[rescue] Moving (save the VAXen!)

[Toby Thain]

On 15/10/13 8:26 PM, Stiphane Tsacas wrote:
> 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

I own a Plessey PDP-11 clone (sold in Australia).

> 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.

Noting that in the UK, Sun was also cloned; I own an ICL SPARCstation 
clone (again sold in Australia, but it's a UK brand afaik).

--Toby


>
> Stiphane
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