Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 09:18:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com>, mjacob@feral.com Cc: Tom Jackson <tom@geotec.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have PDP Message-ID: <19990306091805.Z490@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <5fpv6pqkzz.fsf@singularity.enigami.com>; from Cory Kempf on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 11:26:24AM -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903040747030.29440-100000@feral-gw> <5fpv6pqkzz.fsf@singularity.enigami.com>
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On Thursday, 4 March 1999 at 11:26:24 -0500, Cory Kempf wrote: > >> 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), PDP-7. UNIX never ran on the PDP-8. > and the 2.9 BSD was written for the PDP 11... All versions of UNIX from the First Edition (1970) until the Seventh Edition (1978) and 2.11BSD (still being developed) were written for the PDP-11. You want to contact the PDP UNIX Preservation Society. Check out http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/PUPS/. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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