24 Jan
2012
24 Jan
'12
10:34 p.m.
On 01/24/2012 02:45 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Dave
McGuire<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Thank you! You are always welcome here. Come out and hack on some
stuff!
So a brief truck trip to Maryland netted some really great stuff from an
old friend. This is stuff I'd seen before, but he surprised me by saying
"hey, bring a truck!" ...so I did, and here's what I came home with:
IBM 029 keypunch station, complete and in excellent condition
DECsystem-2020 (yes, another one!)
DEC RM03 14" disk drive (aka CDC 9762), but sadly no disk packs
DEC TU45 magtape drive, in pieces but likely repairable
DEC LA120 printing terminal, dirty but in good shape otherwise
VAX 8350 w/Unibus, Unibus SCSI, BI-bus SCSI, and CIBCI
A few other DEC items, RL02, RX02, small PDP-11/23 system
Very nice. More reason for me to come out and visit. My 8300 still has a broken Unibus (UET module
problems, I think), and
I have neither Unibus nor BI SCSI for it, just a KDB50. I'd also love
the chance to see a 36-bit machine up close again - been too many
years since I had my hand on that kind of iron.
Maybe we can get one running! I have this RM03 drive; not sure of
its operational condition. If I can find a pack or two, maybe I can
talk Rich Alderson or Mike Thompson into writing me a bootable pack and
we can do some tasty TOPS-20 goodness.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA