[HECnet] If I had the spare room for it...

[Dave McGuire]

On 04/28/2015 05:57 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>>    I'd buy this in a flash....
>>
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-DEC-DIGITAL-PDP-11-70-16-BIT-MINI-COMPUTER-TE16-EA-MAG-TAPE-DRIVE-/331537471267?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d312c5723
> 
> I started drooling when I saw that listed.  There are only 3 things
> keeping me from getting it.  Money, space and power. ;)  I've already
> got two racks in my basement. I don't think I could fit two more plus
> some sort of disk without domestic trouble starting.  Plus the house
> doesn't have 3-phase power and, although I haven't checked, I'm sure
> this baby would like that.  I guess I'll have to be happy with Simh-11.

  There's nothing in that system that requires three-phase power; it all
runs on 110V.  That is, for sharp-eyed viewers, a three-phase power
controller in the bottom of the rack, but all it does is split it down
into three independent 110V rails.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA