30 Sep
2014
30 Sep
'14
6:14 a.m.
From: Sean Caron
I'd at least grab the boards out of it, if you
could.
I cringed when I read this! I find so many boards available for old PDP11's -
but without the cables, cabinet plates, etc which make them usable. E.g.
there's currently a seller on eBay who has an RK11 board set - but without the
custom backplane, they are useful only as spares for an existing RK11.
Grabbing the boards is better than recycling the whole works, I concede; but
such boards are effectively sentenced to being spares for an existing unit:
they will almost certainly never again function as a working unit.
So I think it is a desperate move to save only boards - one really ought to
try and save the rest if one possibly can. (I know, in this case that happened;
I was just commenting on the general concept.)
Noel