PDP-8 for free, ACT FAST!!!! Like, This afternoon

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_freegate.com>
Date: Fri Dec 18 13:21:19 1998

If somebody on this list can manage it (All of the flights from SFO to
boston have already left, damn!) and the 8/e's can have their memory
reduced without disabling them (ie they are multiple nK memory units rather
than one 32K semiconductor memory board) I will send money to defray the
rescue cost in exchange for some memory (all I need is 4K :-)

E-mail if I can help.
--Chuck

At 01:41 PM 12/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>The following was posted on alt.sys.pdp8... I don't have
>any other knowledge of it, and can't save it myself...
>
>SOMEONE, please save it!
>
>I have been asked to post the following anonymous tip about the availability
>of a PDP-8 system in Boston:
>
>------------------------------
>
>Two functional PDP-8e minicomputers, 32k, RK8e disk, TD8e DECtape,
>bound for dumpster in Boston Friday afternoon, 18 december.
>Researcher has finally decided he needs floor space more than potential
>access to original data.
>Also RK05 disk packs, documentation, tapes, etc. In racks, with wheels.
>243 Charles St., Boston, alley beside Mass. Gen'l Hosp. Founders' House,
>rolling out between 4pm and 6pm. "Too much paperwork" to donate or sell,
>they say. If you have a truck, and make appropriate offerings to
>the housekeeping folks, they could be yours.
>
>------------------------------
>
>That is today! If you're in Boston and want a PDP-8 or want to help
>someone get one, please act fast! Please pass this note on to anyone
>you feel could help rescue this system.
>
> Doug Jones
> jones_at_cs.uiowa.edu
Received on Fri Dec 18 1998 - 13:21:19 GMT