A moment of silence, please

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Tue Aug 12 09:17:13 1997

I attended a hamfest Sunday, in order to clear out some crap. I managed
to get a few things, namely RSX-11M manuals, and a maintenance manual for
a big CDC drive.

I also talked to a guy that deals with old computers. Two weeks ago, he
_finally_ scrapped out a bunch of old machines - really old. Amongst the
deaths were various PDP-8s, two PDP-9s, a Burroughs mainframe, and an IBM
7090 of some sort.

Of course I wretched. The loss of the PDP-8s is bad (I do not know
specific model numbers), but the others are a real shame. Known PDP-9s
number in the _low_ single digits, the 7090 perhaps less, but old
Burroughs equipment is probably extinct.

In any case, this shows that the stuff was not _all_ scrapped years ago.

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Tue Aug 12 1997 - 09:17:13 BST