24 Jan
2012
24 Jan
'12
7:45 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
?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.
Cheers,
-ethan