DEC swap meet?(RE: Off Topic? PDP 11 1134/1145's)

From: David Woyciesjes <DAW_at_yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
Date: Wed Apr 3 09:06:57 2002

(cc'd to ClassicCmp list, I'm sure there's interest there...)

> From: Brian Hechinger
>
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:26:23PM -0800, Lyle Bickley wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > May I make another suggestion? A bunch of us here in the Silicon Valley
> are
> > fans of old DEC equipment. We get 'em and restore 'em. Some favor PDPs
> (one
> > guy even has two DEC 10's), some favor the smaller 11's and others of us
> like
> > old VAXes. At any rate, we meet once a month for lunch and swap
> stories,
> > tell what stuff we've picked up, etc. All of us are willing to trade
> > equipment or donate books and equipment to each other. We studiously
> avoid
> > EBAY.
>
> so who's on the east coast that would like to do this? i'm in philly, and
> i
> know isildur is in pittsburg. don't know where we would want to meet
> though,
> since some people would have to travel far for that. thoughts? ideas?
> --
>
        I'd be up for it. A flea-market swap-meet kinda thing, right? Maybe
we can get something going up here in New Haven, CT?

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