On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Jack Peacock wrote:
  I just acquired (5 minutes ago) a DEC TU80 open reel
tape drive, but no 
<...>
  A longtime customer just showed up at my door with it
in his pickup, asked
 if I wanted it.  It's clean and he says it was pulled from a running system,
 but no details.  It's in a nice DEC rack, like the kind VAX 3600s came in. 
Ask him if he's got the rest of the system to go with it.
  Is it treasure or trash? 
Treasure, of course.
Sam                                        Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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