Looking to get into a Mini Computer, PDP or something Like that

OK, yeah, disclaimer, I'm in Michigan and I happen to know from another mailing list that Steve is also in the state, so my opinions are colored by geography... if you live in MA, it's probably crawling, relatively speaking, with DG (and DEC, and ...) gear. There seems to be at least one or two of everything in CA, go figure :) Here in MI as a collector, you depend a lot on what the universities brought in, which was mostly DEC; the big industries, I don't know as much about... That stuff doesn't make its way out to the general public so much anyway, either it's leased and goes back to the lessor when it's obsolete, or the company just scraps it all... they don't do "property dispo" like the universities do. I remember seeing lots of DEC VAX and HP/Apollo when my Dad brought me along for "take your kid to work day" at Eaton (I think getting up close and personal with those is what ultimately sparked the insanity, LOL) but this would have been a bit after the golden days of the mini, in the late 80s and early 90s. There is probably more stuff a bit further afield in IL, IN, OH, but my feeling from almost 20 years of scrounging is that DEC was king here in the upper Midwest, as far as minicomputer sales went. Best, Sean On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:29 PM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote: