-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: Would you take my PDP-8I for ?
>
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>--- John B <dylanb_at_sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> LOOKING FOR AN RM08 or.....
>>
>> Would be willing to trade me a transistor peripheral(s)for a major piece
of
>> equipment like a PDP-8I...
>>
>> I am looking for any of these transistor peripherals:
>
>I don't have a *one* of those... I do have a couple of DF-32 (w/DS-32)
systems
I have two too! Can't wait to solve the head crashing problem.... I have a
drum memory unit for my PDP-15 but nothing like that for an 8 or 8/s. Aside
from acoustic memory, I find drum memory is the coolest device to run.
>which I want to hang onto long enough to re-check out (now that I know lots
>more about them) and at least one PA-60, which is, IIRC, some kind of
printer
>driver for newspaper-type printers.
Never heard of it..
>
>Good luck dredging up that antediluvian hardware. You seem to have had
quite
>a lot of good luck lately.
Not really. I just usually scrapped this kind of stuff and jumped on
Honeywell/PDP 11s/HP minis. I always thought 8s were junk (well.....)...
This spring things were getting slow in mini requests so I started scrapping
a lot of good stuff.. even a lot of PDP-8 boards (I mean a lot)... I didn't
know about this list/ebay 6 months ago and I suspect most computer
collectors/restorers still don't.
I am going into three more plants before February filled with only really
old DEC/IBM stuff... One site had quite a few DECTape drives I will be
grabbing. Usually, most *old* steel factories I go into have a really old
mini (pre '68) hidden in a room somewhere... I am hoping for more transistor
peripherals from my 8. At least 1 Straight-8 has been found at one of the
sites but I already have that sold to someone (less the peripherals of
course :-) )
Good luck with your minis!
john
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>-ethan
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Received on Wed Nov 17 1999 - 14:32:06 GMT