A friend has a PDP-11/40 for sale in New Zealand and sent me the
following information:
"I have a PDP11/40 for sale. It includes three (3) x RK05’s in various
states of repair, one (1) tape unit, one (1) A/D unit, spare parts of
unknown status, lots of disk packs, tapes and what looks like all of the
circuit diagrams for every card and peripheral in the machine, plus
RSK-11 manuals, some cobol manuals etc.
It was formerly used in the Wellington Hospital diagnostic lab,
presumably hooked up to some Lab machines there.
Note that it is 230v 50hz, so while the CPU may be easily changed to
your local voltage (I don’t know but I suspect it’s a transformer tap)
the disk spindles are likely to rotate at the incorrect speed if they
are clocked off the 50hz mains frequency.
The racks have been split to make it easy(er) to get out of the its
original location in a basement, and there is tape on the panels just
for shipping purposes. I removed the front panel for shipping to
prevent any damage, so it’s just installed temporarily for the photos.
They will be wrap separately in place in a box for shipping.
You can check out photo’s here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fcldk7rekg6sbq3/AADeCjVHhz2YNr1CVxZK5JKZa?dl=0
This system will take time and patience to restore. As far as I can
tell everything is there, well maybe some of the disks have been ratted
for parts to get another disk working, but of course it comes with no
guarantees of any kind.
There are 8 cards in the CPU slots, plus five other cards that I assumed
to be tape controller, disk controller, A/D controller, plus memory x 2
or memory x 1 plus something else.
Keep in mind that all of the manuals, disk packs, tapes etc are boxed up
on a second pallet so there are two pallets for shipment."
Contact Brendan McNeill, Christchurch, New Zealand. at bren...@mcneill.co.nz
(I have no financial or other interest in this system, but would like to
see it go to a good home...)
Bruce
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Bruce Ray
Wild Hare Computer Systems, Inc.
Denver, Colorado USA
b...@wildharecomputers.com
...preserving the Data General legacy: www.NovasAreForever.org
