[HECnet] Humour - Unix Haters Guide now up on CHIMPY:: !

[Dave McGuire]

On 10/03/2013 10:35 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Yeah I may. I don't really have much o a place for it. A year or two
ago I was walking around through old datacenters on site and found
much of a buried 11/780. I wiped off the broken flourscent bulbs that
were laying on top of it, petted it in a joking amber (well, mostly
jokingly) and left the room. Not sure if it was scrapped or is still
there.

Yow.

Go check.   I'll show up with a truck.   (assuming you're in the USA)

Anyhow I did cart off a micro pdp 11/87 (?!?) that looked like it had
never been powered on (racked with about 20 others). Got a gate pass
for it but never brought it home hoping id soon be able to find a pdp
/ Vax implementation on FPGA soon and forgo the storage and power
(fire hazard?!?).

Fire hazard??

And I assume you mean 11/83.   But that's a very small, relatively
low-power-consumption machine.   Go grab it!

If it's low-power like a VS4000/60 grab me one too!   You said you found
several! ;)

  It's not quite THAT low power, but it's close.   Probably less than
3x...i.e., nothing to worry about.   Mine pulls something like 275W.

                              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA