Date: 04 Mar 1999 11:26:24 -0500 From: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: Have PDP Message-ID: <5fpv6pqkzz.fsf@singularity.enigami.com> In-Reply-To: Matthew Jacob's message of "Thu, 4 Mar 1999 07:55:31 -0800 (PST)" References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903040747030.29440-100000@feral-gw>
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> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Tom Jackson wrote: > > I picked up a PDP 11/83 at a American Airlines garage sale. It has > > the tape backup (and 2 boxes of tapes) but is missing the hard drives. > > Is there any hope/use or have I acquired a big boat anchor? > > Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> writes: > It's a boat anchor for running a full fledged Unix system, It "full fledged" refers specifically to uni with all the modern gew-gaws and gizmos, sure. While it has been a long time, I could swear that not only was unix *invented* on a PDP system (PDP8, if I recall), 2.9 BSD was written for the PDP 11... +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: <http://www.enigami.com/~ckempf/chipmerchant.html>; Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com <http://www.enigami.com/~ckempf/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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