A Jolly Good Find!

Well, folks, I'm a happy camper today. In a nice contrast against recent reports of list members screwing over other list members, I have some good news. Today, I met up with another list member in the mid-south USA. We had a fund day hopping around a scrapyard, and each of use went home with some cool gear. We found all sorts of goodies: remains of some Interdata minis, a DG Nova 3, a MicroVAX II, TS05 tape drive, piles of RA8x and other drives, a PDP-11/34, several VAX 4000-400s, some 8-bit stuff, and surely much more. The main thing I ended up carrying away, though, due to my schedule and the lack of space in my truck bed for anything else, was a PDP-11/70 carcass. I say 'carcass', because the scrappers had already yanked the cards out of all the cages and because there were a few other things missing. However, I've been lusting for a /70, and finding what I did put me a good ways along towards having a complete system. Cost: $20 for two H960 racks. This /70 is disguised as a DECdatasystem 570. I've got some questions about that, but I'll put them in another thread. The list member and his party were extremely nice. To save me the trouble of driving to a nearby ATM to get cash, a member of the party loaned me the dough. I was also treated to lunch at a nearby restaurant after leaving the scrapyard. Thanks for the hospitality, guys! So now I'm driving around with this PDP-11/70 in my truck. For a bit of fun, I showed it to a girl from work, being the evil bastard that I am. Much to my surprise, she seemed to actually be *interested* in the machine. No running away or screaming occurred. I'll hopefully be going back to this scrapyard in a few weeks to get some of the things I left behind this time. -- Jeffrey S. Sharp jss(a)subatomix.com