Which PDP?

Jerome Fine replies: If I am not mistaken, the PDP-11/23 might have been released just before 1980. It would have arrived in cabinet containing 2 RL02 drives. If the PDP-11/23 arrived a bit later, then the PDP-11/03 would likely qualify instead. Most likely, you can find someone who is running out of space and wants to discard their RL02 drives and cabinet if you are patient. The question is how you are going to use the system and why 1979 is a cutoff? If you can allow models into the mid 1980s, then a much smaller PDP-11/73 in a BA23 box using 5 1/4" hard drives or even SCSI drives (although a Qbus host adapter is usually still expensive). What are you reasons for the 1979 cutoff and how will you use the PDP-11? You will probably need a VT100 as the terminal, although that may also not qualify in which case a VT52 would be OK. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.