On Nov 27, 22:24, Witchy wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org
> > [mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of O. Sharp
[...]
> > I'm _still_ irked about this... not least of all at myself, for
having
> > waited too damn long for a "right moment" to ask about this
machine.
> > Damn it, damn it, damn it. :(
> >
> > ...There. That's my True Confession(tm).
>
> Several years ago before I was collecting the company I worked for
had
> expanded so much there wasn't room to house the old DEC kit we'd
acquired
> over the years. I didn't have room at home and couldn't find anyone
who was
> interested to take it so many things got tossed; VT52s, VT100s,
VT102s, a
> VT180 (I kept the disks), RL02s, TS11 or two, TU81, MicroVAXen,
MicroPDPs,
> terminal servers........etc etc etc....gah!
OK, mine concerns a PDP-11/40. When I got it, it wasn't in a rack,
just lying on the floor, minus the power supply, a few wires cut, a bit
of rust here and there, and no docs. At the time I didn't have a
Unibus machine with a full lights-and-switches front panel, so I took
it anyway. After 2 or 3 years of lying on *my* floor, I gave up trying
to get a power supply sorted out, and gave it away to someone whom I
suspect broke it up. The sad thing is that it had a full complement of
boards in the CPU (my present 11/40 has no FPU, no MMU, etc) and a few
extra goodies. Moreover, it turns out to have been been one used for
the developmenmt of MUMPS, so it was actually a more historic machine
than many.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Wed Nov 26 2003 - 17:26:56 GMT