old DEC gear wanted

At 1:27 AM -0500 11/10/06, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote: Don't be, they're still around in industrial settings. They just keep working so why spend the money to replace them. They're still around in various settings, industrial, scientific, business, etc. They're used for such things as electron microscopes, spectrum analyzers, controlling parts of nuclear plants, etc., PDP-11's are still big business. In some cases it's because they're still working, why spend the money to replace, in others it would simply cost more to replace than it does to keep them running (typically places where qualifying new HW/SW can cost insane amounts of money). Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |