Surviving PDP-11 stats (was: Qbus split I&D?)

Roe Peterson roeapeterson at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 16:24:55 CDT 2015


I have an original 11/15, not currently completely working.

> On Mar 18, 2015, at 8:14 AM, Sean Caron <scaron at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> As a data point, mine is an 11/34a and the original customer was Western
> Michigan University. I do believe that the 11/34 is one of the more common
> models; you tend to see a fair number of them in private hands.
> 
> I agree, the 11/60 has always struck me as the most uncommon.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Sean
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:19 AM, Paul Anderson <useddec at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I might be picking up a 55 this summer, and it's not even on my list.
>> 
>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Paul Birkel <pbirkel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at update.uu.se>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 04:08:26PM -0400, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> ...  How many 11/70s are in the hands of folks like us?
>>>> 
>>>> Quite a few I would think. We have no less then three at the club. And
>>>> of the top of my head there are at least three more owners on this
>> list.
>>>> 
>>>> Given how many of the more rare machines people have, I'd venture that
>>>> there are at least 25, if not more, 11/70 machines in private hands.
>>>> 
>>>> /P
>>> 
>>> So, I've never thought of the 11/70 as being "that rare", but "at least
>> 25"
>>> still sounds to me as being fairly uncommon as PDP-11's go?
>>> 
>>> How (relatively) common are the remaining early 11's these days?  With
>> some
>>> lumping, and ignoring the F11/J11-based ones, in these categories: 20/15;
>>> 10/05; 40/35; 45; 50; 55; 60; 70; 34/04; 44?  The last two I'm thinking
>> are
>>> still quite common; really no idea about the others ... although the
>> number
>>> of remaining 11/60's seems to be in the bare-handful category.  50's and
>>> 55's might be similarly low?
>>> 
>>> -----
>>> paul
>> 


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