Hi Enrico,
You may heartened to know to that the History Center has a complete,
runnable, IBM 4381 in its collection. It was in use up to time of donation
(last October) at the A. C. Delco plant in Rochester, NY.
The machine is on display and in excellent condition. All necessary
cabling, and I believe system software (we received about 100 reels of tape
we haven't read yet), a million punch cards (literally), and manuals formed
part of the donation.
Best,
Dag.
At 04:30 PM 11/25/99 +0100, you wrote:
>
>
>Philip.Belben_at_powertech.co.uk wrote:
>>
>>
>> Well I replied to the address you set up, but it seemed to have
problems, so
>> perhaps my message didn't get through.
>
>I know, that day I had a 9 hour stop while the telco upgraded some local
>routers.
>
>> I worked at IBM when the 4381 was current, and I'd like to see one
saved. Not
>> sure how much help I can be at this distance, since I mainly worked on PCs,
>
>Mainly knowhow. The curren users are no longer capable of creating VM for a
>different hardware configuration; none of us guys involved in the salvage
>have been VM administrators, mainly CMS users...
>
>> > Have I 'invested' on the wrong thing to save? 8-(
>>
>> Your decision. If you think it's worth saving, save it. I think it's
worth
>> saving, but I'm not sure there's much I can do to help (which makes it
easier
>> for me to declare my support, I suppose). I will e-mail you privately...
>
>Connecting to other messages on the subject; we have managed to get a real
truck
>something long aprox. 25mt. that will haul everything in one load.
>
>e.
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> Wanted, for hobbyist use, any type of PDP and microVAX hardware,software,
> manuals,schematics,etc. and DEC-10 docs or manuals
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