New finds and disorganization

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Sun Jul 6 10:24:00 2003

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Jay West wrote:

> You wrote...
> > A Prime 5340 minicomputer. This is a really interesting machine, it
> > seems to be pretty loaded with expansion hardware, and even came with
> > two waist high rack cabinets, one with a 9 track tape drive, and one
> > with two more hard drives. I even got a stack of software manuals.
>
> Woah! Being a Pick/PrimeInformation nut, I'm very jealous. Great score!

Aaaargh. A year and a half ago, I had to throw out the Pr1me 550-II,
which we used to have at university in Amsterdam. I dreaded that
machine, though, but more because of the endless hours screaming
at its slowness than because of technical issues.

Last year, I had to also throw away its documentation, because nobody
(here in NL) wanted it. Docs totalled about 10 feet :)

Sad...

--fred
Received on Sun Jul 06 2003 - 10:24:00 BST