You know, you might try e-mailing Geoff Rochat. He can sometimes be
difficult, but he might know where some of this hardware is, or suggest
shortcuts.
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Ashley Carder wrote:
> 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
>
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M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
Received on Mon Apr 19 2004 - 09:00:05 BST