On Saturday 01 May 2004 03:50, Bert Thomas wrote: No. You need UNIBUS cards for an 11/750. That's an RQDX3, a QBUS card. You can find out what cards are using module numbers with Megan Gentry's field guide: http://world.std.com/~mbg/pdp11-field-guide.txt Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS --- http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org

Bert (and everyone else ;-) Nope, the 750 is Unibus, and requires Unibus cards. The M7555 card is an RQDX3, which indeed does MFM, but it is a Qbus card. For your system, we need to find a SCSI (haha!) or ESDI controller that does MSCP, lime a Dilog or Emulex card, so we can hook up a (physically small) ESDI drive to it. I laughed about the SCSI card, because those... well, save up lots of money if you want those :) --f

TCF (NJ annual Computer flea) http://www.tcf-nj.org report This years 'Trenton' Computer festival featured: One guy with a $5 PPC Mac table. Two Apple II's (1: good condition, 2: good extras), a IIgs. An Atari 800 w/ FDD. Tons of Suns again. This year in the Sparcstation IPX formfactor. Laptop drives at 50? /gig One table each of Tek and HP test equipment, mid-level value. DEC: All gone! Some Compaq badge era things. Some reminiscent people talking about it. ** Still worth the trip, for good prices and volumes, but a little dull. I left in time to get a IIc complete at the recycle center for free. One guy was trying to sell NT 4.0 for $119... I didn't ask. Atypical. ** I take this as a clue that selling same there would be interesting. John A.

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 08:49:54PM -0400, Teo Zenios wrote: The Dayton Hamvention at the Hara Arena... http://www.hamvention.org/, IIRC... I've gone most years since 1982. Gonna miss this year, naturally. It's in a couple of weeks, if you want to go again. I _used_ to get DEC stuff there, but it's been sparse for a long time. The selection is going to be lots of modern PC stuff inside, with less and less classic stuff in the flea market. Plenty of Sun hardware, some Commodore stuff here and there. Being a Hamvention, there's lots of radio gear, but also Textronix, HP and other RF and test equipment. I get lots of loose components there, still. I picked up several tubes of 14-pin machined pin sockets for $1/tube last year (and wished I'd bought more). My usual haul lately is some replacement SPARC machine for <$50 (last year it was a SPARC-5/110 w/HME-Wide-SCSI card and half-a-boat of 32MB DIMMs for $35), an armload of discrete components, and maybe one classic machine. I missed out on the PDP-8/a that sold on Friday morning, but I did get a few DEC items from the same guy later in the day. Dayton is where I got my first PDP-8 in 1982. -ethan -- Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 02-May-2004 02:40 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -83.2 F (-64.0 C) Windchill -141.6 F (-96.40 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 12.4 kts Grid 049 Barometer 669 mb (11042. ft) Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html

----- Original Message ----- From: "der Mouse" &lt;mouse(a)Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA&gt; To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 11:28 PM Subject: Re: TCF 2004 If a few laptop HD's will take up all your spare space you better get a bigger house :) The problem with these events is that you always go there looking for one thing and end up coming home with allot of other treasure. I am running out of space to setup and store my small collection already (meaning without turning the whole house into a warehouse).

THIS IS NOT MY STUFF! How well does DEC stuff handle weather? FREE (no shipping - local pickup only!) five or six 6 foot racks of PDP-11/40 stuff It is well weathered - outside in mild climate for 15+ years, so condition is poor, but some parts should be usable. It was working before the long term poor storage also "washing machine sized disk drive" "maybe an RM03" also, a stove and a doghouse, and maybe some miscellaneous, particularly if/when he runs out of storage space contact Monte Hanrahan (510) 754-8373 sorry, no email &lt;hanrahan49(a)comcast.net&gt; until he finishes moving, although I could try to get messages to him in a few days. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred

Well indeed, these pictures are not for the collectors among us with a weak health. Makes my rescue I made some time ago with Fred a 'beginners' rescue. Ed Guy Sotomayor wrote: -- edward(a)groenenberg.net | Collector of PDP-11's. http://www.groenenberg.net | Politici zijn vieze oplichters. Unix Lives! M$ Windows is crap. '97 TL1000S

I guess the only good thing about this is that at least these computers did not end up at the scrappers. It appears that there are numerous salvageable items in this lot. Maybe some other failing 11/40s will live again because of these neglected ones that were left out in the weather. It does look like things weather better in Sunny California than they do here in South Carolina. You would not want to see what they would look like if they had been sitting out in the weather here for 15 years. Ashley -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Guy Sotomayor Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 3:26 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only Cc: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: PDP-11 RESCUE needed in northern California (Castro Valley) On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 12:38, Fred Cisin wrote: Poorly. Paul, Fred and myself collected all of this last weekend. Our "adventure" is now up on my web site at: http://www.shiresoft.com/pdp-11/rescue/index.html ** WARNING!! ** These pages may not be suitable for all viewers! They contain many disturbing images. You have been warned!! -- TTFN - Guy

On Sun, 9 May 2004, Teo Zenios wrote: Not quite. He got them from a dumpster. His employer had promised him office/storage space (contractually obligated, but amount not specified), but reneged. He had once planned to do something with the machines, but got overwhelmed with other problems, including rapidly decreasing storage space. We all spend more on storage than on housing. It's too bad that he didn't release the stuff sooner. BTW, although I was the one who passed on the offer to the list, it was the OTHER Fred who participated in the rescue. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com

On Sun, 9 May 2004, Fred Cisin wrote: Yes, he stored them there with the "OK, I'll move these later this week" thought, then got other things to do, then it became winter, and after that, it no longer mattered, so he forgot, sorta. Me! Me! Me :) --f

No special curses to the previous owners, I mean, they didn't scrap it. But major big thanks for your efforts. John A.

On Sun, 9 May 2004, Guy Sotomayor wrote: Those are some of the most interesting vintage computer pictures I've ever seen! -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]