On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, James Rice wrote:
> You know, I offered both a Vax 11/780 and a 11/34a to the list about
> five years ago. They were just being decommissioned and were also just
> off a DEC support and maint. contract. There were enough spare parts to
> build a second and most of a third 11/34a. No one wanted to come to
> Dallas and pickup and I neither had storage room or desire to collect
> DEC stuff, so both were dumpstered. I still don't care for big
> machines, but if I run across any, I'll still offer them to anyone who
> wants them.
If it was 5 years ago then that's about the beginning of the list. I
think back then, most of the people on the list were mainly interested in
micros. I know I was. It took time for me to mature and realize the
importance of ALL historic computer artifacts :)
I remember a time when William Donzelli had a hard time rousing enough
support to rescue some PDP-8a's.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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