12 Jun
1997
12 Jun
'97
6:19 a.m.
Oh yes! I finally own a little bit of a PDP. The Department of AI at the
university here just disposed of some of its old hardware and I ended up
with a Terak 8510a with extra floppy (8512) and monitor, keyboard (8532).
Lovely!!!
Oh, you lucky thing!. The Terak is a machine I'm looking out for, and I've
never managed to find one. Whatever you do, look after it.
PS: Oh, the department has quite a nice collection of
old stuff, including a
PERQ that just seemed to attract a lot of drool. They're keeping it,
Any ideas as to which model? If it's the long-lost PERQ T4, serial number
DEMO01, I'll not be responsible for my actions :-)....
Seriously, if you are looking out for a PERQ, and don't really mind which
model you get (They are _ALL_ fine machines), you are very likely to find
one. An advert on alt.sys.perq will often get results.
though -- it's going to a real museum (not
computer related, though).
Pity. That machine should be kept running, and not just stuck in a
museum...
All in all, I think I must have looked too much
like a kiddie in a sweet
shop.
Or like I did when faced with 10 tables covered in DEC spares and the
comment 'Take whatever you want' !
--
-tony
ard12(a)eng.cam.ac.uk
The gates in my computer are AND,OR and NOT, not Bill