[HECnet] pdp-11/VAX racks and chassis free to good home

Tue Jan 2 18:29:53 PST 2018

I wish you could. ☺ Hand luggage!

Amusingly, this would’ve been around 2001 and I was in W.A which had a lot of mining and exploration around then and hardware dumped on the local Ross’s Auctions in Maylands. Myself and some old Uni buddies bought a 1.5m high plastic wrapped pallet of SGI Octanes (mostly 1.3 and a few 1.2 xbow’s) and we stripped them all, divvied up the parts and made a couple of extremely good machines each and traded parts on the uni notice boards with some other enthusiasts. All of this for a few hundred dollars – bargain. Another mate from that group was living in Melbourne and came to visit. He saw the three Octanes I had and and desperately wanted an octane. I’ll not so anonymously call this mate “Mick”. So I offered him one if he could organise his own shipping, to which he very readily agreed given he was a passionate Indy user.

Crazy enthusiastic and he had no time left to organise it properly and flew Qantas back to Melbourne (4.5-5hr flight) with the thing on his lap with a pillow underneath. He was definitely keen as all get-out. Lucky no DVT or something.

I often think of Mick and his Octane as being the most serious hand-luggage I’ve ever seen. Sadly he’s not into SGI Mips gear any longer.

Al.

From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Tomas Prybil
Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2018 8:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [HECnet] pdp-11/VAX racks and chassis free to good home

Great piece.
I’m in Australia on vacation and would have loved to put the machine as handluggage on my returntrip…..

/t
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Cute! So many options!

Al.

From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE<mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Mark J. Blair
Sent: Tuesday, 2 January 2018 4:18 PM
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On Jan 1, 2018, at 20:29, Boyanich, Alastair <Alastair.Boyanich at au.fujitsu.com<mailto:Alastair.Boyanich at au.fujitsu.com>> wrote:

Second rack is a little knee high one that the 11v03 (Yep it’s v03 not /03) came in. Faux wood
and round bubble wheels.

Interesting! I have an 11V03-L system, but the little rack it came in is styled like the larger ones with rounded corners and dark side panels:

http://www.nf6x.net/2014/03/data-general-nova-3-and-dec-pdp-11v03-l/img_0854/

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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net<mailto:nf6x at nf6x.net>>
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