From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Mar 4 8:26:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from singularity.enigami.com (singularity.enigami.com [208.140.182.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5D114FC8 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 08:26:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ckempf@singularity.enigami.com) Received: (from ckempf@localhost) by singularity.enigami.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA21666; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:26:24 -0500 (EST) To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Tom Jackson , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have PDP References: Cc: From: Cory Kempf Date: 04 Mar 1999 11:26:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: Matthew Jacob's message of "Thu, 4 Mar 1999 07:55:31 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: <5fpv6pqkzz.fsf@singularity.enigami.com> Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 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: Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message