PDP by the pound

Dave McGuire wrote: In the Kevex, the other card cage which presumably had the other cards for the microscope /lab system were already stripped out. I think the cover over the qbus chassis saved the qbus cards in it. But I have the whole 8" floppy subsystem all in one cabinet and the DSD qbus controller. They made controllers for this 210 floppy cabinet for the pdp-8's and Unibus pdp's too. This is the third or fourth such console/cabinet I've picked up in the last year or two. The others were Tracor Northern, one which I believed contained the cards for a control system of scanning electron microscope and the other was for some kind of VLSI or electronic circuit development. They were 11/23 based too. These were all picked up at the local university auctions! We did had an EDAX system come thru about a year ago. It came with the Electron microscope! The salvager who bought the microscope didn't/forgot to buy the control unit, which I did for the pdp system. When he realized his mistake he made me an offer I could not refuse! By the way, anyone is welcome to these chassis and the boards for them (minus the qbus boards and drives) for the cost of shipping. I de-racked them from the steel console/cabinets so all that is left are the chassis and the graphic card sub-systems. My brother picked up a Comtal Vision One graphic system with an 11/73 in it and the cabinet with three rows of graphic boards (around 30-40 cards I think) is still in his carport. It was used for astronomy in at one of the the many observatories here in Arizona! I believe he still has most of the cabling, the Color Graphic monitors that came with the system. He, of course, removed the qbus boards and the 9-track tape drive but it otherwise is intact. He wants to get rid of it to someone who might be interested in it. Cheers Tom