Glad to hear things worked out well. While I would have loved to have the Convex system,
I'm really glad you found it a good home. I understand why you'd want to have
someone over there take it rather than having to schlep it all the way over to the US
first :)
And, good luck on your PDP-10 sale. Maybe Paul Allen will Buy It Now...
I look forward to seeing the report of the unload, and your new computer room! Collecing
large iron is a hard thing to do, and finding a place to set it all up is difficult.
I'm currently looking to buy my own house, and "computer-able" space is the
main criteria I'm looking for. I have a couple of storage units full of large
computers (Vaxen, Primes, tape drives, disk drives, etc). At home, I have a walk-out
basement that has become a computer room, but it's not really big enough. There's
a couple of Vaxen, PDP-11's, a Data General and some Primes that live there, and
it's pretty full.
Good luck!
-Ian