30 Sep
2014
30 Sep
'14
6:14 a.m.
From: Sean Caron
I'd at least grab the boards out of it, if you
could.
I cringed when I read this! I find so many boards available for old PDP11's -
but without the cables, cabinet plates, etc which make them usable. E.g.
there's currently a seller on eBay who has an RK11 board set - but without the
custom backplane, they are useful only as spares for an existing RK11.
Grabbing the boards is better than recycling the whole works, I concede; but
such boards are effectively sentenced to being spares for an existing unit:
they will almost certainly never again function as a working unit.
So I think it is a desperate move to save only boards - one really ought to
try and save the rest if one possibly can. (I know, in this case that happened;
I was just commenting on the general concept.)
Noel
30 Sep
30 Sep
7:12 a.m.
Sure, it's desperate, I'll readily admit that, and you're absolutely right,
if gutting out a machine, good idea to take the extra few minutes and grab
any cables or bulkheads you can get as well. I didn't know at that point if
Josh was able to grab the entire CPU and I figured the system was odd
enough that just having an example of i.e. the CPU for static display would
be worthwhile, if it wasn't feasible to save the whole thing.
It's definitely frustrating when you see that on the secondary market, or,
even more annoying, the vendor is charging you once for the card, then they
want to go and charge you again just for the cables :( Been there.
Best,
Sean
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
From: Sean
Caron
I'd at least grab the boards out of it, if
you could.
I cringed when I read this! I find so many boards available for old
PDP11's -
but without the cables, cabinet plates, etc which make them usable. E.g.
there's currently a seller on eBay who has an RK11 board set - but without
the
custom backplane, they are useful only as spares for an existing RK11.
Grabbing the boards is better than recycling the whole works, I concede;
but
such boards are effectively sentenced to being spares for an existing unit:
they will almost certainly never again function as a working unit.
So I think it is a desperate move to save only boards - one really ought to
try and save the rest if one possibly can. (I know, in this case that
happened;
I was just commenting on the general concept.)
Noel
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