IBM S/32, PDP-11/60+RL01, PDP-11/34, East Lansing MI

[Dan Cohoe]

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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Steven Maresca via cctalk
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2017 11:59 AM
To: Noel Chiappa; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: IBM S/32, PDP-11/60+RL01, PDP-11/34, East Lansing MI

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk < cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

>     > Is anyone confirmed to be picking this stuff up?
>

I'll put my hand up on this.  

Much of the trove had already gone to scrap before this group got wind of it.  And for a lot of it that was probably the right thing though it pains me to say that.  The house cleaners had been there before I contacted the owner immediately after the message appeared on the list.
The S/32 all went to scrap as it had been a possum home for a number of years, the 11/60 cabinets were scrapped a few days prior to the list contact and the 11/34 had also been severely damaged by animals while being stored in a garage for approximately 10 years.  The 11/60 processor was stored in better conditions and consists of two BA11 style boxes. 

There was a well preserved Flexowriter recovered in pieces, but likely complete, and a bunch of ADM3a terminals.   I also brought home a very, very rough TU 55. Unfortunately another, possibly a TU 56, had been scrapped a few days earlier as well. 
The owner, Greg, was one of the nicer people I have met over the years.  He lives near the MSU surplus sale site and was a good customer there.

We need a better way to be recognized as a place to post situations like this earlier in people's decision process on how to clear out a house.

BTW, I should also report on the recovery of the Triad system early in January.  Will Donzelli and I came back from that location with the Triad rack, a re-badged Interdata system (8-32) and a lot of interesting terminals as well as a few CDC 9726H cartridge drives.  We may have a system for this, but have not had time to investigate.

Regards, Dan