16 Apr
2004
16 Apr
'04
6:33 a.m.
And since I'm the new kid on the block here on this list, I guess I'll just have
to
sit here in the Southeast and salivate as I watch you guys who are way ahead of
me go home with more good stuff!!!!!
I want a real unibus PDP-11 badly so I can move a copy of my reincarnated college
11/40 RSTS/E environment off Bob Supnik's simulator and onto some real hardware.
It seems like the guys that have all the good stuff already just keep getting more
while the latecomers sit here with the simulator running the old stuff on a PC via
Telnet.
No, I'm not whining..... :-)
Ashley
P.S. If any of you ever want to give a PDP-11 to a good home......
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Finnegan <pat(a)computer-refuge.org>
Sent: Apr 16, 2004 1:33 PM
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Subject: Re: DEC VAX 785 and PDP11/70's in Kansas City
McFadden, Mike declared on Friday 16 April 2004 10:51 am:
I just got word from a friend that a company in Kansas
City is
planning to dispose of the following.
DEC VAX 785 in three 6' cabinets
DEC PDP 11/70 in ten 6' cabinets, this may be two computers
4 RM03 disk drives
2 TU80 tape drives
Other disks for VAX
That is what they remembered without actually having a list.
And just perfect the wrong time for me to be able to "help" with
anything. Maybe.
Of course, it looks like I'm too far from the top of the list to be given
the opportunity to help... Still I would love to have any part of
this... the RM03's would work nicely on my 11/750 that needs some
drives.
Pat
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16 Apr
16 Apr
9:16 a.m.
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Ashley Carder wrote:
It seems like the guys that have all the good stuff
already just keep
getting more while the latecomers sit here with the simulator running
the old stuff on a PC via Telnet.
No, I'm not whining..... :-)
Ashley,
Quit whining :) If you're tenacious enough you'll eventually find what
you want. You just have to turn over every stone and look into every
dumpster. Do that enough and the Vintage Computer Gawds will smile upon
thee one day.
Read:
http://www.vintage.org/content.php?id=001
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18 Apr
18 Apr
2:45 a.m.
Thanks for the tips. The article is excellent. Unfortunately, most
examples of the
kind of computer I'm looking for (PDP 11/40 or something close) probably
found their way to the trash years ago. I wish I had started this quest
much sooner.
I am in "empty nest" mode now and I have more time to devote to hobbies. If
I had
been interested and had a place to put the thing, I probably could have
obtained the
actual college computer that I'm trying to reproduce. It was moved to the
junk room
in 1989 and the new generation on computer folks on campus scrapped it a few
years
ago when they decided to get rid of unnecessary computer junk. My retired
professor
and former director of the computer center and RSTS/E guru says that if I
had contacted
him about 3 or 4 years ago before he retired, I could have taken home
everything that was
left from the 11/40 days. He put most of the leftovers in a storage area at
school and
the new breed of folks threw it away.
He did send me all his paperwork relating to the PDP-11 including the price
quotes,
purchase orders, shipping papers, etc., as well as his proposals to the
faculty and
trustees in 1968, presenting his case on why the college should move into
the
computer age. All of this stuff is quite interesting.
Hopefully something will turn up in the near future and I can proceed with
moving my
simulated 11/40 environment (complete with my college's customizations and
lots of
programs that were developed at my college) to the real hardware.
Ashley
-----Original Message-----
From: Vintage Computer Festival [mailto:vcf@siconic.com]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 5:17 PM
To: Ashley Carder; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: DEC VAX 785 and PDP11/70's in Kansas City
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Ashley Carder wrote:
It seems like the guys that have all the good stuff
already just keep
getting more while the latecomers sit here with the simulator running
the old stuff on a PC via Telnet.
No, I'm not whining..... :-)
Ashley,
Quit whining :) If you're tenacious enough you'll eventually find what
you want. You just have to turn over every stone and look into every
dumpster. Do that enough and the Vintage Computer Gawds will smile upon
thee one day.
Read:
http://www.vintage.org/content.php?id=001
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Festival
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4:14 a.m.
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Ashley Carder wrote:
Thanks for the tips. The article is excellent.
Unfortunately, most
examples of the kind of computer I'm looking for (PDP 11/40 or something
close) probably found their way to the trash years ago. I wish I had
That is simply not true, otherwise you wouldn't have a hope of finding one
as you seem to.
Leave no stone unturned and no idea investigated.
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6:29 a.m.
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 12:14 PM
Subject: RE: DEC VAX 785 and PDP11/70's in Kansas City
Leave no stone unturned and no idea investigated.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Good advice, Sellam! The investigation of ideas may prove hazardous to
one's health! ;-)
Glen
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