DEC VAX 785 and PDP11/70's in Kansas City

From: Michael Sokolov <msokolov_at_ivan.Harhan.ORG>
Date: Mon Apr 19 17:27:19 2004

Ashley Carder <wacarder_at_usit.net> wrote:

> I want a real unibus PDP-11 badly so I can move a copy of my reincarnated college
> 11/40 RSTS/E environment off Bob Supnik's simulator and onto some real hardware.
>
> It seems like the guys that have all the good stuff already just keep getting more
> while the latecomers sit here with the simulator running the old stuff on a PC via
> Telnet.

The proper way to make a real PDP-11 (or VAX or any other Classic computer)
available to everyone who wants one is put them back in FULL PRODUCTION. Not
just hobby, but real full production and commercial sales (for a reasonable
commercial price).

I'm working on a new VAX chip and will soon be putting VAXen in full production.
I can't do the same for PDP-11 because it just isn't my area of expertise, but
my close fried, comrade and associate Stacy Minkin is more on the PDP-11 side
and wants to build a new PDP-11 using FPGA technology just as much as I want to
do it for the VAX.

If you want new PDP-11s, E-mail him at stacy_at_ivan.Harhan.ORG and tell him that
you want to buy a PDP-11 and would be willing to pay a fair commercial price and
possibly finance the NRE cost. Stacy is a real engineer with a vision just as
grand as mine, so given enough people willing to buy this stuff (for real,
commercially, just like in The Days when it was new), he and I can build The
Real Thing: real microcoded CPU, honest-to-Daemon UNIBUS, etc., not a poor
man's emulator.

MS (who has just returned from a full weekend conference and is catching up
with E-mail)
Received on Mon Apr 19 2004 - 17:27:19 BST

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