PDP-11/93

So am I but not at $2000 for one board. Sooner or later the price will come down. Meanwhile I now have an 11/94 in which everything else is original DEC that runs. If you restored cars you would not let one sit rusting because one original item was not available and a more recent but alternative one would make it go. I have over twenty DEC systems and they all run. I have two (CMD) non DEC SCSI controllers driving DEC RH18-A 2 Gigabyte SCSI drives. Not pure DEC but very representative of what you would have found when the systems were current technology. I would of course prefer totally DEC systems (God knows I sold enough of them) However reality at the time the systems were current was that mixed vendor solutions were the norm. In fact Digital Field Service actively pursued maintenance contracts on third party items. Choose carefully - The Primrose Path or Reality Road Regards ? Rod Smallwood (Digital Equipment Coporation 1975 - 1985) ? ? -----Original Message----- From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Eric Smith Sent: 16 May 2012 18:37 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: PDP-11/93 Rod Smallwood wrote: Those are nice, but a lot of us hobbyists are more interested in running real DEC gear than in replacing a DEC CPU with an aftermarket CPU.