PDP11/34 Being Retired and Scrapped

From: James L. Rice <jrice_at_texoma.net>
Date: Sun Jun 7 11:29:02 1998

It's located in Sherman Texas, approximately 60 miles north of Dallas.
Both the guy with the HP and the DEC that is being removed from service.

Joel Fedorko wrote:
>
> How about locations? (city, state) thanks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James L. Rice [SMTP:jrice_at_texoma.net]
> Sent: Sunday, June 07, 1998 9:15 AM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: PDP11/34 Being Retired and Scrapped
>
> A plant at which I work is retiring a PDP11/34 and two Industrial I/O
> racks later this month. This machine has at least two sets of spare
> boards and even a spare hard drive as well as a complete set of
> manuals. It has been under a DEC service contract and has been running
> 24/7 for the last 20 years. After I transfer control of the furnaces to
> AB PLC's later this month, the DEC has been promised to a scrap yard in
> the Dallas area. If I can pry it away from the scrapper grasp, would
> anyone want it. I'm not into mini's so I don't want it, but I hate to
> see it get recycled for the metal.
>
> Also, I know where a HP 3000 can be picked up for probably under a
> $100. It has a hard drive, at least a med of ram, a 9 track tape drive
> (requires 3ph 208v), 10-12 HP2392 (as I recall) terminals, all of the
> cables, boards, expanders, a modem and was running when removed. If
> anyone is intrested, let me know and I'll pass your email adress to this
> guy.
>
> James
Received on Sun Jun 07 1998 - 11:29:02 BST