[rescue] PDP on EBay

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Tue May 29 02:36:29 CDT 2007


On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 12:18:22AM -0600, Robert Darlington wrote:
> Don't know about a pdp/8, but you can see a pdp11/70 up and running in
> full force @ the VLA office here in New Mexico.  I was pretty
> surprised to see a 30 year old system handling signal combining from
> the big radio telescope dishes.  The best computers I saw on their
> desks were a mix of Sun Ultra 1's and some fairly old PCs.

If it ain't broke, why fix it? 8-)  

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas



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