Well, folks, I'm a happy camper today. In a nice contrast against recent
reports of list members screwing over other list members, I have some good
news. Today, I met up with another list member in the mid-south USA. We
had a fund day hopping around a scrapyard, and each of use went home with
some cool gear.
We found all sorts of goodies: remains of some Interdata minis, a DG Nova
3, a MicroVAX II, TS05 tape drive, piles of RA8x and other drives, a
PDP-11/34, several VAX 4000-400s, some 8-bit stuff, and surely much more.
The main thing I ended up carrying away, though, due to my schedule and
the lack of space in my truck bed for anything else, was a PDP-11/70
carcass. I say 'carcass', because the scrappers had already yanked the
cards out of all the cages and because there were a few other things
missing. However, I've been lusting for a /70, and finding what I did put
me a good ways along towards having a complete system. Cost: $20 for two
H960 racks.
This /70 is disguised as a DECdatasystem 570. I've got some questions
about that, but I'll put them in another thread.
The list member and his party were extremely nice. To save me the trouble
of driving to a nearby ATM to get cash, a member of the party loaned me
the dough. I was also treated to lunch at a nearby restaurant after
leaving the scrapyard. Thanks for the hospitality, guys!
So now I'm driving around with this PDP-11/70 in my truck. For a bit of
fun, I showed it to a girl from work, being the evil bastard that I am.
Much to my surprise, she seemed to actually be *interested* in the
machine. No running away or screaming occurred.
I'll hopefully be going back to this scrapyard in a few weeks to get some
of the things I left behind this time.
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss_at_subatomix.com
Received on Sun Feb 24 2002 - 02:19:27 GMT