[rescue] Death of a PDP-11/Clueless office people...

[Dan Sikorski]

Don't get me wrong here.  I fully agree that Dave should have drove the
unimog out here and loaded it up, but, realistically, even if we pooled
money on the list I don't think we could have scraped up ten grand.  I
KNOW that they would have loved to get rid of it in one piece. (i saved
my nCUBE from demise by wanting to buy it whole, a guy there was
scrapping it for wall decorations).  But, sadly, purdue was interested
in money out of it, not the preservation of the machine, as if that was
their concern, they wouldn't have taken it out of service to begin with.

	-Dan Sikorski

On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 00:52, Mike Hebel wrote:
> DS> On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 15:09, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >>   Yeah, I heard about that machine.  I nearly cried.  A Cyber205 is
> >> an ENORMOUS machine though, and much harder to rescue than pretty much
> >> any PDP11.
> 
> DS> Don't cry too hard.... they paid $10,000 for the beast, and got double
> DS> that outta the scrap.
> 
> That is _not_ the point.  Any old machine should at least have one
> chance of being rescued.  I'm _still_ considering a rescue attempt on
> the PDP-11 even though it might cost my wife her job.  No machine
> should die that way.  Engineers, programmers, system analysts, they
> all put a part of themselves into every system they run.  Call me crazy
> but I'm sure some system or network somewhere has a part of me in it.
> I like to think that makes the world a slightly nicer and more
> interesting place to live in. ;-)
> 
> That, in part, is why Dave M was about to send his "food money" to
> rescue a large amount of hardware, why Bill's garage fills up, and why
> this list even exists.
> 
> DS>   (i talked to the guy who scrapped it, and have
> DS> 3rd round dibs on the metal plate signed by the engineers who made the
> DS> beast) Honestly, i don't think i'd pay $10k for it.  and they even had
> DS> higher offers (about $20k i heard)
> 
> They should have allowed _someone_ to give it a good home.
> 
> Even more OT - Do you think a mini system with a little of Dave M in it
> would generate strange smells and lust after newer PCs?  Just a thought.
> *grin*
> 
> Mike                         mailto:nimitz at owc.net
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