-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: PDP-11/70 for Scrap
>
>
>--- Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com> wrote:
>> Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com> wrote about PDP-11/70s:
>> > I had to jump on a pair of them that... do not have a proper frontpanel
>>
>> The seven machines I purchased have real front panels... but...
>>
>> They aren't the original front panels the machines were born with.
>>
>> Later, the machines were upgraded to the QED-95 CPU, which replaces all
>> of the CPU cards (and memory) with a four-card set...
>
>Wow. Quite a history. Mine were from Borden in downtown Columbus. The
>guy that helped me get them, used to use them in the late 1970s. His
company
>(and my one-time employer) was the place I've mentioned several times that
>made DEC<->IBM sync serial connectivity products. For anyone that ever
would
>have worked with them, they were known as COLA and COLE (COLumbus CPU "A"
and
>COLumbus CPU "E"), part of a once larger setup. They are identically
>configured with the remote-diag console, 4Kw of MOS in one BA-11 in an
>attached memory cabinet (H-960), SI9900, several Fuji Eagles and a couple
of
>TU-77-sized tape drives. *Those* were a bitch to move. Fortunately for
me,
>it was all in town - $100 in moving expenses. Maybe I'll be able to get
one
>back together and powered up by Spring. I'm still fiddling with my set of
>PDP-8/Ls that all appear to have dirty backplanes.
Do you have docs for the PDP-8Ls? I have a running desktop PDP-8L coming in
next weekend and am not sure if I am getting the docs or not.
john
PDP-8 and other rare mini computers
http://www.pdp8.com
>
>-ethan
>
>
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Received on Wed Dec 08 1999 - 18:31:28 GMT