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

From: Corda Albert J DLVA <CordaAJ_at_nswc.navy.mil>
Date: Wed Apr 3 10:42:44 2002

I'd be interested on an occasional basis... I live in Virginia, but I
grew up (and most of my family lives in) New Haven, so it would be simply
another visit home for me.

-al-
-acorda_at_1bigred.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linc Fessenden [mailto:linc_at_thelinuxlink.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:03 AM
> To: David Woyciesjes
> Cc: port-vax_at_netbsd.org; classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: DEC swap meet?(RE: Off Topic? PDP 11 1134/1145's)
>
>
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote:
>
> > (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?
>
> I am in as well.. Problem is I live in between Isildur and
> Brian so PA is
> looking better and better :-)
>
> -Linc Fessenden
>
> In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...
>
>
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