What to do with an 11/44!

From: Mitch Wright <mew_jac_at_swbell.net>
Date: Sun Nov 1 19:27:26 1998

Very good, I thought you were going to put it in your living room and
turn it on.
 I got mine to study what they did right and what they got wrong. And I
enjoy a learning curve of figuring out how things work. I pretty much
came on the scene when everyone was dumping their PDP&VAX fot unix
workstations.

--Mitch


Buck Savage wrote:
>
> Actually, the machine is less for my personal use as it is for posterity.
> My
> goal is the creation of a museum of such computers, so that our posterity
> will not soon forget the nature of computers in the 1970's, perhaps into the
> 60's. I doubt that I shall ever get a chance to obtain machines like the
> 7090,
> 1620, and 1401 (all IBM). Nor will I likely obtain ENIAC. Yet, there is
> still
> time to salvage and restore many mainframes, machines which will never
> again be graced with production runs, fresh Hollerith cards, etc. These
> first
> and second generation electronic digital computers are clearly antiques,
> and the processors of our day will soon join them in history. That is what
> a museum is all about. Remember, those who forget the past are doomed
> to repeat it!
>
> William R. Buckley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitch Wright <mew_jac_at_swbell.net>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Date: Sunday, November 01, 1998 3:44 PM
> Subject: Re: PDP-11/44 boot prompt
>
> >So what are you personaly going to do with 30' of rip roaring PDP-11/44
> >and diskdrives?
> >
> >--Mitch
> >
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