The guy who threw out the 11/70 (was: Vax 8600 on Ebay)

I tried for several months to give away a Vax 11/780 and a couple of tons (literally) of DEC equipment including a pair of 11/34's with enough spare parts to built a couple of other 11/34's. The whole lot went to the scrapper. Of course this was in 1998-1999, but it was all available for free pickup near Dallas. The sad thing was that the whole lot had just been decommsioned and was a couple of months off a DEC/Compaq service contract. There were a couple of pickup loads of manuals and a large raised floor computer room with modular half glass walls, a Liebert A/C unit and a Liebert UPS/power conditioner included. All of the software backup tapes were included. There were racks and racks of tapes. I didn't have storage space and I'm not into large systems anyway, so it was finally scrapped. This was all located at a LOF Automotive glass plant in Sherman, TX. I also had a HP 3000 setup with disk drives, a 9 track tape unit and a lot of terminals, but no takers, so that one was scrapped also. It was at a former Kraft vegetable oil refinery in Sherman. When that plant was shutdown last year, there were 25-30 original Compaq '486 machine s in original configuration and 10-20 IBM 64k cassette port PC's in the attic of the QA lab. They had already scrapped a big IBM unit called a System 7. I remember cabling for the System 7 in around 1973-74. James Eric Dittman wrote: one, and