Fw: DEC PDP-11/73 in GA

From: Robert F. Schaefer <rschaefe_at_gcfn.org>
Date: Tue Sep 24 18:48:00 2002

Anyone interested in checking this out?

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kate Olin" <blue_at_intrnet.net>
To: "Robert F. Schaefer" <rschaefe_at_gcfn.org>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: DEC PDP-11/73



> Hi again, Bob,
> Sorry to bother you. You might remember I am the wife of the guy
> who saved a VAX from the scrapheap earlier this month. Well, he went and
> saved another DEC but I was wondering if you know anything about it.
> It's a Digital PDP-11/73. I'm not sure about the dash in there. Anyway,
> Dave said that it doesn't run the VMS software and it isn't the nice
specimen that
> the DEC 6000 was. But they were going to scrap it, so he paid the
> scrap price and brought it home. He was able to transport it himself
> without getting a UHaul, so he doesn't have much in it and won't have to
ask for
> much for it.
>
> Is there any interest out there in the PDP 11? He said this one
> is missing a small panel, otherwise it was physically okay.

>> Now for the bad news. Shipping is 152.89 and they would want more if
you
[------------------------------------^ to zip 43211 for a datapoint]
>> need a lift gate for it. That's the price if you have a fork lift on
your
>> end. Don't worry. I can put it on ebay. We'll save it. My husband is
>> looking at another DEC he wants to save. Tell me, he's considering a
WANG
>> too, are they as good?

> Kate
Received on Tue Sep 24 2002 - 18:48:00 BST