Subject: Re: DEC swap meet?(RE: Off Topic? PDP 11 1134/1145's)
To: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
From: Linc Fessenden <linc@thelinuxlink.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/03/2002 10:02:40
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote:

> (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?

I am in as well..  Problem is I live in between Isildur and Brian so PA is
looking better and better :-)

-Linc Fessenden

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