Control Data 1700 Vintage Computer PARTS CDC 1700 Variac Core Memory 1950s PARTS For Sale

Control Data 1700 Vintage Computer PARTS CDC 1700 Variac Core Memory 1950s PARTS
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Control Data 1700 Vintage Computer PARTS CDC 1700 Variac Core Memory 1950s PARTS:
$749.99

Heyo to all you vintage computing and Control Data collectors!


I\'ve got a little Minnesota special on the board today...


A bunch of PARTS for the Control Data CDC 1700!


Now I\'m no vintage tech expert - at all - but I\'m sure that there are some parts missing from this set. I\'m also sure that if you\'re into computer restoration, you probably won\'t find more parts for the CDC 1700 in one place. I truly believe that computer and vintage tech restoration will be something akin to classic car restoration of today. Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, engineers and their protégés will be sitting in their basement (don\'t even need a garage!) and restoring the the history of the digital world, cord by cord, memory thingamajig by memory thingamajig and trying to figure out where the world we know today began. Well... a big portion of it began at Control Data! Not in Silicon Valley but in the frozen tundra of Minnesota! In the 1950s, Minnesota was at the cutting edge of the digital world. Crazy, eh?


I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ALL THESE PARTS ARE OR WHAT THEY DO. I DON\'T KNOW IF THEY WORK OR HOW THEY WORK. IT IS NOT COMPLETE.


Only the \'core memory module\' alone is for sale on for $988. This has 6 more boxes worth of stuff for about $500 more. I\'m pretty sure that\'s fair. The big sort of black box that says Control Data 1700 has some rust on it but there is very little to no rust on the other parts. The big black thing was out in the open while the other stuff was packed in boxes. Please ask for more pictures if you have questions on any specific parts or pieces. I don\'t have a clue what they do but I can take a picture for you, no problemo. It comes with a few more vintage Control Data books that aren\'t pictured as well.


They sat in a storage locker of Harvey \'Socko\' Johnson for 30+ years and originally came from Hamline University, where he was a computer science professor for many years.


It is literally 6/7 big boxes of wires and boards and buttons and variacs etc... etc... that\'s why the shipping is $500. It is hundreds and hundreds of pounds. I bet that it will be over $500 to ship it all but if by some miracle it\'s less than that, I\'ll totally refund ya the difference. The core memory module and the other little boards etc... will be PICKED UP LOCALLY IN ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.



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