1 Aug
2018
1 Aug
'18
11:32 a.m.
http://www.ctonlineauctions.com/detail.asp?id=746466
From the pictures it looks to be a fairly complete
system with Kennedy tape drive.
Has a System industries controller but doesn't
appear to have a disk drive.
I'd love to have it, but my wife would kill me if i brought something that big home.
I hope someone in the Riverside area on this list ( Mark Blair ? ) can acquire it.
I have no affiliation with the seller.
Wayne
1 Aug
1 Aug
12:29 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 8:32 AM, Wayne S via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
http://www.ctonlineauctions.com/detail.asp?id=746466
From the pictures it looks to be a fairly complete system with Kennedy
tape drive.
Has a System industries controller but doesn't appear to have a disk drive.
There is a a drive -- big old Fujitsu SMD drive below the SI controller.
I'm guessing a M2284 or similar.
I'd love to have it, but my wife would kill me if i brought something
that big home.
I hope someone in the Riverside area on this list ( Mark Blair ? ) can
acquire it.
It's a nice system, I hope someone can save it.
- Josh
I have no affiliation with the seller.
Wayne
1:45 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 8:32 AM, Wayne S via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
The SI9000 series are nice SMD controllers. We had one on a CMI
interface on a VAX-11/750. It made a 160MB Fujitsu drive look like 2
real RM03s (and would boot from the DR boot ROMs) and it made a
Fujitsu Eagle look like a fat RM05. We had to patch DRDRIVER.EXE with
the geometry tables every time we upgraded the OS. That one got to
VMS 4.6 and we froze it there. All of our VMS 5 work was on 100% DEC
hardware. The SI 9xxx box could accept multiple SMD drive interfaces
(3? 4?) and at least 2 host connections (we had one).
I know Systems Industries made Unibus and Qbus host cards too but I
never got the chance to play with them.
Looks like a fun box but I don't need another 11/34 and I live too
many states away.
-ethan
http://www.ctonlineauctions.com/detail.asp?id=746466
From the pictures it looks to be a fairly complete system with Kennedy
tape drive.
Has a System industries controller but doesn't appear to have a disk drive.
There is a a drive -- big old Fujitsu SMD drive below the SI controller.
I'm guessing a M2284 or similar. 
7:27 p.m.
It breaks my heart because I'm in range and the price is certainly right, but
I don't have the space to house it (I already have an 11/44 in storage doing
absolutely nothing).
Mark Blair probably is closest to it.
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2 Aug
2 Aug
7:56 p.m.
It looks lovely, and I live just outside the Riverside city limits. I'm awfully short
on both money and indoor storage space right now, though. :(
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
8:15 p.m.
Ok, I've studied the pictures carefully and given it some deep consideration, and
I've decided that I do not want it. I hope that somebody adopts it!
Judging by the power tools that are also listed in the same event, I'd say that the
person whose estate this is from was definitely One Of Us.
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
1 Aug
1 Aug
11:34 p.m.
Wayne said
http://www.ctonlineauctions.com/detail.asp?id=746466
From the pictures it looks to be a fairly complete system with Kennedy tape drive.
Has a System industries controller but doesn't appear to have a disk drive.
I'd love to have it, but my wife would kill me if i brought something that big
home.
I hope someone in the Riverside area on this list ( Mark Blair ? ) can acquire it.
I have no affiliation with the seller.
Wayne
If that machine goes to someone on this list, I'd appreciate getting in touch with
them.
I have two Kennedy 9000's just like that one, and got a Kennedy formatter from eBay
last year.
I'd appreciate some info and/or photos on just what controller and formatter that rack
setup has,
and what docs there might be for same.
Thanks for any help,
Steve Malikoff.
8 Aug
8 Aug
3:43 p.m.
On Aug 1, 2018, at 8:32 AM, Wayne S via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
http://www.ctonlineauctions.com/detail.asp?id=746466
From the pictures it looks to be a fairly complete system with Kennedy tape drive.
Has a System industries controller but doesn't appear to have a disk drive.
Looks like somebody got a good deal, with a closing price of $32. I hope the pickup goes
smoothly this weekend.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
3:50 p.m.
Yep a real good deal. I asked a Los Angeles electronics auctioneer if they would rescue it
to resell but didn?t hear back so I don?t think so, but it was short notice for them. The
winning bidder?s moniker was ?Amberwind?. Hopefully they are a collector.
It?s deflating to realize that this is the kind of system that I was waiting to be become
available and then suddenly realize that I don?t have the room for it. The cost and
location were all just right but ?
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Subject: Re: Pdp 11/34 System for sale in Riverside,ca
On Aug 1, 2018, at 8:32 AM, Wayne S via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
http://www.ctonlineauctions.com/detail.asp?id=746466
From the pictures it looks to be a fairly complete system with Kennedy tape drive.
Has a System industries controller but doesn't appear to have a disk drive.
Looks like somebody got a good deal, with a closing price of $32. I hope the pickup goes
smoothly this weekend.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
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