13 May
1998
13 May
'98
3:50 p.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
That is good news (for us). Do you have contact details for anyone who
has one?
Are you connected with the Rhode Island group? If so I would appreciate
some pointers on how to operate such a group. We have this huge
collection here gathering dust in a storehouse but plans are in place to
move it to a location where some, hopefully many, of these machines will
be restored to working state.
Regards,
Hans B Pufal
In a desperate effort to get on topic, I dug this out
of the pile...
Yes, on topic messages were getting rather thin on the ground ;-)
French minicomputers...hmmm, those sound interesting.
I rarely see French
made electronics here - I would like to see how it compares to other
things. What was the name of the manufacturer?
Micral, SEA, Bull are three that come immediately to mind. I don't have
access to the inventory yet.
Among the DEC
machines I saw was a complete PDP-9. How rare are these?
You may never see one ever again!
The 18-bit DEC machines were never a really big hit (they were odd ducks,
mostly made for process control), and really did not survive well at all.
I would venture to say that there are probably less than ten of the 18 bit
machines in captivity today, and that includes PDP-1s, 7s, 9s, 9/Ls, and
the various 15s.