A moment of silence, please

I attended a hamfest Sunday, in order to clear out some crap. I managed to get a few things, namely RSX-11M manuals, and a maintenance manual for a big CDC drive. I also talked to a guy that deals with old computers. Two weeks ago, he _finally_ scrapped out a bunch of old machines - really old. Amongst the deaths were various PDP-8s, two PDP-9s, a Burroughs mainframe, and an IBM 7090 of some sort. Of course I wretched. The loss of the PDP-8s is bad (I do not know specific model numbers), but the others are a real shame. Known PDP-9s number in the _low_ single digits, the 7090 perhaps less, but old Burroughs equipment is probably extinct. In any case, this shows that the stuff was not _all_ scrapped years ago. William Donzelli william(a)ans.net