Nekonomicon - The threat of new hardware

Pontus
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Wrote the following at May 4, 2010, 12:23 a.m...

This will be a bit of a rant, sorry in advance.

Normally I love to get new hardware, but that love has filled up my apartment and storage

So I've promised my fiancée not to get more stuff unless I get rid of stuff beforehand.

And today I got the offer of four (!) half height DEC racks populated with two PDP-11/44 and accompanying RK07 disks! It felt almost like a threat

Oh well.. I think I'll give away two Macintoshes and take the two 11/44 CPU boxes and throw the rest away (which I hate).

Soo, anyone in Sweden who wants a 20 something megabytes of refrigerator sized storage?

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deBug
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Wrote the following at May 4, 2010, 1:57 p.m...

Pontus wrote:

This will be a bit of a rant, sorry in advance.

Normally I love to get new hardware, but that love has filled up my apartment and storage

So I've promised my fiancée not to get more stuff unless I get rid of stuff beforehand.

And today I got the offer of four (!) half height DEC racks populated with two PDP-11/44 and accompanying RK07 disks! It felt almost like a threat

Oh well.. I think I'll give away two Macintoshes and take the two 11/44 CPU boxes and throw the rest away (which I hate).

Soo, anyone in Sweden who wants a 20 something megabytes of refrigerator sized storage?

So what stuff do we need to take off your hands

?

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Pontus
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Wrote the following at May 4, 2010, 11:34 p.m...

How about a DECstation? an Indy or two? A Mac SE?

I actually have a few people coming over to pick stuff up, when that is done I can make a more detailed list of what is left and that I can give away for anyone who wants to pay me a visit

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mila
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Wrote the following at May 5, 2010, 12:47 a.m...

Nice I am pretty close to you we should meet!

Its been while since I had a 11/44(first I had a 11/35 very good looking), three racks with 6 rk05 and a 200MB DEC driveI forgot the name of and a tape, that was hot in a two room apartment

Also had some 5-6 DEC VT102 to try out multiuser on BSD 2.11 talking from room to room

Girls are a problem for collectors (:

BTW, what will you run on the 11/44, RT11 SJ monitor to save RAM(3kb for the whole OS)?

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Pontus
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Wrote the following at May 5, 2010, 1:02 a.m...

mila wrote:

Nice I am pretty close to you we should meet!

Absolutely, just send me PM! I'll give you a tour of the Update computer clubs collection too (so you can get a look at our 11/70 and feel nostalgic)

mila wrote:

Its been while since I had a 11/44(first I had a 11/35 very good looking), three racks with 6 rk05 and a 200MB DEC driveI forgot the name of and a tape, that was hot in a two room apartment

The 11/35 is indeed a looker, it's your avatar right?

mila wrote:

Girls are a problem for collectors (:

Well, for some. My fiancée has been very forthcoming, and the promise to not get more stuff was equally made to myself.

mila wrote:

BTW, what will you run on the 11/44, RT11 SJ monitor to save RAM(3kb for the whole OS)?

Not sure, they are in a quite poor shape at the moment, I think I'll go with RSX if I can.

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