10 Jun
2016
10 Jun
'16
3:02 a.m.
From: Devin Davison
It looked like a good batch of boards and i was
holding out on finding
a machine.
I hope that "a machine" wasn't 'an empty machine to plug them into'
- because
AFAICT the chances are that happening are basically zero. (People seem to
save either i) complete machines, or ii) just the boards - apparently not
realizing that without the backplane, etc, the boards are only useful as
spares.)
Any good place to get a 11/780 aside from watching the
local scrap
centers with my fingers crossed one will be there?
For some reasons, /780's seem to be pretty rare. I suspect it's a case of
'they were mostly all scrapped long ago in favour of later models which were
faster and smaller' (we see the same thing in other lines).
Don't get me wrong, I truly do fervently hope that you do find one somehow,
but one has to be realistic, I think. (I'd love to have an RF11, but I'm
pretty sure they almost all went to the big scrap-heap in the sky many moons
ago; so I'm not holding on, waiting for one to appear - rather, I'm getting
on with the stuff that _is_ still here.) Sorry to be such a downer... :-(
Noel
10 Jun
10 Jun
2:14 p.m.
Well I am still holding out hope to find a vax 780 and get it running. I
did not think i would ever be able to find a pdp 11 , but one crossed my
path and i managed to pick it up. Perhaps one will still show up around
here somewhere. In the meantime ive been trying to stockpile parts for the
one day i do manage to find one and it need a board.
On Jun 10, 2016 6:03 AM, "Noel Chiappa" <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
From: Devin
Davison
It looked like a good batch of boards and i was
holding out on
finding
a machine.
I hope that "a machine" wasn't 'an empty machine to plug them into'
-
because
AFAICT the chances are that happening are basically zero. (People seem to
save either i) complete machines, or ii) just the boards - apparently not
realizing that without the backplane, etc, the boards are only useful as
spares.)
Any good place to get a 11/780 aside from
watching the local scrap
centers with my fingers crossed one will be there?
For some reasons, /780's seem to be pretty rare. I suspect it's a case of
'they were mostly all scrapped long ago in favour of later models which
were
faster and smaller' (we see the same thing in other lines).
Don't get me wrong, I truly do fervently hope that you do find one somehow,
but one has to be realistic, I think. (I'd love to have an RF11, but I'm
pretty sure they almost all went to the big scrap-heap in the sky many
moons
ago; so I'm not holding on, waiting for one to appear - rather, I'm getting
on with the stuff that _is_ still here.) Sorry to be such a downer... :-(
Noel
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