[rescue] BEAUTIFUL rescue!!!

[Mike Nicewonger]

That rocks!! This is a real rescue par eccelance!!!!

-Mike N

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, you wrote:
> I dont think Michael will mind me forwarding this.  BEAUTIFUL rescue
> of a DECsystem 1090 by him, Carl Friend (the guy who inspired me to 
> get into collecting), and some other folks at RCS/RI:
> 
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> (from m_thompson at ids.net)
> 
> It was de-installed by DEC in 1994 after it passed a full set of                
> diagnostics. It has been in a climate controlled computer room for the last     
> 7 years. Not a bit of dust on anything. We got the TOPS-10 install tapes,       
> OS updates, DECtapes that boot the 11/40 front end and load microcode,          
> three 11/34 front ends, and a generic MASSbus parallel port device. We also     
> got a LP29, LA120, manuals, note books, documentation, prints, sales            
> brochures...                                                                    
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> All day people showed up, dropped off souveners from the machine, and told      
> us what they did on the machine. There was a large gathering at the truck       
> when we left.                                                                   
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> You don't get that when a PC goes in the dumpster.                              
>                                                                                 
> >> We picked up a complete DEC 1090 at Sikorsky yesterday. 14,000 pounds of     
> >> equipment!                                                                   
> >> http://starfish.rcsri.org/rcs/DECsystem/1090/DECsystem-1090.html             
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> 
> All I can say is, "wow".  I'd LOVE to see pictures of this machine in
> operation once they've got it set up.  I dont think you could get much
> better than this.  Stored since '94 in a HEPA-filtered room.  Wow.
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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