FW: PDP-11/70's - Now you can owe one of these great work horses

>Message-ID: <36E453B9.E69B85EE(a)jps.net> >Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 14:48:25 -0800 >From: "E.B. Lieberman" <ebliebe(a)jps.net> >Organization: Bank of America >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (WinNT; I) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp11,comp.os.rsts,comp.os.vms >Subject: PDP-11/70's - Now you can owe one of these great work horses >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.239.202.39 >X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.239.202.39 >X-Trace: 8 Mar 1999 23:14:51 -0800, 209.239.202.39 >Lines: 60 >X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.63.224.240 >Path: news1.jps.net!209.239.202.39 >Xref: news1.jps.net alt.sys.pdp11:952 comp.os.rsts:69 comp.os.vms:21006 > >Now you can own a PDP-11/70! Yep, that's right. > > I'm not talking about those little 11/8x and 11/9x Q-bus jobs. > I'm talking about the real thing; you know with MASSBUS and all. > >A global financial institution, previously headquartered in Northern >California, is getting ready to say goodbye to the last of its >PDP-11/70's. These machines (there are eight of them), were used as >message store and forward switches for nearly 20 years. Great minds >have tried to count the number of times the world wide GNP have flowed >through these systems; and failed !!! > >Each CPU has roughly the same configuration as follows: > > QED 11/70 processor upgrade with 4Mb memory plus cache running at >multiple VUP speeds. > (Wow, faster than a 11/780, VAX engineering - eat your hearts >out); > > Two System Industries CLUSTOR III MASSBUS disk controllers with 16 >Seagate 1.0 Gig drives > built with SMD interfaces. Ten drives are fixed while the remaining >are in removable > canisters; > > One Fujitsu 2480M/3480 SCSI tape drive (emulates a TU81) plus >SCSI-UNIBUS controller; > > One TE16 or TU16 magtape drive (MASSBUS); > > Two DV-11's with modem control (16 channel sync or async adapters) >and custom drivers > set up for a variation on IBM BISYNC; > > Three DZ-11's and an ETHERNET DELUA; > > Plus software to show you that all hardware components are >functional; > >Did I say eight (8) CPU's? There's more !! >For a short time only, we can throw in tons of spares that include: > > More QED's, SETASI memory (2Mb and 4Mb), more DV-11's, more DZ-11's, >full 11/70 CPU kits, > DH-11's, DHQ-11's, 50-60 extra Seagate drives, as described above, >in removable canisters, > 24 or so extra SI CLUSTOR controllers, 3 to its own 19" rack. > >Am I finished? No way !!! > > I'll even throw in a few RP06 disk packs. The platters are great >for making Frisbee's out of > (kids, don't play with these without adult supervision). > > Boxes of hardware manuals and even a TECO manual (the first real >editor that today still has the > best macro generator going). > >So if you are interested in taking the entire lot (en masse), then drop >me a line and we can talk about it.