Re: looking for hardware

[Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello!
I'm not Dave, but I'll give it a try.
Here we have a few museums who take extreme pains to restore the
hardware to that new look and that they can actually do meaningful
work to impress the visitors.

What Dave is up to is simply best stated by himself. We also have a
hobbyist network that follows the way the way the DEC machines found
themselves networked.

It's also extended to parts of Europe.

And then there is Dave and myself, and one or two others........

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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8%gmail.com@localhost
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:50 PM, pierre-philipp braun
<pbraun%nethence.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> what organizations are there in the US about keeping old hardware alive?  In
> France we have a few associations made of individual collectors but nothing
> more for now unfortunately.  I myself own a few DEC and SUNs but nothing
> older than a VAX station.  I would love to see and play with PDP-11 boxen.
> Do you have some?  It's not like I am planning to travel in East USA in the
> near feature anyway, but who knows.  And it's also good to make contacts in
> this small hardware preservation community.  It is small in France and
> Europe, at least.  I am not sure how it is in the US.
>
> pierre-philipp
>
> Quoting Dave McGuire 17/12/2013 07:34,
>
>>   Hey folks.  A bit OT for this list, but this is as good a place as any.
>> ;)
>>
>>   I'm looking for some larger-than-4MB SIMMs for a VAXstation 4000-90, a
>> VR-290 monitor, a working RA-60 drive...or any other SDI-interfaced
>> drives, preferably somewhere near the Pittsburgh, PA area.
>>
>>   And, actually, I'm interested in any vintage DEC hardware that's
>> looking for a new home.  I have a lot of space here, 3-phase power, and
>> I'm building what will eventually be a public museum.  Bring it on. B-)
>>
>>                -Dave
>>
>