[rescue] FA: PDP11 Qbus cards CPU and Memory

[Dave McGuire]

  I'm sorry Chad, as much as I'd like to get my hands on it, I won't bid
on your stuff because Sridhar wants it.

  And I'll stop flaming Greg when he stops being an asshole...which is
to say, when I can flap my arms and fly to the moon.

       -Dave

On March 26, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> Greg and Dave,
> 
> Why don't you nice boys have a bidding war instead of a flame war :-)
> 
> Chad
> 
> "Greg A. Woods" wrote:
> > 
> > [ On Monday, March 25, 2002 at 04:01:36 (-0500), Dave McGuire wrote: ]
> > > Subject: Re: [rescue] FA: PDP11 Qbus cards CPU and Memory
> > >
> > >   Oh, come on Greg.  I've got one sitting in storage, a first-run 11/03.
> > > It doesn't say "LSI" on the front.  Indeed, I have three other
> > > PDP-11/03 systems, and NONE of them say "LSI-11" on the front.
> > > Neither do my PDP-11/23 systems, nor does the PDP-11/23 PLUS.
> > > "LSI-11" is a processor, not a system.  Some PDP-11 systems are built
> > > around LSI-11 processors.
> > 
> > Dave, you are not an authority on all things DEC any more than I am.
> > 
> > You're showing off your USA-centric pig-headed superiority complex, big
> > time.
> > 
> > Just because you didn't have an LSI-11 "badged" SYSTEM, doesn't mean
> > nobody ever did.  Certainly the one I had was no figment of my
> > imagination!  Remember that we live in different countries.  DEC had
> > large manufacturing facilities in Canada (and the same goes for other
> > counties on the other side of the pond).  Not everything we had here was
> > derived from, shipped to, or marketed in the same way, as it was down
> > south of our border.
> > 
> > > > Ah, yes, on that point you're absolutely right --  the Professional 300
> > > > series used the "CTI-bus"
> > 
> > (not to be confused with the modern H.100 Computer Telephony Integration
> > bus, of course)
> > 
> > >   Ahh, finally a name for that bus!
> > 
> > You bought and sold and used them and never knew the name for the bus!?!?!?
> > 
> > something there is unbelievable.....
> > 
> > >   Fucking idiot.
> > 
> > likewise, I'm sure.
> > 
> > If I'm "argumentative and adversarial", what the hell do you call
> > someone like you who's ever so much more of the same, but with a
> > distinctly agressive and emotionally driven bent to the extent that I
> > don't think I've ever observed you in an argument where you haven't
> > resorted quite quickly to ad hominem attacks.  Just like this one.
> > 
> > --
> >                                                                 Greg A. Woods
> > 
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> -- 
> Chad Fernandez
> Michigan, USA
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-- 
Dave McGuire                    "...it's leaving me this unpleasant,
St. Petersburg, FL                 damp feeling on my shorts..." -Sridhar