Tom Jennings declared on Tuesday 02 December 2003 02:25 am:
> ...as if I need more things to do, I've always wanted a Nova 1200 or
> a smallish General Automation machine, 8K/16K/32K core and a tty
> interface. I have no desire for high-maintenance disk systems, though
> a linc tape would be nice (used those with the DG before).
>
> Are these things ever available? Anyone have one they'd like to part
> with?
I managed to fall across a GA SPC-16/40 and 16/45 back in spring of this
year. They were the *first* machine's I've acquired with a nice
blinkenlites frontpanel (and, still the only one I have... still need a
PDP-11 with proper frontpanel...). I managed to grab both of the CPUs,
their power supplies (external from the chassis) the I/O cabinet for
one of them, and a disk pack drive.
One of them seemed to work fairly well (the /45 I think) and the other
has some issues with the processor datapaths.
Of course, when you get a good thing, it end up getting screwed up by
others... I had the thing sitting in my office at Purdue and aparently
left one of the frontpanels sitting too close to the trash can, or
something. So, now I'm down to just one complete machine...which needs
its frontpanel to be fixed. Sigh.
-- Pat
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Received on Tue Dec 02 2003 - 09:11:37 GMT