Are you sitting down?

From: Jay West <jlwest_at_tseinc.com>
Date: Fri Jun 4 07:34:05 1999

I would be very interested in the 11/34 rack with the two RK05's, and the
ASR33.

I have no interest in the 11/84, and while I am somewhat interested in the
8i, I already have an 8E so I should take a back seat to anyone who doesn't
have an 8.

I'm in Missouri, so Iowa wouldn't be that big of a deal for me. I would be
willing to tandem up with others and take a hand in getting the equipment
and splitting it up with other collectors. If anyone wants to get together
on this, just let me know.

I certainly meet criteria 1 through 3, and 4 as well if someone will partner
up with me for the drive and dissemination.

Jay West
-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: Are you sitting down?


>--- 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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