PDP11/34 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

12 Feb 2004

Hi

I visited a customer in Sweden today. In the corner was a packed-up PDP
11/34. I dont know beans about PDP, but that is what they told me. There
seemed to be a CPU, a disk drive and a few disc packs
Would that be interesting for anyone ? If so, I can ask the customer if we
can have it

Nico

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Allain" &lt;allain(a)panix.com&gt;
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
&lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 3:05 AM
Subject: Re: Yay - new DEC arrival (not *strictly* on topic. Or is it?)

...
   That is
exactly why I *still* run critical or security-sensitive
 stuff on such platforms.  It leaves those kiddies with a severe
 headache. :) 
 At last!  A motivation behind all this.  I was beginning to wonder.

 I saw a digital animation festival last night and was thinking of
 getting a new compute server.  By my calculations a midsized
 PC passed even the CRAY-1 in compute speed sometime in 2002,
 give or take a year.  It probably would require a stripped down O/S
 to do the computing.  MS must take out at least 3/4 of the machine
 power.

 John A.