14 Jul
2005
14 Jul
'05
1:32 a.m.
Bob,
I plan on going to the MIT Flea.
I used Apollos 1982-1986 and have none now.
If you have a running sub-50 pound system to get
rid of, you can consider me, or not.
And thanks for archiving.
John A.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Shannon <bshannon at tiac.net>
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: WOW!!!! $15k DEC PDP-8 CLASSIC MINICOMPUTER SYSTEM DIGITAL PDP8
I've got scads of Apollo hardware and documentation.
Most of it needs a new home, but there has been little interest so far.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Kossow" <aek at spies.com>
To: <classiccmp at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: WOW!!!! $15k DEC PDP-8 CLASSIC MINICOMPUTER SYSTEM DIGITAL PDP8
I think Suns will always be collectable, as they
are now. There are
some
weird things they have made over the years that
people seek.
Early machines from the 'workstation wars', Apollo and Tektronix come to
mind, may be of interest in the future. There doesn't appear to be much
on the technical doc or software side around for these. I tried contacting
they guy who was working on the Apollo port for NetBSD to get the tech
info
he was able to collect, but got nowhere.
People seem to have saved the later SGI IRIS (3xxx series) though,
probably
because of the neat graphics demos.