On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, David Evans wrote:

>   You and John have to stop--you're making me want to take up my PDP-11
> search again.  And I've been told that I'm not allowed to bring home any more
> old DEC machines...

Well, now we're getting wildly off-topic but it's nice to see traffic in
port-vax...  I exchanged some e-mail with a guy over the weekend who had
just sold off all his J11 boards, he scrapped all his F11 boards for the
trace gold, he traded in all his disk packs for aluminum scrap, and then
he shredded all the documentation for the stuff.  Ack.  This was done
just last Friday.

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The following is a post about a system which could still perhaps benefit
from rescue.

From: Bob Schor <bschor@vms.cis.pitt.edu>
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: 11/44 Available in NYC
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 07:11:27 -0400
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     I have just turned off a PDP-11/44 which has been pretty much
continuously running since the early 1980's (I'm not sure when we got it
from DEC).  It is available to anyone
who wants it, but you better act fast, as others are itching to get the
room it is in (and will
probably consign it to the dumpster).  There are also two RK06 drives,
but we haven't been
using them for perhaps a decade (using a Winchester disk on a Dilog MSCP
controller).
There are also two DZ boards on this system, plus documentation (again,
act quickly!).

     Give me a call or send e-mail ASAP.  This machine is located at
Rockefeller University
in New York City.  You would need to Come and Get It ...

Bob Schor
University of Pittsburgh
(412) 647-2116
bschor@vms.cis.pitt.edu

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