RED ALERT!! BIG LOAD OF FREEBIES!!

From: Anthony Eros <Anthony.Eros_at_digital.com>
Date: Thu Dec 4 22:00:41 1997

I stopped in there today and they're not kidding. Piles of PDP-11s: 11/04, 11/23, 11/34, 11/44. VAX, MicroVAX, VAXstation (I picked up a Tempest-shielded VAXstation cabinet), disk and tape drives, terminals (tons of VT100s,)
monitors, documentation, you name it.

I didn't see any PDP-8s, though the guy said he thought there might be some 8/a stuff squirreled away. The DECsystem 2020 is in a single cab.

They're anxious to empty the building and stop paying rent, so at some point, the unclaimed items will be tossed.

I snagged a small pile of stuff and put dibs on a couple others that I'll be picking up early next week.

-- Tony
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From: kyrrin2_at_wizards.net[SMTP:kyrrin2_at_wizards.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 1997 3:30 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: RED ALERT!! BIG LOAD OF FREEBIES!!

ATTN: Classic Computer Rescue Crewmembers in the Dover, Delaware area!

        Take note of this missive I found on Usenet. If I were ANYwhere
near the east coast, I'd already have visited the place.

        This is a terrific opportunity for those of you who want to get
your hands dirty on DEC hardware to do it. And, if anyone goes down
there and finds an M7552 module (RRD50 controller), please snare it
for me! ;-)

        Attachment follows.

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OK. The powers that be no longer want to store this stuff, so the
time has come to make it go away.

We have around 5000 square feet of Vax and PDP equipment
that needs to find new homes. It's mostly older Qbus and Unibus
stuff, so don't expect to find state of the art stuff in here.

There is way too much stuff to list, but in a nutshell, there are
vaxen from 11/730 up to 8820, with many microvaxen in ba23's
and ba123's. There are many unibus pdp-11's, and some
pdp-8 stuff.

There is also a DEC-system 2020.

Many peripherals. TONS of books, manuals, and printsets.
Miles of tape, zillions of disk packs, many 8" floppies, etc.

If someone is looking for something in particular, let me
know and I can see if it is there. Your best bet, however,
is to come walk around and see what you can use.

Equipment is free for the taking and is located in Dover,
Delaware. Don't respond if you are only interested in
scrap. We want to get rid of it, but don't want to see
the stuff junked. Hell, we can junk the stuff ourselves
if that is what we wanted to do. We thought there should
be people out there that can use this equipment.

take one piece, or take everything. First come, first
served. You haul. Unfortunately, we do not have time to
package things for shipping, although if the item is small
enough, and you make a good enough case, exceptions
may be possible. :-)

We are interested in moving this stuff quickly, so please
respond if interested. Email address has been purposely
munged to prevent spam. Re-assemble the address
below to respond.

Thanks,
Jim Bender
jbender at
corpamerica dot com
Received on Thu Dec 04 1997 - 22:00:41 GMT