S.F. Bay Area -- PDP-11 HW available -- Disks and Tape for 11/44

From: pzachary_at_sasquatch.com <(pzachary_at_sasquatch.com)>
Date: Tue Aug 31 20:38:27 2004

thanks for the heads up, snd I'd be glad to trade a micro pdp-11 for the
44, would you prefer a 11/23 in a ba23 deskside enclosure or a ba11
rackmount enclosure?
I'll try to get up to rescue the tape drive and perhaps at least the HDAs
from the RA81s.

 Pavl_

> I was up at Mike Quinn's on Saturday, and inquired about classic
> computers. After mentioning the PDP-11 by name, the guy there
> (Maurice) pointed me to an 11/44 he had in the back. The racks were
> already spoken for, and the contents had been pulled out and were
> sitting
> face-down on the floor. There was an 11/44 CPU, two RA-81 disk
> drives, and a 9-track tape drive, a TU-80 or TU-81, I believe.
> He was willing to let it go pretty cheap, $100 for the CPU and
> RA-81s, or $50 for the CPU. He thought the motors in the tape
> drive would sell for $25 each, so he wanted at least $50 for
> that. Seeing the lack of respect this poor old machine was getting
> (dumped on the floor to salvage the rack), and having some space
> in my trunk, I snapped up the CPU without much further thought.
>
> I figure a collector should have a shot at those drives before
> Quinn's sells them to a scrapper or someone who wants to strip them for
> parts. I don't have the space for them, nor enough interest in the
> later 11's to justify renting any more on their account. I could
> possibly be talked out of the CPU. I'd certainly take a smaller Q-bus
> '11 in trade. Heck, a convincing promise of a good home with some
> happy peripherals to talk to and reimbursement of the $50 I spent would
> probably do. :)
>
> --Bill
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