26 Jun
2000
26 Jun
'00
12:48 p.m.
I guess that's probably an unfair remark, but someone
who lurked on that auction until I went to sleep last
night beat me by a dollar. I knew that could happen
but I was hoping it wouldn't. Thus go the perils of
bidding at auctions.
So, I want to thank everyone for the very useful
suggestions on transporting the unit. It would
eventually have been fun to play with, even though
my interest in DEC is pretty much limited to the
DEC-10, and since DEC had enough trouble keeping
them running, no way I'd try if I could even find
one.
Speaking of the DEC-10, Paul Allen was going to
put a TOAD online running TOPS-10; does anyone
know if that ever came about?
-dq
26 Jun
26 Jun
1:05 p.m.
New subject: Paul Allen's TOAD (was: Re: MicroPDP-11/73 Goes to Evil Lurker)
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
Speaking of the DEC-10, Paul Allen was going to
put a TOAD online running TOPS-10; does anyone
know if that ever came about?
Yes; the machine is on-line at xkleten.paulallen.com. It runs TOPS-20
(according to the data I have, TOPS-10 runs on the TOAD, but only on the
console - no network logins, and the TOAD doesn't support any serial
mux's...).
Supposedly, accounts on that machine are/were available for folks
interested in PDP-10 stuff, but the e-mail address that was given for
requests (xkladmin(a)xkleten.paulallen.com) seems to lead to /dev/null these
days; I've been trying for over a year to get someone to answer my e-mail,
without success. I even went so far as to call his PR firm (the only
e-mailable contact I could find on his web site); they had no knowledge of
the machine, or of the offer to give people accounts, and could only tell
me that "if no one is answering your e-mail, then it most likely means
that this service is no longer being offered". I know that some folks
have accounts and use the machine - I should have sent my request in when
the offer was originally posted.... :-(
--Pat.
1:35 p.m.
At 12:48 PM 6/26/00 -0400, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
I guess that's probably an unfair remark, but
someone
who lurked on that auction until I went to sleep last
night beat me by a dollar. I knew that could happen
but I was hoping it wouldn't. Thus go the perils of
bidding at auctions.
Actually, I think that hivoltagenut (Chuck Hoaglin) is a DEC reseller and I
suspect he bid a lot more than $27. As several of us mentioned the value
the 11/73 CPU card alone was worth $25. So your typical dealer type will
add up the value of the cards mentioned, bid on it and if they win have the
seller strip the cards out into antistatic bags and ship them leaving the
rack to be disposed of at its point of origin. The reason it _seems_ like
he outbid you by a dollar was that Ebay proxy bidding only made him pay
enough to go "one bid increment" past your highest bid.
Speaking of the DEC-10, Paul Allen was going to
put a TOAD online running TOPS-10; does anyone
know if that ever came about?
Yes it did. there used to be information on tourist accounts at xkl.com
IIRC but I just checked and the web server does not respond anymore.
--Chuck
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