8 Dec
1999
8 Dec
'99
1:31 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: PDP-11/70 for Scrap
--- Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com> wrote:
company
Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com> wrote
about PDP-11/70s:
Wow. Quite a history. Mine were from Borden in downtown Columbus. The
guy that helped me get them, used to use them in the late 1970s. His I had to jump on a pair of them that... do not
have a proper frontpanel
The seven machines I purchased have real front panels... but...
They aren't the original front panels the machines were born with.
Later, the machines were upgraded to the QED-95 CPU, which replaces all
of the CPU cards (and memory) with a four-card set... (and my one-time employer) was the place I've
mentioned several times that
made DEC<->IBM sync serial connectivity products. For anyone that ever
would
have worked with them, they were known as COLA and COLE
(COLumbus CPU "A"
and
COLumbus CPU "E"), part of a once larger
setup. They are identically
configured with the remote-diag console, 4Kw of MOS in one BA-11 in an
attached memory cabinet (H-960), SI9900, several Fuji Eagles and a couple
of
TU-77-sized tape drives. *Those* were a bitch to move.
Fortunately for
me,
it was all in town - $100 in moving expenses. Maybe
I'll be able to get
one
back together and powered up by Spring. I'm still
fiddling with my set of
PDP-8/Ls that all appear to have dirty backplanes.
Do you have docs for the PDP-8Ls? I have a running desktop PDP-8L coming in
next weekend and am not sure if I am getting the docs or not.
john
PDP-8 and other rare mini computers
http://www.pdp8.com
-ethan
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