[rescue] Finding antique machines

Carl R. Friend crfriend at rcn.com
Tue Apr 17 15:15:56 CDT 2007


    On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, John Floren wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering: how hard is it to find PDP-11's, VAXen, and similar old
>> hardware these days?
>
> /me looks in his garage.
>
> It's a 30-foot walk for me. :)

    Braggart.  I'll refrain from saying what I can pan my head and
see.  ;-)

    If you're in the Providence, RI area this coming weekend, the
Retro-Computing Society of RI is holding its monthly open house
so you can see some really old iron (the earliest piece being a
Packard Bell 250, a 22-bit serial-architecture machine that uses
delay-line memory), some nice 1970s-vintage minis, 1980s-vintage
VAXen and superminis, and some later workstation-class machines.

    They're at Atlantic Mills on Manton Ave in Providence, room 411.

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