Are you sitting down? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 Jun 1999

I would be very interested in the 11/34 rack with the two RK05's, and the
ASR33.

I have no interest in the 11/84, and while I am somewhat interested in the
8i, I already have an 8E so I should take a back seat to anyone who doesn't
have an 8.

I'm in Missouri, so Iowa wouldn't be that big of a deal for me. I would be
willing to tandem up with others and take a hand in getting the equipment
and splitting it up with other collectors. If anyone wants to get together
on this, just let me know.

I certainly meet criteria 1 through 3, and 4 as well if someone will partner
up with me for the drive and dissemination.

Jay West
-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Dicks &lt;ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: Are you sitting down?

...
 --- Anthony Clifton - Wirehead
&lt;wirehead(a)retrocomputing.com&gt; wrote:

 I have in my garage:

 (1) PDP-11/34 with RK05j and RK05f
 (1) PDP-11/84 with RA80 and TU80
 (3) PDP-8/I, one with high speed paper tape punch reader and
     one with DECTape
 (1) ASR-33 which goes with the 8/Is 
Nice set.

  I would like these machines to leave my garage,
preferably all
 at the same time, and travel to someone else's place who has:

 1.  Enough space to give them a permanent home
 2.  Enough time to restore and preserve them as they SHOULD BE
 3.  Enough love for them to not turn them into some kind of weird
     investment scheme for EBay
 4.  ...and Enough money to bring an appropriately sized vehicle
     with a lift gate to Des Moines, Iowa to retrieve them 
I suspect that many people on the list have number one, quite a few have number
...
 two, a good many of us have number three, but number
four is the kicker.

I'm in Ohio and I'm not prepared to haul 4+ racks from Iowa (plus I already
have an 8/i and some of the other stuff)

  At any rate, I intend to only sell these to
someone on ClassicCmp.
 They will NOT appear on Ebay, Usenet or any other forum frequented
 by people who are not necessarily collectors. 
Good for you.

  The 8/Is are 3 out of a set of just under 4000
ever produced. 
Wow.  I haven't looked up the numbers in Doug Jones' FAQ lately; I thought
there were more of them made than that.

> I'd like ideas, suggestions, etc.  If anyone REALLY, REALLY wants these
> and just know you have to have them, and you have the above characteristics
...
   and you have
money, trades, etc. I'm willing to consider that too. 
Of all the systems you've mentioned, the -8/i with the DECtape is the only
part that I would really want, partially because my only DECtape is a
TU56/TD8E combo, and because I have always wanted to run OS/8 on my own
-8/i, but I have no mass storage device for it (only high-speed paper tape)

You are over 10 hours drive from my house, and I'm a lot closer than most of
...
 the people on the list.  It's a worthy goal, but to
make a road trip from,
say, California, would be an epic journey.  If anyone from the East Coast
is willing to make the trip, I could be interested in participating in the
western leg of it.

-ethan

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