new DEC additions - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 Oct 1998

David:

I am short on time now, and much of what you have is not known to me,
so I can not now be of much help.  I will try later.

Still, I would be interested in the CDC equipment you mention.

Where are you located, etc.  I am in Southern California.

William R. Buckley

-----Original Message-----
From: SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com &lt;SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
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Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998 11:16 AM
Subject: new DEC additions

...
 drove out to the country the other day and picked up
this load of dec stuff.
...
 some of you dec hotshots can tell me if it was worth
the trip.  lol

i already have a microvax II, but in a tower unit form factor, almost like a
...
 pc. (ba123 i think) the 3 i got are shaped different.
two of them are big,
probably over 200lbs each easy. the first one has a sticker on it showing
model 63006. its a big unit, with a hood that opens up top and a big tape
drive <?> that slides forward. the machine says TS05 on the front. one model
...
 came with two hard drives. the other unit 'named
pugsly' is the same, except
...
 it has a small tape drive and the backplane has cables
going everywhere and
the side panels are off. thankfully they have wheels. the 3rd uvax is a much
...
 smaller unit but wider than the one i have here in the
computer room. it has a
...
 dual vertical floppy drive and two hard drives.
i also got two vt220 terminals
about 40 orange binders about vax/vms. programmer's guide, reference, and who
...
 know what else!
a letterwriter 100
external drive RD54
a tape drive (tk50?)
a rat's nest of cables to hook everything up.
some blank dec 5.25 disks
about 20 compactapes. half are backups. last bu was nov94.
also got these system tapes:
microvms 4.6 full bin
vax fortran 4.5 bin
decnet mvms v4 net bnd/n
tsv05 driver bin
microvms v4.7 bin
vhs lic key bin
microvms 4.6 bin mand update
mvII diag cust
rel:1.2.1 install microvax II  (handwritten)

heh, if anyone can explain all this, that would be most welcome. it was hard
...
 work having to unload those off a truck by myself. i
might keep the smaller of
...
 the 3 i got, but the two big monstors, i'm unsure
of. the people i got these
...
 from also want to give me a CDC machine that's even
bigger...

david 