RESCUE NEEDED, EASTERN U.S., TIME-CRITICAL!

From: Bruce Lane <kyrrin_at_jps.net>
Date: Tue Apr 7 10:33:53 1998

        This stuff is apparently going to get hauled away by the Garbage
Gorillas on Wednesday of this week, so move quick and reply directly to
the sender (john_at_egh.com, or call at (781-861-0670) if you want the
stuff...

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From: jasantos_at_ultranet.com (John A Santos)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp11
Subject: Free Unibus hardware (act fast...)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 06:14:36 -0400
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My company is cleaning the basement, and there is a large collection
of PDP-11 (mostly, some useful on VAXes) stuff that is going to be
carted away on Wednesday (4/8) by the junk man.

If anyone near Lexington Mass wants to grab any of it (or if you are
willing to pay shipping, for the smaller items), please email me
or call me at work. Unfortunately I just found out about it today,
and it is going tomorrow, so there isn't much time to rescue this
stuff from oblivion.

Items include:

Unibus backplanes (4 & 9 slot, a couple of each)
4 or 5 Unibus cables, varying lengths (at least one is brand new.)
Lots of Unibus jumpers (M920 and some of the long ones (M9200?))
Thousands (well, dozens) of Grant jumpers (G727?)

2 DELUA's + cab kits
2 UDA-50's + cab kits (I think one has one bad board, the other works)
1 DH11 (and maybe some spare parts)
4 DZ11's (with CAB kits)

2 KMD11's (X.25 interface with a KMC11B and a line and modem board)

1 or two DV11's (synch multiplexor)

1 TMB-11 (TU10/TE10 controller)

1 RH11 (Unibus to massbus interface, has a stuck bit)

1 LP11 interface

several DL11 boards, various vintages

2 Able (?) boards that each emulate 4 DL11's.

2 BA11 10 1/2 inch expansion boxes, one in pieces.

2 TE16 and one TE10 9-track tape drives, mostly disassembled
2 TM03 (maybe one is a TM02) Massbus tape formatters.

Lots of H945? power regulators (I think they take 18V AC and output
either +-5V DC or +-15V DC, depending on model) Anyway, these are
the boxes about 4x6x8 inches that sit inside BA11's and PDP 11/40-
vintage CPU cabs.

There are also some print sets and manuals for some of this stuff.

There might be a few Massbus cables, too.

There might also be an old PDP-11/40 CPU board set.

If you want any of this stuff, either email me (at work is better; I'll
see it sooner) john_at_egh.com, or call me (781-861-0670).

I can't guarantee that any particular items on this list won't be grabbed
back by the powers that be, or that any particular item works, but hey!
Many of the bits were working when last used, in October.

This list is all from memory, so I could be wrong about quantities.

It is mostly sitting in a big pile waiting for the trash-man, who rumor
has will be coming on Wednesday, so this is both your first and last
chance.

If you want some particular item, but can't arrange shipping or to drop
by, let me know and if it isn't too big, I can probably rescue it and
save it for you.

John Santos
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Bruce Lane, SysOp,
The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fido 1:343/272)
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