DEC Lab 11/40

On Oct 23, 8:15, John Foust wrote: There's not much to tell, really. It originally belonged to the University's Psychology Department, which has moved between buildings a few times, and it was left in a small storeroom at the back of a building they left some time ago. I bought something from a postgrad in the building, and whilst chatting he mentioned that the AV technician was also into oold computers, so I paid him a visit. In the course of *that* conversation, he mentioned there was a disused PDP-11 that would need moved in time for a forthcoming building refurbishment, and the rest, is, as they say, history. I try to make sure that people around the campus know I'm interested in old machines, and from time to time something interesting turns up :-) I probably won't have much time to do anything other than gaze at it every time I walk past, until the weekend, but I'll let you know how I get on. I'm also trying to sort out the 6000VA UPS (unrelated acquisition) I got last week, and mentioned on the list. I've got as far as getting it powered up without tripping the 32A circuit breaker, getting the diagnostics and status out of the serial port, and have figured out why it doesn't like the batteries: the two sets of ten 12V lead-acid batteries are all flat. None reads more than 0.2V :-( I presently have a pulse generator/charger on some of them, to see if I can get any life out of a few. It looks moderately hopeful. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York