PDP-11 help needed (Cambridge, MA)

Please contact Steve directly if you can help him... Bill - - - - - Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 09:29:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen L Moshier <steve(a)moshier.net> To: <mrbill(a)pdp11.org> Subject: pdp11 hardware Hi, in the course of answering a question about data formats for the GNU C compiler PDP-11 maintainer, I just ran across your fine web site. I have somewhere around 1000 pounds of Unibus and Q bus PDP-11 hardware down in the basement. If you know of an opportunity to swap or obtain equipment, what I would like to do (some day) is get a system running again in order to read out approximately 200 rolls of mag tape that are also stored in the basement and then probably get rid of most or all of the collection. The available hard drives are broken or rusted out, unfortunately -- some 5-, 8-, and 14-inch Winchesters, all dead. If you know where to get working replacements, maybe there is some hope for this project. Thanks, Steve Moshier From: Stephen L Moshier <steve(a)moshier.net> To: Bill Bradford <mrbill(a)mrbill.net> Subject: Re: pdp11 hardware Bill, The museum pieces and I are in Cambridge, Massachusetts. You are welcome to send the information to your mailing list, The stuff has never been inventoried. Some of the items, picked up as spares, are still in original sealed packaging. The dual DECtape is nice to look at. It used to work and is probably repairable. I don't really know how may computers there are. There is an 11-thirty-something, several 11-04 crates, several LSI-11 crates. The system that I actually used was handmade from wire-wrapped backplane blocks. There are many shelf feet of manuals. And so on, to items that are just useless boat anchors. In case you cross-reference to other brands, I have been an avid 68000 user too, and the residue includes several Motorola systems: a VME-10 and two Delta boxes, also an AT&T Unix PC. Steve