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The Heathkit  PDPD-11!   YES!  We have one on the shelf  here ...
 
This  unit was  called the  H-11  and  was a   DEC- PDP- 11/03 in a heath  
case. The  disc drives though were  something of  Heathkit's choosing though 
and  were not RX01s.  Op-sys  was  RT-11. We have  the  page out of the 
Heathkit  catalog to display with it  but wonder if there  are any other  
brochures  for it that are colorful or posters that  either can be  gotten or  
scans of  them gotten to dress this   display up  a bit.  
(we also have the H-8  and h-89 also!)
 
We are also looking  for the  standalone Heathkit  CRT  terminal  also. 
 
Jim  did  you  save any    DEC  stuff  from the  R&D   days at  DEC?
 
Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  
 
 
In a message dated 1/14/2014 7:14:28 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
w0eb at cox.net writes:

Interesting!  During my 20 year Army career, back in  1968-1969, I once had 
a part time job working for DEC, assembling PDP-8  computers .  Through 
trying to make my job easier, I wound up running  afoul of DEC's assembly 
policies and getting promoted to their R & D  Engineering lab as one of the only 
two part-time engineering techs they had  ever hired.  The other guy (also 
an Army Electronics instructor as I was)  and I got handed the PDP-11 
project.   We built the prototype of the  11.  Wound up getting sent to Viet Nam 
and by the time I got back from  there, I didn't get a chance to go back & 
work for DEC so until I wound up  on another huge computer project for the Army 
in 1976 a lot of that technology  got WAY ahead of me.  Fun days though.  
Actually owned a PDP-11 for  a while when Heathkit offered them in kit form.

Jim - W0EB
Park  City, KS

> dmm at lemur.com writes:
>
>> Mostly because  if I didn't do it now I'd never do it, I've
>> integrated
>>  three of those four Parkersburg WV newspaper phototypesetting /
>>  PDP-8
>> photographs into more permanent web  treatments.
>>

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