PDP-11's heading for scrap This Week in Santa Barbara

From: Frank Arnold <fm.arnold_at_gmx.net>
Date: Tue Apr 20 11:22:14 2004

Hi,

saw the following on alt.sys.pdp11, it's too far away for me :-(
would take the consoleprinters myself if this were in Munich...

Regards, Frank

>PDP-11's heading for scrap This Week in Santa Barbara, CA area
>Author Jeff Davies

>Hi, I frequent the University of California - Santa Barbara surplus
>store and noticed they have the following PDP stuff that is heading
>for the scrap heap this week unless someone comes and buys it (and
>considering that the alternative is scrap prices, it'll probably go
>cheap):
>
>(from memory, so it's probably 85% accurate):
>
>- 4 waist-high 19" racks containing the PDP stuff.
>- 2 each PDP-11/23 rackmounted
>- 2 each PDP-11/73 rackmounted
>- at least 4 RL02 drives
>- a couple or more RC25 (I think) cartridge drives
>- other random equipment that I can't identify
>- 2 Decwriter line printers/consoles
>- A big push cart full of (looks like unused) RL02 packs and RC25
>carts.
>- RSX manuals and a bunch of other documents
>
>All this stuff came from an installation that was finally turned off,
>so it looks complete.
>
>I'd get it for myself, but I just do not have room. If you're in the
>Santa Barbara / Los Angeles area and are going to pick this stuff up
>and need a hand, let me know.
>
>CONTACT:
>
>UCSB Central Stores
>(805) 893-2732
>jeff.goldmann (the at symbol) stores. ucsb. edu
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