PDP 11/40, VT50 or VT52, LA36

From: Ashley Carder <wacarder_at_usit.net>
Date: Wed Apr 14 10:19:54 2004

Does anyone on this list have any of the following
items that they would be interested in getting rid of:

PDP 11/40 with rack and RK05 drive(s)
VT50 or VT52 DecScope
LA36 Decwriter
RK05 pack with RSTS/E

I would like to attempt to reconstruct the computer
that my friends and I used in college from 1975-80.
Our former professor who was also director of the
computer center and is now retired has indicated that
he might offer some assistance in reconstructing the
environment if we can find a PDP 11/40. Our college
junked their 11/40 in 1989 or shortly thereafter. The
new generation of computer people there "cleaned up"
old junk and threw away anything that was left from
the 11/40 that we knew and loved.

We have created a pretty faithful replica using Bob
Supnik's emulator and have it available via TELNET
on the internet. Several of us had complete prints
from the late 70s of all the source programs on the
system. It was running RSTS/E with Basic Plus. It took
a while to find someone with a soft copy of the
Basic Plus version of ADVENTure, but I was able to get
a copy from someone who was in Project Delta and
have loaded that to our RK05 disk image for our
simulated 11/40.

We would like to get our hands on the real hardware
so we can feel the heat and hear the fans whirring
once again!

Thanks for any and all help that anyone can provide!

Ashley
Received on Wed Apr 14 2004 - 10:19:54 BST

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