pdp-11s and rainbows becoming available...

As usual, contact the person in the post, not me... I don't have anything to do with the machines... - - - - - Rainbow and DECMate fans: Please feel free to cross-post in full to any and all interested LISTSERVS and groups: The Press of Atlantic City NJ is about to begin unloading its supply of well-maintained (and heavily used) DEC Rainbows, and possibly other equipment as well, including one or more PDP-11/84s(? the last -11 built, the half-height equivalent of the PDP-11/70) with lots of heavy-duty port equipment, etc. The monitors, keyboards, and I believe power supplies, chasis components and disk drives are identical to those used on the DECMates and some parts seem identical to components of the earlier VT 1XX and 2XX terminals. Final negotiations between newsroom/pressroom management, MIS and corporate are now underway. It appears the situation will be 12 will go immediately upon paperwork approval, with another three dozen or so, operating, plus parts, to follow. Tentative price for working machines with 2 floppies, no HD, a random monochrome monitor (green, white or amber) and random keyboard (many with special labels on keys for the editing system) and varying amounts of memoryis $25, +packing and shipping, or $25 for direct pickup in Pleasantville, NJ (southern NJ, about 12 miles inland from Atlantic City) We (them of us who have used the machines and kept them alive) would prefer seeing them used or put on display or put to use repairing DECMates rather than scrapped. The price for the -11s and/or their components have not been set, but they are due to be out of service by December. Software is a question - I believe the machines can be released with MS-DOS 3.10, but licenses for the newsroom and classified advertising systems would probably have to be negotiated separately. While the Rainbows have passed my personal Y2K basic complience tests (they keep running and reporting the right date) I have not done any file creation or editing tests. MS-DOS 3.10 is NOT supposed to be Y2K complient. The newsroom software (I forget the vendor) and PDP-11 software in use is reportedly NOT Y2K complient, and you wouldn't want to try to run a newspaper off one of these systems anyway unless you're still using Linotypes. Please post any offers to tips(a)pressplus.com and note in the first line of the body of the message Attention: David M. Razler. I'll pass them on to the folks doing the selling and arranging the shipping. PLEASE - Do not respond to originating address of this message. dmr David M. Razler david.razler(a)worldnet.att.net