San Diego DEC Rescue

Well, after wading thru miles of corporate red tape, and jumping several Dilbertian hurdles, we managed to rescue two 11/44s and two 11/23s from a Big Company in San Diego. Marvin Johnston drove from Santa Barbara (and back!) to get the machines, which are all in one 7' DEC rack. There is also an RL02, 1 (or 2?) SCSI drives attached to one of the /44s, about 20 RL02 packs, and a Blue Wall. It appears the machines are running RSX. I'll know more about them next week when I get them back up here to Quincy in the northern Sierras. Thanks go to Sellam who first alerted me to the deal *last year*, and of course to Marvin who drove over 400 miles on very short notice... More legacy machinery saved from the dumpster... if things work out I am strongly considering exhibiting at least one of the /44s at VCF 5 - along with a PR1ME 750 if we can get it's swap disk crankiness sorted out. Cheers John