We recently picked up a couple pickups of vintage HP Systems. First, a pallet of HP Itanium systems, storage, SAN controllers, and a paper box full of OpenVMS licenses for VAX, Alpha, and Itanium. The second pickup was eleven HP9000 PA-RISC systems (mostly K-Class, and some workstations), and a bunch of spare parts.

Last weekend BitHistory picked up a total of 5 lots of items. 2 Pickups in Pennsylvania, 2 in Ohio, and 1 in Delaware. Was a good mixture of Commodore 64, Apple II, Digital Equipment Corp., and IBM PC related items. Lots of hardware, and lots of books, manuals, and software that will be considered for archival.

Who Remembers the ANIMUSIC demos? ANIMUSIC was a company that specializing in the 3D visualization of MIDI-based music. The company is known for its Animusic compilations of computer-generated animations, based on MIDI events processed to simultaneously drive the music and on-screen action, leading to and corresponding to every sound. (Wikipedia). Source: https://archive.org/details/animusic-demo-dvd_202012

“Vintage Automation: Excerpt from Army film “The Electronic Culture” (circa 1991). In the mid-1980’s, the DOD embarked on a program to increase computer automation and electronic data sharing to reduce paperwork, increase efficiencies and save money. This film explains the CALS (Computer-Aided Logistics Supply) system. It is an interesting look at the computer technologies of the mid 1980’s to early 1990’s, showing many vintage devices such as Zenith Data Systems, Commodore Amiga 2000, AT&T disk systems, optical storage, networking and much more. Good quality color film. The Army AH-64 helicopter […]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/12/stroll-down-memory-lane-with-this-1996-instruction-video-on-how-to-internet/