PDP 11/84 systems available

From: Kevin Handy <kth_at_srv.net>
Date: Wed Dec 10 08:58:55 2003

Brent Hilpert wrote:

>A friend who manages some communications systems expects to be decommissioning 3 or 4 PDP 11/84 systems soon (~ end of 2003). These systems have been functioning for approaching-two-decades in a (presumably) good environment.
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>Sorry to be a little vague on details (I'm recalling this from a quick verbal discussion) but each system is something like:
> PDP 11/84 CPU
> RL02 removable-platter disc drive
> MD17 / MD175 fixed disc (?)
> tape drive (9-track I believe, but that seems a little odd, like it would more likely be those mid-80s DEC cartridges)
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Probably a TSV05. Fairly common on 11/8*'s. 9-track autoload drive,
1600bpi only.
Could be just about anything else without a description. It may be a TK50
you are thinking of, or the nasty TK25.

> other I/O interfaces presumably
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>I don't know what OS they were running/installed with. Email me and I'll try to get clarifications if desired.
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>I know these aren't the most desirable units of the PDP 11 family (too young and no blinkenlights) (poor not-so-little things), but any takers for adoption? Any bits or modules to be rescued for someone?
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Nice machines, and require a lot less power to run than an 11/70. Also a lot
less room. Has 22-bit bus, and split I&D space.

>Location is Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Price is take-it-away-it's-yours (unless we can twist your arm into making a donation to the radio museum with which we are associated). (Smaller bits I will consider doing for the price of shipping.)
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