Shipping Big Iron & Rail Right-Of-Way Abandonment

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Brian Chase wrote: They were supposedly all replaced in the early 1990s. My guess is that they may have some systems still warehoused. I used to see this one guy at the local hamfests who was the scruffiest, grungiest, most unpleasant looking throwback from the early 1970s you'd ever laid eyes on, who I was told supposedly was a computer technician for BART. So one day I asked him about the PDP-8s and he said they were long gone (this was probably in 1999 or thereabouts). I related this story to a fellow collector who speculated that this guy may not want people to know there are still PDP-8s somewhere in BART storage, which is a good point. I knew the guy who re-designed the software for the marquees at the stations in the early 1990s, and he said he they were driven by PDP-8 systems. So who knows :) Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *