4 Jun
1999
4 Jun
'99
12:09 a.m.
--- Anthony Clifton - Wirehead <wirehead(a)retrocomputing.com> wrote:
I have in my garage:
(1) PDP-11/34 with RK05j and RK05f
(1) PDP-11/84 with RA80 and TU80
(3) PDP-8/I, one with high speed paper tape punch reader and
one with DECTape
(1) ASR-33 which goes with the 8/Is
Nice set.
I would like these machines to leave my garage,
preferably all
at the same time, and travel to someone else's place who has:
1. Enough space to give them a permanent home
2. Enough time to restore and preserve them as they SHOULD BE
3. Enough love for them to not turn them into some kind of weird
investment scheme for EBay
4. ...and Enough money to bring an appropriately sized vehicle
with a lift gate to Des Moines, Iowa to retrieve them
I suspect that many people on the list have number one, quite a few have number
two, a good many of us have number three, but number four is the kicker.
I'm in Ohio and I'm not prepared to haul 4+ racks from Iowa (plus I already
have an 8/i and some of the other stuff)
At any rate, I intend to only sell these to someone on
ClassicCmp.
They will NOT appear on Ebay, Usenet or any other forum frequented
by people who are not necessarily collectors.
Good for you.
The 8/Is are 3 out of a set of just under 4000 ever
produced.
Wow. I haven't looked up the numbers in Doug Jones' FAQ lately; I thought
there were more of them made than that.
I'd like ideas, suggestions, etc. If anyone
REALLY, REALLY wants these
and just know you have to have them, and you have the above characteristics
and you have money, trades, etc. I'm willing to consider that too.
Of all the systems you've mentioned, the -8/i with the DECtape is the only
part that I would really want, partially because my only DECtape is a
TU56/TD8E combo, and because I have always wanted to run OS/8 on my own
-8/i, but I have no mass storage device for it (only high-speed paper tape)
You are over 10 hours drive from my house, and I'm a lot closer than most of
the people on the list. It's a worthy goal, but to make a road trip from,
say, California, would be an epic journey. If anyone from the East Coast
is willing to make the trip, I could be interested in participating in the
western leg of it.
-ethan
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