25 Nov
1999
25 Nov
'99
5:57 p.m.
Dag Spicer wrote:
Hi Enrico,
You may heartened to know to that the History Center has a complete,
runnable, IBM 4381 in its collection. It was in use up to time of donation
(last October) at the A. C. Delco plant in Rochester, NY.
The machine is on display and in excellent condition. All necessary
cabling, and I believe system software (we received about 100 reels of tape
we haven't read yet), a million punch cards (literally), and manuals formed
part of the donation.
Is it running/runnable?
Have you investigated the legal aspects of running the original IBM software
on it? I received a mean letter from a guy, apparently not from IBM, saying
it was illegal to run the VM version the previous owner had installed.
Just now I saw thet you are the Editorial Board of the IEEE Annals. I love
it. Why don't you add a small section dedicate to hobbyist restoration
suggestions or ways to meet other guys/machines. I find it hard to
locate other persons with this hobby, at least in Italy
e.
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10143 Torino, Italy
Wanted, for hobbyist use, any type of PDP and microVAX hardware,software,
manuals,schematics,etc. and DEC-10 docs or manuals
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