[Milsurplus] Buying in Canada

[Gary Pewitt]

Ray and Mike, I was given a PDP-8 quite a few years ago.  It had an 8K 
"core " memory and was used for industrial machinery control.  I played 
around with it for a while when I was in my antique computer phase.  I 
eventually gave it to a friend who absolutely refused to use any 
computer more advanced than a  CP/M machine.  He used it with a Mod 28 
teletype for a terminal.  At that time I had several Chromemco Z80 rack 
mount computers with S100 bus racks.  They were also given to me by an 
ex dealer and were unsold stock.  I also got a Chromemco Chromix machine 
(Chromix was their version of Unix) with an 80 Meg hard drive and color 
monitor that would have cost well over $80,000.00.  The hard drive 
weighed about 45 lbs.
Alas they are all gone.  I still have my original Exidy Sorcerer with 
48K of ram and three 600K floppies.  How things have changed. :-)
73  Gary  N9ZSV




On 4/1/2011 12:03 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
> Ray wrote:
>
>> Was talking with someone about buying a old PDP-11 computer system...
>
> The DEC PDP-11 series was a system that I dreamed (but not seriously)
> about owning 40 years ago.  One of my labs at Ga. Tech in 1972 used
> that system.  There were many variations possible, but IIRC the one
> I would have liked was something like $20,000 1972 dollars ($100,000
> today).
>
> I still wouldn't mind coming across an old 1977 Heath H-11 system with
> floating point capability.  It was functionally a PDP-11/40 in a much
> smaller (and at "only" $1300 for the basic CPU, cheaper) package than
> most DEC PDP-11 configurations.  Who could ever use up all of the 32K
> of 16-bit RAM and 256K 8-inch floppy storage that a complete H-11 system
> offered?
>
> Good luck!
>
> Mike / KK5F
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