Subject: DEC swap meet?(RE: Off Topic? PDP 11 1134/1145's)
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/03/2002 10:06:57
(cc'd to ClassicCmp list, I'm sure there's interest there...)

> From: 	Brian Hechinger
> 
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:26:23PM -0800, Lyle Bickley wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > May I make another suggestion?  A bunch of us here in the Silicon Valley
> are 
> > fans of old DEC equipment.  We get 'em and restore 'em.  Some favor PDPs
> (one 
> > guy even has two DEC 10's), some favor the smaller 11's and others of us
> like 
> > old VAXes.  At any rate, we meet once a month for lunch and swap
> stories, 
> > tell what stuff we've picked up, etc.  All of us are willing to trade 
> > equipment or donate books and equipment to each other.  We studiously
> avoid 
> > EBAY.
> 
> so who's on the east coast that would like to do this?  i'm in philly, and
> i
> know isildur is in pittsburg.  don't know where we would want to meet
> though,
> since some people would have to travel far for that.  thoughts?  ideas?
> --
> 
	I'd be up for it. A flea-market swap-meet kinda thing, right? Maybe
we can get something going up here in New Haven, CT?

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