9 Mar
2007
9 Mar
'07
10:20 a.m.
Andrew Back wrote:
Thanks for the replies... I should have guessed at the
value of a
Straight-8 given I too have never seen one for sale and their form is of
somewhat iconic status.
An 8/E would seem much more pragmatic, and the cost from a reseller if
still stocked and not risen too much pallatable. Will look into it more
and the benefits before decided to part with other kit.
Incidentally the first computer I owned (a 2U high PDP11/03 IIRC) had an
RX02 drive.
I feel the need to ask - what is it that makes DEC stuff so popular and
collectible, versus other machines of the same time period? Generally they're
equally as interesting, and often more so (IMHO) due to all the quirks and
design differences versus the more mainstream DEC stuff.
So... why? More of a community? Better documentation? Better hardware or
software availability? What do collectors *do* with their running DEC systems
anyway?
I'm not knocking the DEC crowd in any way - just trying to work out what it is
that makes the systems so much more popular than anything else of the time. I
feel like I'm missing some vital piece of info :-)
cheers
Jules