[rescue] Moving (save the VAXen!)

[Stéphane Tsacas]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, St?phane Tsacas wrote:
>
>  On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
>>
>>  On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
>>>
>>>  On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Jim Carpenter wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com>
>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  BTW, there's still stuff to be claimed before it goes to be scrapped
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  including a lot of uVAXen (including a VAX 4000/700 I just unearthed
>>>>> today),
>>>>> uPDP-11s, 11/34s, 11/44s
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Wow, I'm suddenly happy to live nowhere near there.  I'm trying to pare
>>>> down my assemblage, but I _really_ want that VAX 4000/700A and the
>>>> PDP11/44.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I wish I was there to save some of it. :(
>>>
>>> Being in Ohio has its disadvantages...
>>>
>>>
>>>  Talk to me... I'm in Paris... France, want the 11/34 even just some
>> memory
>> board ! :/
>>
>>
>>
> How common is DEC gear over there?  Did you ever have your own clones?
>

It was pretty common since most universities in the 80's had PDP's and
later VAXen. Of course some of them were "forced" to use Bull machines.
DEC clones came from UK, Plessey and another brand (I can't remember the
name of it) manufactured a microcoded AMD-2900 based 11/750.

Almost all of the computers used during this era were destroyed since
the Ministry of National Education had special procedures to get rid of the
old equipment. Most of DEC machines were replaced by Sun servers and
workstations.

Stiphane