Approaching Scrappers

From: James Rice <jrice_at_texoma.net>
Date: Tue Oct 19 16:43:37 1999

Opps, that was supposed to be an 11/780

James Rice wrote:

> I was given an 11/870 last year in november and since i'm not into DEC systems,
> I advertised it here as available for pickup...no body seemed interested so it
> went to the scapper in January.
>
> Bill Pechter wrote:
>
> > > You are quite right Mike.
> >
> > > The factory is being levelled in middle November and anything that is left
> > > will have the building dropped on it. (I did however find out from a prior
> > > purchasing officer that the systems I am pulling out are:
> > >
> >
> > > Vax 11/780 - yuck, I'll trash that.
> >
> > Oh nooooo! My favorite toy. The 11/03 external 32 bit Virtual Memory Unit
> > and high speed floating point.
> >
> > At least pull the 11/03 and RX01 floppy drive unit out and save them.
> > The unit is serpentine QBus and I'd love to have one of these
> > (even wouthout the Vax)
> >
> > > If you have deep pockets to buy every computer mini they find in an old
> > > factory then you can score quite often.
> > >
> > > john
> > >
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > ---
> > bpechter_at_shell.monmouth.com|pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org
> > Three things never anger: First, the one who runs your DEC,
> > The one who does Field Service and the one who signs your check.
Received on Tue Oct 19 1999 - 16:43:37 BST

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