1 May
2015
1 May
'15
6:30 p.m.
Ah! I see it, stamped "AG". Cool. Thanks! Neat backstory, sounds like a
good time.
Best,
Sean
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Don North <north at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
On 5/1/2015 3:40 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
How cool, thanks, Ian! Looks like my VAX herd is
mostly from Albuquerque,
with a few from Westfield to round out the mix. I was curious about my
11/34 as well but I can't cursorily locate the serial tag on it. I'll have
to give it a more thorough once-over at some point ... Neat :O
Many of the PDP-11s in the 70s/80s were built in the DEC plants in Puerto
Rico (Aguadilla
and San German). DEC ran their own charter aircraft between Worcester and
Puerto Rico
back then that carried parts and people back and forth. If I recall it was
a Lockheed Constellation
that had a big cargo bay amidship, and a small 6 to 8 cabin in the tail of
the aircraft. When I
was with the DEC PDP-11 diagnostic group back inr the late 70s I went down
to Aguadilla on
this aircraft to bring up the 11/60 diagnostics at the site for
manufacturing use. Days on the
floor helping debug issues in manufacturing, nites at the local bar on the
beach. I just remember
the rats in the palm trees staring down at us while we drank and ate. And
of course snorkling
at the beach when the weekend came.
I believe on many of the inspection stickers you might see AG (Aguadilla)
or SG (San German)
and WF (Westfield, MA which did final assembly).
Don