16 Jun
2004
16 Jun
'04
1 p.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
>Dunno how early I am, but I'm early enough that I had to submit a
>justification-for-joining. I've been on the list ever since
>
>
I don't remember if I had to apply or not. I still have all email back
to 1994 archived, so I could look and see when I joined. I still
remember my first series of posts. I was given a Vax 11/780, all tapes,
all docs (a whole wall of them), software, a bunch of terminal
concentrators, 10-12 DEC laser printers, several wide fast dot matrix
printers, a couple of really big report printers, 35-40 terminals and a
couple of DEC PC's used as terminals. I wasn't into big stuff then or
now so I turned to the list to try and find it a home. It turned out
there were serveral Vax deskside servers in the same lot. A list member
from San Francisco offered to come get it but after
making arrangements,
I never heard from him again. There were no other takers, so
it was
dumpstered and scrapped. Not scrapped as in break off the gold fingers,
but mixed with scrap steel and really scrapped. The same fate awaited
the PDP-8 and the two PDP-11's from the same factory.
I just remember this was my introduction to the list. It has been fun.
James
http://www.vzavenue.net/~jrice54/classiccomp2.html