Looking for TMB11 Controller!

Hi Kevin, Well, I think I've got just the thing for you! I've been trying to clear out most of the rest of the Big DEC Haul I had purchased/rescued in July 1998. Still a lot left. Among the bunch of big iron left to get shed of is a 6' PDP-11 rack with a TS03 and its controller. The controller is mounted in a 10.5" BA11 similar to your 11/34A BA11 (PSUs are a bit different in the 11/34 as you may know. More 5VDC current capacity.) If you were reasonably close you could come over and fetch it. But BC is basically at the other end of the continent though :( Although I haven't had time to post the list of available hardware since I think this past late Winter, I had tried through '98 and '99 to dispose of the gear. I'm just recently able to spend a bit more time reading ClassicCmp and my other radio-related lists. The only things that found new homes are the VAX 11/750 and TU80 tape with RA81 drive both in a 40" rack (Thanks Will J. for taking it and thanks again Bill Donzelli for taking them out to a drop-off point in Iowa!) plus a company down in Columbus, Ohio bought the LP-25 printer as a spare. Anyway, this is to say that I think I'm going to have to part-out the gear and scrap the remnants - which does not impress me in the very least. So Kevin, it looks like you may be able to get as much as you need (and hopefully more!) for your TS03 system. There's a heap of 7" 800 BPI tapes available too - about 85 or so. I intend to post the list of available DEC gear one last time for interested takers before I have to resort to dismantling them for parts and scrap. If things remain slow at work (i.e., finally less than 60+ hour weeks) I'll try to post it late this week. That Big Haul began as a purchase for a very reasonable price of a MicroVAX II and a Grey Wall, RT-11 and RSX-11 Orange Walls, PDP 11/23, Handbooks, schematics, stacks of other docs, parts, etc. Small stuff, basically. The fellow I got it from saw I'd brought a 15-foot Ryder Rental truck with a liftgate (smallest truck Ryder had _available_ at the time). The purchase turned into a rescue of two VAXen (11/730 & 11/750), several 11/34A's, bunch of RL02s, four RK07s, decWriter I's, II's and III's, several VT100s, PDP 11/24, MicroPDP-11 (11/73), another 11/23, RA60, disk pacs, tapes, etc, etc. which ended up stuffing that truck with barely enough room to pull the door down. He was about to call a scrapper as there was no other interest in the stuff from anybody. I think the thing was loaded above its legal weight limit (18,000 lbs gross wt). If I had a bigger truck, the guy would have sent several thousand pounds _more_ home with me. Oh well, I'll think TWICE next time before I get myself into such a haul. My wife will make sure of it!! ;-) Upon the date 04:02 PM 10/22/00 -0700, Kevin McQuiggin said something like: -- snip TMB11 module list -- Actually a "shortshot" ;-) Thanks from me too as I've had to literally drop any contact with getting my 11/34A running because of life and stuff getting in the way. Been over a year since I had a chance to touch it. That thread will be very important to keep as I've had a very similar or identical problem (can't find my notes on it now though). Maybe this Winter time will open up a bit (???). BTW, I'm in Western NY State close to Lake Erie. Regards, Chris -- -- Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net Member of Antique Wireless Association URL: http://www.antiquewireless.org/