--- Anthony Clifton - Wirehead <wirehead_at_retrocomputing.com> wrote:
>
>
> I have in my garage:
>
> (1) PDP-11/34 with RK05j and RK05f
> (1) PDP-11/84 with RA80 and TU80
> (3) PDP-8/I, one with high speed paper tape punch reader and
> one with DECTape
> (1) ASR-33 which goes with the 8/Is
Nice set.
> I would like these machines to leave my garage, preferably all
> at the same time, and travel to someone else's place who has:
>
> 1. Enough space to give them a permanent home
> 2. Enough time to restore and preserve them as they SHOULD BE
> 3. Enough love for them to not turn them into some kind of weird
> investment scheme for EBay
> 4. ...and Enough money to bring an appropriately sized vehicle
> with a lift gate to Des Moines, Iowa to retrieve them
I suspect that many people on the list have number one, quite a few have number
two, a good many of us have number three, but number four is the kicker.
I'm in Ohio and I'm not prepared to haul 4+ racks from Iowa (plus I already
have an 8/i and some of the other stuff)
> At any rate, I intend to only sell these to someone on ClassicCmp.
> They will NOT appear on Ebay, Usenet or any other forum frequented
> by people who are not necessarily collectors.
Good for you.
> The 8/Is are 3 out of a set of just under 4000 ever produced.
Wow. I haven't looked up the numbers in Doug Jones' FAQ lately; I thought
there were more of them made than that.
> I'd like ideas, suggestions, etc. If anyone REALLY, REALLY wants these
> and just know you have to have them, and you have the above characteristics
> and you have money, trades, etc. I'm willing to consider that too.
Of all the systems you've mentioned, the -8/i with the DECtape is the only
part that I would really want, partially because my only DECtape is a
TU56/TD8E combo, and because I have always wanted to run OS/8 on my own
-8/i, but I have no mass storage device for it (only high-speed paper tape)
You are over 10 hours drive from my house, and I'm a lot closer than most of
the people on the list. It's a worthy goal, but to make a road trip from,
say, California, would be an epic journey. If anyone from the East Coast
is willing to make the trip, I could be interested in participating in the
western leg of it.
-ethan
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Received on Fri Jun 04 1999 - 07:09:18 BST