In article <53DE6E46.6050409 at bitsavers.org>, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes: The RP03 controller is the part that needs saving? Otherwise, I thought 11/34s weren't rare, I thought they were fairly common as far as PDP-11s went. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://ComputerGraphicsMuseum.org> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://LegalizeAdulthood.wordpress.com>

Yes, the RP03 and controller are the important things - the rest can be left. -- Will

On 8/3/2014 3:52 PM, Sean Caron wrote: I will help with costs and can provide a driver to and from Kansas City, Mo, plus a place to store / redistribute the goods there. I'd take parts for the 11/34 if possible, as I also have one I'd like to bring up sometime. The RP03 is similar to the Microdata ISS drive, and several Royale systems had them years ago and are in the possession of some list members I'd hate to see one of those drives be passed up as it could run on those realities. Jim

On 04/08/14 12:17 AM, Adrian Stoness wrote: At least it's in Canada. Sometimes you have to go to where the stuff is, it doesn't come to you. --T

On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 01:25:52AM -0400, Toby Thain wrote: [...] Or even just make sure you take hoildays where the kit is. I was somewhat involuntarily packed off to Vienna, but after the world's tiniest bit of research, found myself in Technisches Museum Wien[0] where I tweeted these snaps: https://twitter.com/pndc/status/495240267679936512 https://twitter.com/pndc/status/495270580002635776 Also in my collection of pictures (which I haven't downloaded from my phone and posted somewhere useful yet) is a Remington Rand Univac, an Altair 8800 with a pair of 8" disks making the whole lot about 10U high, a complete NExT cube system including the laser printer (which I didn't realise existed) an an IBM 5150 in mint condition. There were some curious choices as to what was considered saveable artifacts for the 1990s and 2000s -- a Kindle is reasonable, but some of the other modern kipple was unremarkable -- but of course we won't really know what is historically interesting until they are much older. There are loads of other fun bits and pieces, although it has a fairly Germanic flavour including what seemed to be a somewhat tasteless Third Reich-themed display of wartime radios, which means there's less British and American kit and you'd see in for example London's Science Museum. The German influence also meant I saw some unfamiliar DIN plug formations. (Well, at least it wasn't French and their infernal SCART.) A tip for people thinking about walking to the museum. It's on Mariahilferstra?e, however having walked the full length of that road to get to the museum and then tended to the subsequent blisters, I can only conclude that it starts in Slovakia and goes all the way to Slovenia. Consider taking the tram and/or U-Bahn instead. (Back to London tomorrow!) [0] http://www.technischesmuseum.at/language/en-us/home (And yes, the staff really do speak en_US rather than en_GB.) [1] That was our Plan B after realising that the randomly-selected Plan A of the heating Museum[2] was closed for the summer. I concluded that the pilot light must have blown out. Vienna is rather hot and has been hitting 30?C most days, so I can see why the museum might not be too popular right now. [2] http://www.wien.gv.at/english/culture/museums/brennpunkt/