new DEC additions

From: Buck Savage <hhacker_at_gte.net>
Date: Sun Oct 4 14:38:14 1998

David:

I am short on time now, and much of what you have is not known to me,
so I can not now be of much help. I will try later.

Still, I would be interested in the CDC equipment you mention.

Where are you located, etc. I am in Southern California.

William R. Buckley

-----Original Message-----
From: SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com <SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998 11:16 AM
Subject: new DEC additions


>drove out to the country the other day and picked up this load of dec
stuff.
>some of you dec hotshots can tell me if it was worth the trip. lol
>
>i already have a microvax II, but in a tower unit form factor, almost like
a
>pc. (ba123 i think) the 3 i got are shaped different. two of them are big,
>probably over 200lbs each easy. the first one has a sticker on it showing
>model 63006. its a big unit, with a hood that opens up top and a big tape
>drive <?> that slides forward. the machine says TS05 on the front. one
model
>came with two hard drives. the other unit 'named pugsly' is the same,
except
>it has a small tape drive and the backplane has cables going everywhere and
>the side panels are off. thankfully they have wheels. the 3rd uvax is a
much
>smaller unit but wider than the one i have here in the computer room. it
has a
>dual vertical floppy drive and two hard drives.
>i also got two vt220 terminals
>about 40 orange binders about vax/vms. programmer's guide, reference, and
who
>know what else!
>a letterwriter 100
>external drive RD54
>a tape drive (tk50?)
>a rat's nest of cables to hook everything up.
>some blank dec 5.25 disks
>about 20 compactapes. half are backups. last bu was nov94.
>also got these system tapes:
>microvms 4.6 full bin
>vax fortran 4.5 bin
>decnet mvms v4 net bnd/n
>tsv05 driver bin
>microvms v4.7 bin
>vhs lic key bin
>microvms 4.6 bin mand update
>mvII diag cust
>rel:1.2.1 install microvax II (handwritten)
>
>
>heh, if anyone can explain all this, that would be most welcome. it was
hard
>work having to unload those off a truck by myself. i might keep the smaller
of
>the 3 i got, but the two big monstors, i'm unsure of. the people i got
these
>from also want to give me a CDC machine that's even bigger...
>
>david
Received on Sun Oct 04 1998 - 14:38:14 BST