Well I am still holding out hope to find a vax 780 and get it running. I did not think i would ever be able to find a pdp 11 , but one crossed my path and i managed to pick it up. Perhaps one will still show up around here somewhere. In the meantime ive been trying to stockpile parts for the one day i do manage to find one and it need a board. On Jun 10, 2016 6:03 AM, "Noel Chiappa" <j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> > From: Devin Davison > > > It looked like a good batch of boards and i was holding out on > finding > > a machine. > > I hope that "a machine" wasn't 'an empty machine to plug them into' - > because > AFAICT the chances are that happening are basically zero. (People seem to > save either i) complete machines, or ii) just the boards - apparently not > realizing that without the backplane, etc, the boards are only useful as > spares.) > > > Any good place to get a 11/780 aside from watching the local scrap > > centers with my fingers crossed one will be there? > > For some reasons, /780's seem to be pretty rare. I suspect it's a case of > 'they were mostly all scrapped long ago in favour of later models which > were > faster and smaller' (we see the same thing in other lines). > > > Don't get me wrong, I truly do fervently hope that you do find one somehow, > but one has to be realistic, I think. (I'd love to have an RF11, but I'm > pretty sure they almost all went to the big scrap-heap in the sky many > moons > ago; so I'm not holding on, waiting for one to appear - rather, I'm getting > on with the stuff that _is_ still here.) Sorry to be such a downer... :-( > > Noel >
