8 Jun
2010
8 Jun
'10
7:04 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
At 11:03 PM +0200 6/8/10, St?phane Tsacas wrote:
I'll let you know... I've contacted the seller and told him that if he
didn't get any local offers, I'd be interested (I'm in San Jose). The
family would enjoy a long weekend drive to LA... :)
Mark
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/sys/1777867686.html PDP 11/23+ - $1
(Sherman Oaks )
Western Digital , PDP 11/23+ , Brand New , Never Used , RLO2 , Kenedy Tape
Drive
It's probably just as well I'm no where near close, but I have to question
the description. What is the odds of a 20-30 year old system being "brand
new", and where do the Western Digital and Kennedy Tape Drive come into play
based on the photo. ?I see a /23+ and two RL02's. ?A rather nice config. ?I
have a /23 like that, though lack the rack. 
12 Jun
12 Jun
8:58 p.m.
I went and looked at this today. The guy thinks someone is coming from
"up north" to pay $$ for the thing. I called him, told him I was local,
and could move it, but would not be willing to do any money due to the
age, weight, etc. I planned to part it out to people interested in the
thing wherever, and enough was left ebay the rest.
He has a system with no media, 1 RL02 drive on top. He didn't say till
I got there that he thought I was going to pay for it. I have seen
older minis like this around the area for pickup, told him that before
going there, and so needless to say it is still there.
It does have a Fujitsu SMD drive, and maybe a SCSI backended F880. I
didn't look at the F880 to be sure.
The system is in two separate cabinets.
I told him that real money such as he has seen on ebay means someone who
is listing it, knows what they are selling and will warrant what they
sell. The ones that just list $800 cpu boards stay on ebay and don't sell.
Anyway hope this helps anyone inbound to see it. I'll answer any
questions off list that I can answer. Again, two cabinets, condition
looks like it was stored in a garage (not pristine, but not rusted
either). He says "well I powered it on 10 years ago and it worked" when
I explained the situation about his idea of value, and mine.
Jim
On 6/8/2010 4:04 PM, Mark Davidson wrote:
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Zane H.
Healy<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
At 11:03 PM +0200 6/8/10, St?phane Tsacas wrote:
I'll let you know... I've contacted the seller and told him that if
he
didn't get any local offers, I'd be interested (I'm in San Jose). The
family would enjoy a long weekend drive to LA... :)
Mark
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/sys/1777867686.html PDP 11/23+ - $1
(Sherman Oaks )
Western Digital , PDP 11/23+ , Brand New , Never Used , RLO2 , Kenedy Tape
Drive
It's probably just as well I'm no where near close, but I have to
question
the description. What is the odds of a 20-30 year old system being "brand
new", and where do the Western Digital and Kennedy Tape Drive come into play
based on the photo. I see a /23+ and two RL02's. A rather nice config. I
have a /23 like that, though lack the rack.
13 Jun
13 Jun
7:24 a.m.
jim s wrote:
I went and looked at this today. The guy thinks
someone is coming
from "up north" to pay $$ for the thing. I called him, told him I was
local, and could move it, but would not be willing to do any money due
to the age, weight, etc. I planned to part it out to people
interested in the thing wherever, and enough was left ebay the rest.
He has a system with no media, 1 RL02 drive on top. He didn't say
till I got there that he thought I was going to pay for it. I have
seen older minis like this around the area for pickup, told him that
before going there, and so needless to say it is still there.
I have enough PDP-11/73 hardware to put together at least 3 systems
based on a BA23 box with at least 2 MB of memory and a 600 MB
Hitachi ESDI hard disk drive. I can also add an RQDX3 and RX50
floppy drive. I also have both TK50 and TK70 tape drives which
might be even more useful. And I probably have an ethernet controller
around as well, but could not test that aspect without any software.
While I have only RT-11 that could be run and tested on these systems,
obviously they could be used for RSTS/E and RSX-11.
I used to have a number of RL02 drives and packs, but most of the
RL02 drives are gone. The racks are still left however. There are
also some 9 track tape drives in unknown condition, although one
worked the last time I powered it up about ten years ago.
