Article about collecting in Antique Trader.

From: Glenatacme_at_aol.com <(Glenatacme_at_aol.com)>
Date: Thu Jul 1 22:45:49 1999

Hello Tony:

In a message dated 7/1/99 5:07:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk writes:

> Admission time... I have quite a collection of home computers as well,

Ha! I _knew_ it!! ;>)

>> Why do the Brits hate the BBC Micro?

> No idea. In fact I didn't know we did

Must just be the ZX Brits I usually hang around with . . .

> Hmm... Unix came out first on a PDP7, but later versions ran on the
> PDP11. I am not sure where C came in all this, but there are certainly
> PDP11 versions.

> I've never heard of either fitting on a PDP8.

See -- I told you I was ignorant of these machines . . .

> BTW, you can get a license from SCO for the old PDP11 unices (source code
> :-)) for $100 for home use only.

Nice to know they're still available. $100 seems fair.

Anyway, thanks for all the great information re large computers. For years
I've read about them and used code which was developed on them, but I've
never seen or touched one.

Any tips on where to stumble onto some of this gear, other than just hanging
around universities, waiting for them to throw something out?

Regards,

Glen Goodwin
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Received on Thu Jul 01 1999 - 22:45:49 BST