Conference 7.286::digital

Do you have a Digital Library?  Check with them.

    
    There's now a "hold" on 36-bit,VAX, and PRISM stuff..  Someone's
    claimed the interesting  PDP-10 / PDP-20 stuff, and someone else (of
    known curatorial bent) has claimed the VAX and PRISM stuff.  There
    apparently is still a corporate historian also (slightly surprising in
    these times).
    
    If anyone still wants to pick over the mundane stuff, or collect MIPS
    history, feel free.
    

    I've got the same sort of stuff in my cabinets in the St. Louis
    Digital office.  As I am not going to go through it all, (leaving
    friday) it will probably be there for some time before being trashed.  
    
    I even have DL10 and DA28 docs!  I can hear some of you salivating
    even now. :^}  
    
    take care,
    
    Marty
    

    try calling deb toivonen at the corporate archives office at tay2.
    
    dtn 227-3558

    I still have my PRISM & MICA manuals.
    
    Mike

    (posted with permission)
    
    From: Janet DeGraw <[email protected]>
    Subject: PDP-11
    
    Know anyone, museum or collector, who might want to purchase a PDP-11?
    Remember Gurley from Digital invented the amazing mini-computer, the
    PDP-1.
    What am I bid?  It's at my son's school and is being de-commissioned
    today.
    

    
    The Corporate Library Group' Corporate Archives located in TAY2 would
    likely love to have this information.  They have a systematic way of 
    storing and retrieving documents as well as other physical items.
    Contact Deb Toivonen at 227-3558.
    

    
    Yes, Craig St. Clair from Corporate Archives came to my office this
    morning and shipped many large boxes shipped to Corporate Archives.  He
    also went in search of things that had already been turned over to
    local curators, to at least catalogue them so they'd know where they
    were, and copy them if they were unique.
    

What might surprise a lot of people is that I've just shipped
what's probably my last PDP11. In May of 1996. $960k worth this
fiscal year. The last design change in the application was done
in 1984...

Did we get our profit out???? (probably)

    You think Anyone in digital would want my PDP 8E.  I need to clean
    the basement.  I was working when I unplugged it about 7-8 years ago.
    I don't have the RK03s or the RK05s disk anymore or the RX01s just
    cpu and box with serial ports and memeory also a few spares.
    
    Fronnie Jones

    should have asked about 6 months ago - I could have used a space
    heater.
    

    It's too bad that the 8E was so compact, you could do what I did with
    my 11/780 - Turn it into a giant toolbox! Great lockable storage that
    fits the decor of my workshop very well!
    
    .mike.

    One of my friends turned an old short cab pdp-11 into a table saw
    stand.
    
    Its nice to see the old stuff gets recycled.
    
    Anyone want on old Eico 5" scope? 

Thought maybe all you history buffs could help me out.  It seems that my father 
has become the proud owner of a MICROVAX II (his motto is if it's a computer it
must be worth having).  He asked me to try to find any and all documentation
that may be lying around for it.  The model is 630QY-A2.  Any one got some old
books about that still hanging around the office?

Thanks,
	JAM

RE: Title:  http://anacin.nsc.vcu.edu/~jim/mvax/mvax_faq.html

If this is a pointer for MVII info, I appreciate it, but I haven't enterred the
PC age either at home or at the office. (sigh!)

Regards,
	JAM

Try lynx.  Runs at the VMS or UNIX command line fetching text, and the
MicroVAX pages are almost entirely text.

___Pete