Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:12:36 -0600 From: tom@geotec.net (Tom Jackson) To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com>, mjacob@feral.com, Tom Jackson <tom@geotec.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have PDP Message-ID: <19990318101236.A11872@peeper.TOJ.org> In-Reply-To: <19990306091805.Z490@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 09:18:05AM %2B1030 References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903040747030.29440-100000@feral-gw> <5fpv6pqkzz.fsf@singularity.enigami.com> <19990306091805.Z490@lemis.com>
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Been real scattered lately but appreciate the responses to my question. Will more closely check out this treasure later. Most definitely *will not* be dropping the unit from a high elevation, as Mike suggest :). I'll answer questions about it when I get the time and will contact the group Greg mentioned. Later, On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 09:18:05AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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 -- Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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