18 Jul
2001
18 Jul
'01
11:50 a.m.
This time, I went all ~1400 miles to San Diego.
I've been saving my money
for this one, and it paid off nicely. I picked up:
You're crazier than I am!
* PDP-11/20 -- According to the owner, this one worked
last time it was
booted (no idea when that was), and I should expect the monitor to still
be loaded in the core.
* PDP-11/20 -- Not known to be in working condition. Missing a few
switches up front and maybe a few boards inside. Basicaly, a spares
machine. The faceplate is the older one that just says "PDP11" instead of
"PDP11/20", and I'll probably transplant it to the working machine for
that reason.
I'd say make *IT* the working system and use the working system as the
parts machine. Don't just transplant the faceplate!
* TU56 -- Looks to be in great condition.
* TC11 -- Looks to be in great condition.
* DECtapes -- About 100 of them. I think there's an operating system and
a fortran compiler in there somewhere.
* A few printsets.
Sweet!
I'd like to find a couple of RK05 drives, maybe a
PCxx paper tape
reader/punch, and their controllers to round out this system. Anybody
have any of these up for trade?
I won't tell you how many years it's taken me to locate a papertape
reader/punch, and it's for a PDP-8/e I'm getting.
Zane
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