PDP-11 help needed (Cambridge, MA)

From: Bill Bradford <mrbill_at_mrbill.net>
Date: Tue May 28 14:09:42 2002

Please contact Steve directly if you can help him...

Bill

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Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 09:29:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen L Moshier <steve_at_moshier.net>
To: <mrbill_at_pdp11.org>
Subject: pdp11 hardware

Hi, in the course of answering a question about data formats
for the GNU C compiler PDP-11 maintainer, I just ran across your
fine web site.

I have somewhere around 1000 pounds of Unibus and Q bus PDP-11
hardware down in the basement. If you know of an opportunity to
swap or obtain equipment, what I would like to do (some day)
is get a system running again in order to read out approximately
200 rolls of mag tape that are also stored in the basement
and then probably get rid of most or all of the collection.

The available hard drives are broken or rusted out, unfortunately --
some 5-, 8-, and 14-inch Winchesters, all dead. If you know where
to get working replacements, maybe there is some hope for this
project.

Thanks,
Steve Moshier

From: Stephen L Moshier <steve_at_moshier.net>
To: Bill Bradford <mrbill_at_mrbill.net>
Subject: Re: pdp11 hardware

> Steve - with your permission, I'll forward this email to a
> list of collectors who might be able to read your tapes or help
> get a system working again. Where are you located?

Bill,

The museum pieces and I are in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
You are welcome to send the information to your mailing list,

The stuff has never been inventoried. Some of the items, picked up as
spares, are still in original sealed packaging. The dual DECtape is nice
to look at. It used to work and is probably repairable. I don't
really know how may computers there are. There is an 11-thirty-something,
several 11-04 crates, several LSI-11 crates. The system that I actually
used was handmade from wire-wrapped backplane blocks. There are many
shelf feet of manuals. And so on, to items that are just useless boat anchors.

In case you cross-reference to other brands, I have been
an avid 68000 user too, and the residue includes several Motorola
systems: a VME-10 and two Delta boxes, also an AT&T Unix PC.

Steve
Received on Tue May 28 2002 - 14:09:42 BST