Digital Equipment stuff available

-----Original Message----- From: Will Roberts [mailto:oldbear at arctos.com] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 1:51 AM To: Classic Computer tech list Subject: Digital Equipment stuff available It's finally come to that time when I have to reduce the amount of stuff I have been hoarding. (My wife wants to move to a smaller house.) I have a number of items of DEC hardware and software from around 1980. I haven't done a complete inventory, but among the items are: 2 Rainbow 100 personal computers both with hard disk (5mB? 10mB?), extended memory and accessory "I-drive" for reading IBM pc-format double sided diskettes. 1 Decmate II word-processor using PDP-8 architecture in a form factor similar to the Rainbow. 1 Decmate word-processor. This is a the VT-100 type terminal containing a PDP-8 processor, mounted on a pedestal base which contains dual 8-inch floppy drives and power supply. (The VT-100 type keyboard has some missing key caps.) 3 VR-201 monitors (At least one is amber, the others are green and possibly white phosphor CRTs.) 2 VR-241 RGB color monitors incl. BNC cables. 1 VT-240 serial terminal 3 LK-201 keyboards. Two of these have the "gold key" word processing key caps. 1 Floor stand for Rainbow. Holds system unit in a vertical position. Designed by DEC for proper airflow. 1 LQP-02 wide letter-quality impact printer. 1 Diablo 620 daisy-wheel impact printer with selectable serial or parallel interface. 2 LA-50 dot matrix printers. 2 DECpc 420sx personal computers. Interconnecting cables for the monitors and printers, etc. Many various "DEC certified" software packages. 3rd party software for things like graphic design, calendaring, telecom, etc. DEC handbooks, support documents, catalogs of DEC and 3rd party software, users group newsletters, early FIDO bbs software and manuals, transcripts of online discussions about DEC pc hardware, and more. Several boxes of 8-inch diskettes for use in the RX01 drives of the Decmate I. Color plastic storage boxes for these diskettes. Also, DEC-formatted 5.25-inch diskettes for Rainbow and DECmate II. Printer ribbons, extra daisy-wheels in many fonts, some internal components such as OEM disk mounting hardware and cables for the Rainbows, etc. I am located in an inner suburb of Boston and would like to send all this stuff to be adopted by a good home. If interested, please email me at oldbear at arctos.com Regards, Will