As has already been mentioned, Dayton is _not_ the place to go to look
for used DEC parts. I only spotted a couple of table-top uVAXen. I
did get a Kaypro 2 for $25 (and the kid dragged to my car!), a $2 VIC-20
with $1 C2N and some modern stuff.
I didn't spend anywhere near as much as I usually do. Not all that many
things lept out at me. There were scads of $5 and $10 Pentium boards,
crates of ISA NICs and lots of stuff that just isn't all that interesting.
I did make the T-shirts, one from the photo of a working PDP-8/e and one
from the scan of the marketing literature. The text above and below the
picture said:
Wanted: PDP8's
Report all sightings to classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
Several people walked up and started conversations based on seeing two of
us wandering around with a PDP on our backs. Nobody had any spares. :-(
P.S. - where's a good place to get a Kaypro boot disk? I have a licensed
copy of teledisk so I should be able to make them from bits, yes?
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Received on Sun May 16 1999 - 12:24:18 BST