Whoops! Premature ejection there... It's not a PDP-10 or a PDP-6 or anything that cool, but some of you may remember my mentioning a while back of some DEC equipment at a local Lucent facility. I just got the word that they turned it off last week. I'm in contact with a responsible party and he is talking with his boss about if and how it's possible to keep them from exiting wheels up, bound for a metals reclamation facility in Canton, OH. We are talking about 6+ DEC racks, two or three PDP-11/44s, two or three TC-11 controllers and between three and five TU-56 drives. Unless the media police get there first, there are also several cabinet drawers full of tapes. Fortunately, my boss at work (who is younger than much of my collection) thinks this stuff is cool and is willing to help muscle it around. He'd love to get a machine up against our glass wall at the data center, just to watch the DECtape spin! More news as the saga unfolds. Honestly, though, I'm not confident there's a way to navigate the bureaucracy at this place. I worked there for three years and unless people are personally vested in something, they point to published procedures and sit on their hands. It's a 35-year-old factory environment with lots of the original folks still there. Flexible thinking is not rewarded. -ethan ===== Even though my old e-mail address is no longer going to vanish, please note my new public address: erd(a)iname.com The original webpage address is still going away. The permanent home is: http://penguincentral.com/ See http://ohio.voyager.net/ for details. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/