Is there any interest in such a system? I was thinking of travelling from
Toronto to Ohio some time in the next couple of years to the annual
meeting. Is it possibly at Daton? Otherwise, local pickup would be
necessary since a fully loaded BA23 box is just too heavy to ship,
let alone pack successfully. There may also be a BA123 box
available, but that would be last on the list as I would likely want
to keep it for my own use. However, in a few decades, someone
is going to have to relieve my wife of all of the PDP-11 manuals
and hardware since I am 71 years old right now and need an
alternative to the dumptser.
Jerome Fine
11:14 a.m.
At 5:58 PM -0700 6/12/10, jim s wrote:
off list that I can answer. Again, two cabinets,
condition looks
like it was stored in a garage (not pristine, but not rusted
either). He says "well I powered it on 10 years ago and it worked"
when I explained the situation about his idea of value, and mine.
Somehow this seems to sum up most stuff posted on Craigslist. I've
been following camera's on there for the last couple years. In that
time I've purchased one 4x5 View Camera, it was a fair deal, and I
wanted the lens (really glad I got it as I love the camera as well).
I've not gotten any 35mm or Medium Format gear though. With most of
the stuff I see that I might be interested in, the sellers seem to
have a very inflated sense of value.
Zane
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | 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/ |
1:31 p.m.
I'm probably the guy from "up north" he's referring to, but I made no
mention of paying a bunch of money for the machine. I simply told him
that if he had no one local that was interested then I would
definitely consider driving down and rescuing it... after all, listing
something for $1 implies (to me) that he's willing to entertain
reasonable offers. I certainly am not going to make him rich. :)
He told me he was out of town and would send me pictures of the real
box when he got home... I haven't heard anything since.
Mark
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 5:58 PM, jim s <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
I went and looked at this today. ?The guy thinks
someone is coming from "up
north" to pay $$ for the thing. ?I called him, told him I was local, and
could move it, but would not be willing to do any money due to the age,
weight, etc. ?I planned to part it out to people interested in the thing
wherever, and enough was left ebay the rest.
He has a system with no media, 1 RL02 drive on top. ?He didn't say till I
got there that he thought I was going to pay for it. ?I have seen older
minis like this around the area for pickup, told him that before going
there, and so needless to say it is still there.
It does have a Fujitsu SMD drive, and maybe a SCSI backended F880. ?I didn't
look at the F880 to be sure.
The system is in two separate cabinets.
I told him that real money such as he has seen on ebay means someone who is
listing it, knows what they are selling and will warrant what they sell.
?The ones that just list $800 cpu boards stay on ebay and don't sell.
Anyway hope this helps anyone inbound to see it. ?I'll answer any questions
off list that I can answer. ?Again, two cabinets, condition looks like it
was stored in a garage (not pristine, but not rusted either). ?He says "well
I powered it on 10 years ago and it worked" when I explained the situation
about his idea of value, and mine.
Jim
On 6/8/2010 4:04 PM, Mark Davidson wrote:
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Zane H. Healy<healyzh at aracnet.com> ?wrote:
At 11:03 PM +0200 6/8/10, St?phane Tsacas wrote:
I'll let you know... I've contacted the seller and told him that if he
didn't get any local offers, I'd be interested (I'm in San Jose). ?The
family would enjoy a long weekend drive to LA... :)
Mark
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/sys/1777867686.html PDP 11/23+ - $1
(Sherman Oaks )
Western Digital , PDP 11/23+ , Brand New , Never Used , RLO2 , Kenedy
Tape
Drive
It's probably just as well I'm no where near close, but I have to
question
the description. What is the odds of a 20-30 year old system being "brand
new", and where do the Western Digital and Kennedy Tape Drive come into
play
based on the photo. ?I see a /23+ and two RL02's. ?A rather nice config.
?I
have a /23 like that, though lack the rack.
5154
days inactive
5159
days old
4 comments
4 participants
participants (4)
-
healyzh＠aracnet.com -
jhfinedp3k＠compsys.to -
jws＠jwsss.com -
mdavidson1963＠gmail.com