Sunday, January 23, 2022

Nixdorf 620 Terminals (Entrex Data/Scope) spotted on reddit...in Denmark? Or Australia?

January 23, 2022

So, does NoResponsibility3745 own them?  Do they intend to preserve them?  Sell them?  What is the status?  Well, since Jan 23, NoResponsibility3745 has been silent, so we may never know.  I have sent NoResponsibility3745 a direct message, as well as left a reply in the reddit post thread.  

Hopefully we will hear an update someday soon, and these terminals can be preserved and/or restored.  And maybe even reunited with one of our restored systems to run their proprietary communication once again!

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/sashmt/what_am_i_looking_at_here/

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Update:  Based on this recent reddit post from January 17, 2023, it appears that NoResponsibility3745 is from Denmark, and currently lives in Australia:

Jeg er en 21 årige dansk-australia som har boet i Danmark i 4 år og er lige flyttet tilbage til Australien nu her for et par måneder siden. 

I am a 21 year old Danish-Australian who has lived in Denmark for 4 years and just moved back to Australia a couple of months ago. 

So, were these Nixdorf/Entrex "Data/Scope" Terminals in Denmark, or Australia?  Based on the timeline, the original post was made on January 23, 2022.  This post is from January 17, 2023, and by the sentence above, it sounds like NoResponsibility3745 was in Denmark from ~2019 to Oct-Nov 2022.  Following this logic, NoResponsibility3745 would have been in Denmark at the time that the original post was made to Reddit.  So, were they indeed in Denmark?  Are they still?  We continue to hold out hope that they can be found...

All of my messages and replies to NoResponsibility3745 on reddit have yet gone unanswered.  I'd still love to hear from you, NoResponsibility3745, so please reply if you ever have a chance, thanks so much!

Monday, October 25, 2021

The MERA-ELZAB 7951 Terminal for the Polish "SEECHECK" system - Clone of the Entrex Data/Scope

The MERA-ELZAB 7951 Terminal...why does it resemble an Entrex Data/Scope so closely?

And yet, is not the same?

But even the keyboard layout and key labels match the "full keyboard" layout terminals from the Entrex 480/Nixdorf 620

during an already-scheduled trip to Europe, I added a visit to Poland just to see (and hopefully buy) one of these terminals...and against all odds...I succeeded!  It's a wild story, for another video and post...

Sunday, August 1, 2021

reddit r/MechanicalKeyboards u/Pugwan recreating an Entrex 480 029 Keypunch-style keyboard???

August 01, 2021

Group: r/MechanicalKeyboards


I replied on April 9, 2022 with my vote of support, info directing to pages on this website, including this very page.
Excellent effort.  We would love to see some updates soon!
Only one suggestion, to make the upper right "HELP!" button black instead of read to match the original terminals.

And a while later, I found this Twitter feed which references both this Reddit above, AND my website here for reference, Nice work!
かわいいな
にるコッポラ gangstre🐶

Monday, March 15, 2021

Entrex Data/Terminal 05520-001 161A from JCPenny Auction "The Trapezoid"

 @Silent700 over Discord ClassicCMP Terminals Channel on March 4, 2021


Terminal acquired from a 
Grafe Auction on February 16, 2021
JCPenny, Archives and Historical Items
Lot #811
Original Auction                    Archived Auction

Saturday, December 12, 2020

Entrex 480 in Frenchtown NJ

In July of 2020, the attention of several enthusiasts in the Vintage Computing & Restoration space was drawn to this auction of an abandoned storage facility in Frenchtown, New Jersey.

I was certainly among them.  Why?  Well, the Entrex 480 shown in this auction listing.  The fact that this entire website is all about this system quite demanded it come to my attention, actually.

Well, long story short, yes, I acquired the Entrex 480 lot.  

AND the corresponding Sweda 750 lot, shown below...

Saturday, November 28, 2020

Terminal Nixdorf

On Ebay.de (Germany!  Again!).  Shipping ONLY to Germany, so of course, those of us in the USA wouldn't see this...

Auction Archive            Bid History Archive

History from the seller, auto-translated from German:

Hello, good evening. My home is currently being renovated, so I can hardly get to the computer ... It took a while.
The terminal belonged to the Biberach District Office in 88400 Biberach. It was used there and at some point stored in the warehouse, I don't know more about it. There are no other parts from this series - I'm sorry.
The IT department there will move and the old building will be demolished, in the course of which the terminal would have been thrown away - an unforgivable mistake. I myself collected computers for a while, from the 80s (CBM 8032 and so on), so I knew that something like this shouldn't happen and I sold it on ebay on behalf of the district administration.
Greeting,
M. Mensing

Well, we got it.  Well, more like we secured it so far.  And yes, we paid too much money.  But we'll get to that later...

Sunday, November 1, 2020

Core Memory "Modern" Replacement (for Data General Nova, DCC D-116, Etc)

WARNING:  The below memory card will work ONLY in the "Classic" Nova, but not in Nova 1200 or newer models.

Upon one of my several visits to the Living Computer Museum in Seattle (back in 2019, before they closed permanently), I became quite fascinated with the "not-so-core" memory board in their Data General Nova on display.


The above 2 images were stolen from notes.whatthefuck.computer
Below images were taken by me.

Saturday, October 24, 2020

DeSegi - C64 in the [Entrex / Nixdorf] terminal

From https://forum.classic-computing.de/forum/index.php?thread/17730-c64-im-terminal/&postID=260682#post260682

According to the forum discussion thread, If I translate and interpret it correctly, DeSegi bought this as it is on eBay in October 2019.  That's awesome!

But the questions remain...

  • who did the customization work? 
  • which keyboard style was this terminal before this was done?  
  • Do the original electrical components and/or Key Tronic keyboard still exist?



Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Vintage 1976 Digital Computer Controls, Inc. D-116 Computer Maintenance Manual

Original eBay Auction                       Archived eBay Auction

Unfortunately, we were out bid on this one.  Congratulations to the winner!

We hope to connect with him/her somewhere soon along the way, so if you're reading this, please send us an email!