Hi Kevin,
Well, I think I've got just the thing for you!
I've been trying to clear out most of the rest of the Big DEC Haul I had
purchased/rescued in July 1998. Still a lot left. Among the bunch of big
iron left to get shed of is a 6' PDP-11 rack with a TS03 and its
controller. The controller is mounted in a 10.5" BA11 similar to your
11/34A BA11 (PSUs are a bit different in the 11/34 as you may know. More
5VDC current capacity.) If you were reasonably close you could come over
and fetch it. But BC is basically at the other end of the continent though :(
Although I haven't had time to post the list of available hardware since I
think this past late Winter, I had tried through '98 and '99 to dispose of
the gear. I'm just recently able to spend a bit more time reading
ClassicCmp and my other radio-related lists. The only things that found new
homes are the VAX 11/750 and TU80 tape with RA81 drive both in a 40" rack
(Thanks Will J. for taking it and thanks again Bill Donzelli for taking
them out to a drop-off point in Iowa!) plus a company down in Columbus,
Ohio bought the LP-25 printer as a spare.
Anyway, this is to say that I think I'm going to have to part-out the gear
and scrap the remnants - which does not impress me in the very least. So
Kevin, it looks like you may be able to get as much as you need (and
hopefully more!) for your TS03 system. There's a heap of 7" 800 BPI tapes
available too - about 85 or so.
I intend to post the list of available DEC gear one last time for
interested takers before I have to resort to dismantling them for parts and
scrap. If things remain slow at work (i.e., finally less than 60+ hour
weeks) I'll try to post it late this week.
That Big Haul began as a purchase for a very reasonable price of a MicroVAX
II and a Grey Wall, RT-11 and RSX-11 Orange Walls, PDP 11/23, Handbooks,
schematics, stacks of other docs, parts, etc. Small stuff, basically.
The fellow I got it from saw I'd brought a 15-foot Ryder Rental truck with
a liftgate (smallest truck Ryder had _available_ at the time). The purchase
turned into a rescue of two VAXen (11/730 & 11/750), several 11/34A's,
bunch of RL02s, four RK07s, decWriter I's, II's and III's, several VT100s,
PDP 11/24, MicroPDP-11 (11/73), another 11/23, RA60, disk pacs, tapes, etc,
etc. which ended up stuffing that truck with barely enough room to pull the
door down. He was about to call a scrapper as there was no other interest
in the stuff from anybody. I think the thing was loaded above its legal
weight limit (18,000 lbs gross wt). If I had a bigger truck, the guy would
have sent several thousand pounds _more_ home with me. Oh well, I'll think
TWICE next time before I get myself into such a haul. My wife will make
sure of it!! ;-)
Upon the date 04:02 PM 10/22/00 -0700, Kevin McQuiggin said something like:
>Hi Group:
>
>I'm looking for a controller for my TS03 tape drive, freshly racked in a
>nice
>11/34A recently rescued from North Vancouver.
-- snip TMB11 module list --
>I realize that this is a longshot, but anybody that has one that's
>available, please contact me!
Actually a "shortshot" ;-)
>
>Thanks as well to those that helped with my recent 11/34 booting and console
>questions!
Thanks from me too as I've had to literally drop any contact with getting
my 11/34A running because of life and stuff getting in the way. Been over a
year since I had a chance to touch it. That thread will be very important
to keep as I've had a very similar or identical problem (can't find my
notes on it now though). Maybe this Winter time will open up a bit (???).
BTW, I'm in Western NY State close to Lake Erie.
Regards, Chris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA cfandt_at_netsync.net
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Received on Sun Oct 22 2000 - 20:39:34 BST