TRW Report.

Well, as Marvin and Mike have said, it was pretty good day at TRW, tho really hot, like summer... I was not expecting to be working up such a sweat on Halloween. East-coast folks: nyaaah nyaaahh!!! ;} It seems it was 'freebie' day yesterday... my most striking gift was a large box of 3/4" U-matic video tapes (13 of them) put out by Digital, titled 'The VAX-11 Instruction Set' They are of course a a video tutorial on that subject. I popped the first one into the player last night and it put me straight to sleep... they are the typical mid-80s hideously boring industrial instruction format.. the graphics of a school film and voice-over by some un-inflected perfect-diction guy who pronounces mnemonic as 'newmunik'... but it is still a cool find. I think when DVD software gets a little cheaper it would be a good candidate for archival on that format. TO clarify Mike Ford's previous post... the DEC item in question was a PDT-11 (not PDP) with two other raw Shugart 8" drives. There were several other old PCs and some removable HD docking chassis, but I did rescue the PDT and now it lives here. Thanks Mike!! Another listmember delivered several boxes of Good Stuff to me, of interest to The List would be 2 VT-240s, a Wyse terminal, and a box of 5 1/4" floppies full of vintage PC software.. which I *think* Marvin stole from the back of my truck... better him than me. Mike sold me a rack-mount Pentium 133 machine which I plan to use as networking box to talk between my PDP-11s and uVAXs and the more modern world... oh goodie... another Project. Marvin, Mike Ford, Dave Dameron, Aaron Finney [+ three Child Processes he has spawned], and Elliot all came to visit.. several of us then went to Brunch, tho Mike and Dave got lost and Aaron was otherwise occupied [ ;) ] so Marvin and I just talked trash about you guys over chow. Some non-classiccmp friends of mine were there also, as I was sharing one of my spaces with our local Ham repeater group, so they could sell some jun^H^H^H^H 'Merchandise' and raise money for upgrades, which they did. All-in-all a very fun time in SoCal. --------------------------------------------- Questions for the List: Anyone ever use these instruction videos? I'm interested in your opinions if you remember the tapes at all. I recall a thread or two revolving around the PDT-11... before I go slogging back thru the archives.. can someone give me a capsule description of the PDT-11 and where it fit in the DEC scheme of things? Cheers John