of those vans with as much of the old computers to make a futuristic looking van from the 70s.

[mallowman]

I actually have a Franklin 2000 in my basement at home, along with a PC clone from the same era. If I could get some new (I feel silly saying that) 5 1/4" drives they would probably still work since its pretty much all solid state (give or take a fan or two) and I believe they still worked when placed out of comission.

I also have a Commodore Vic 20 that still works, with the exception that the BASIC rom somehow got fried, so its not nearly as much fun anymore.

[Kruzin]

MORE PICS!

OK.
I took the camera in again today and got another batch of pics

This is a private school, K-12, with 4 campuses here in Denver, and 2 in other states. I work at the "Main Campus", which is based in an 1890's victorian mansion, and it's old carriage house.

This is the main building (front and rear)

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_011.jpg

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_012.jpg

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_013.jpg

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_014.jpg

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_016.jpg

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_008.jpg

And this is the carriage house (where the high school classes happen)

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_010.jpg

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_009.jpg

And this is what I found on the second floor of the carriage house

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_001.jpg

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_002.jpg

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_003.jpg

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_004.jpg

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_005.jpg

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_006.jpg

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_007.jpg

And this is one of two 1963/4 factory supercharged Studebaker Avantis R2s (the other is burgandy in color, burried in a garage. The boss told me if I could get one running, I could use it. I said I wouldn't want to do that much work on someone else's cars, and asked if he would sell them to me....he's thinking about it...

http://home.attbi.com/~Kruzin-Kenny/work2_017.jpg

[ZokesPro]

That's a nice car.

Get the engine reconditioned and all and it would make for a nice machine!

You can also make a wall of displays with all those monitors, if they work!

[Kruzin]

The car is not as nice as it looks in that pic (though it has a LOT of potential).
The fiberglass body has many major cracks, and the interior is completely shot...not to mention the need for a complete mechanical overhaul. And that's the nicer of the 2 cars....

[ZokesPro]

Then it's a nice pic!

[Kruzin]

Yea...that's it's good side.
It doesn't show the totalled interior, fiberglass fractures, missing bumper sections and headlight bezels, miss-matched jeep hubcaps, or busted up windshield

[KvHagedorn]

The building is very pretty from the outside... what a shame it has been all junked up with that useless crap.

Someone really needs to just dump it all somewhere.. like fill those vans with it and have the whole kit-n-kaboodle compacted or shredded or something.

[Technoid]

Use the device from The Arrival

[RichL]

Originally posted by Umfriend
NASA can cope with that hightech stuff? Next thing you tell me they cn get ppl on the moon (and back!)
Umf

Of COURSE they can!

NASA have copies of Photoshop too!