From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 5 14:50:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73E815296 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:49:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA16495; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 09:19:16 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA08923; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 09:18:06 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990306091805.Z490@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 09:18:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Cory Kempf , mjacob@feral.com Cc: Tom Jackson , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have PDP References: <5fpv6pqkzz.fsf@singularity.enigami.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <5fpv6pqkzz.fsf@singularity.enigami.com>; from Cory Kempf on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 11:26:24AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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