Contact original emailer if interested....
Whoever gets this deal owes me... what with the two RK05's and all!
Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lundberg" <jlundberg at netins.net>
To: <jwest at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 12:43 PM
Subject: old DEC mini computer
Hi
I have a DEC 310 system that needs a new home. This is a desk system with
four 8 inch floppy drives. I also have 2 RK05 rack mounted drives and a wide
carriage DEC printer. The system has not been powered up in many years but
everything worked the last time it was on.
Would you know of anyone who would be interested in acquiring this
equipment?
Thanks for your time,
John Lundberg
Contact original emailer below if interested....
Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "Young, Steve W" <steve.w.young at lmco.com>
To: <jwest at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:50 PM
Subject: micro pdp
>I have a micro PDP 11C23-RE with 1.5 Meg memory, tape drive and floppy,
> RD52A, Ethernet card, 4 line card. Anyone want to buy it? Also vt240
> terminal. I am in San Jose. thanks
>
>
I have not researched this further than what you see below.
Contact original emailer directly...
Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "cindy stewart" <patience1554 at yahoo.com>
To: <jwest at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 10:01 PM
Subject: We have what you want
> Dear Sir:
> We have a complete DEC PDP 11 system. If you are interested in
> purchasing it, please write back to this address.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Cindy Stewart
> St. Augustine, FL
Here's one for our UK friends...
Contact original emailer directly...
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Moorhead" <mmxseawaves at enterprise.net>
To: <jwest at classiccmp.org>
Cc: <mmxseawaves at enterprise.net>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 7:09 PM
>I have documentation and tapes for RT11 and TSX11 plus sundry other
> docs. I need the space, how can I dispose of them free to a good home.
>
> I can also give you a contact for 2x pdp11/24 and 1x pdp11/34 but they
> may have been disposed of already.
>
> -----------------
> Mike Moorhead
Gloucester, United Kingdom
Contact original poster directly... gear is in Tracy, Ca.
Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "Taylor, Joe (US SSA)" <Joe.Taylor at baesystems.com>
To: "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:26 AM
Subject: RE: LSI 11-83 and more stuff
> Hello Jay,
> I got one machine with several cpu's, Memory cards, Hard disk and
> controller, and serial cards. It is not a Dec chassis but some other
> builder but most of the boards are Dec. I think I even have a extra
> power supply and some software (RT-11 and RTS) but I will have to look
> for that. Not much documentation I have one PDP-11 cpu book.
> I think I even have one of the last versions of the cpu card something
> like a 11-87 or something like that.
>
> I even have a real vt100 some place.
>
> I live in Tracy Ca.
>
> No date that I have to get rid of the stuff, I just want it to go to a
> good home. I like the old machine I just don't have time to fool with it
> like I would like to.
Contact original poster directly...
Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Midgley" <bmidgley at xmission.com>
To: <jwest at classiccmp.org>
> I rescued a pdp-11 (approx 6u rackmount size) on its way to the
> landfill. The faceplate is missing and the operating condition is
> unknown. I can see a full-height hard drive and some kind of tape drive
> in the front. Do you know anyone who's interested in having it?
>
> thanks
> Brad
I was contacted off-list by a guy who said....
"I wrote the software in the EPROM on the MMD-2 and did some PC design work
for E&L Instruments way back in the 70's, so found your site really
interesting. Would love to find out if anyone actually remembers those."
Apparently he didn't join the list, but if someone here is keen on talking
to the guy about the MMD-2 and related stuff, contact me off-list and I'll
pass on his email address.
Jay West
>
>Subject: Re: Windoze reqs
> From: Josh Dersch <derschjo at msu.edu>
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:11:43 -0800
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only <cctech at classiccmp.org>
>
>If I may ask, what was glitchy about video modes in Windows 3.1? I ran
>it at 640x480 for years without any obvious video issues...
Same here, I still have a copy running on a laptop at that resolution.
>As an aside, I had Win95 running on EGA for awhile just as an
>experiment. On a 386sx-20 with 4mb ram on a 65MB Miniscribe MFM drive.
>It ran, but that's about the only good thing I can attribute to the
>experience ;).
Not enough ram, at 8mb it become moderately useful. I used to make
headless print network servers that way. Install 95B, strip out OE/IE
and cruft install laser printer driver put on net. It usually fits
well in 100MB. Prefered CPU for that was any of the miniboard 386 or
486s but one time I had a 386sx/16 brick and used it with good results
(it was a slow printer to start with). The boards with 86sx were best
cooling was never an issue so the fans could fail and CPU coolers
were not needed.
Allison
>Josh
>
>Fred Cisin wrote:
>>>> 3.00 would (and did) run on 8088. One of the font editors that I used
>>>>
>>
>> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>>
>>> Not only that, it worked properly with a CGA.
>>>
>>
>> 3.10 would also work with CGA, but like all video modes, it was somewhat
>> glitchy. It appears to me that 3.10 was written by people using
>> 800 x 600. With a little playing around, it's probably not too hard to
>> determine which video board they used.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>Subject: Re: *updating* 8088's
> From: Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:49:01 -0800 (PST)
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>
>--- Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>
>> The one I have has an 8088, model 8530-002. Well
>> actually I pulled
>> the board out to use the case for an SB180 with
>> Adaptec SCSI/MFM
>> adpator, a Miniscribe 20mb disk plus reusing the
>> 3,5" disk and
>> power. Made a nice case for that. Been stripping
>> the PCs board
>> since.
>
> For one those are not vanilla floppy drives, unless
>I'm seriously mistaken. If that thing has an 8088, I
>want a picture. We all make mistakes, I'm not trying
>to harangue, but I've never heard of any PC/2 sporting
>an 8088.
> Are you sure it's a PC/2 (you know what I mean - PS/2)?
Yes it is. If you want a picture send a camera, no digital
picturs possible, USB camera not an option OS is NT4.
Allison
>
>
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I was reading this article:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2007-11-18_D8T08P0O0&show_article=1
...and was wondering how many vintage machines one could find if they
traipsed around China for a summer and visited all the various e-waste
processing gulags that (litterally) litter the country.
There is literally billions of pounds of e-waste entering China every
year. If even a fraction of a fraction of that is old systems that are
worth collecting and a fraction of that is still in some sort of complete
and unwrecked condition, there is a vintage computer bounty waiting to be
plundered by a brave privateer.
The trick is getting it back to your place of origin ;)
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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