From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gregg.drwho8@gmail.com (Gregg Levine) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 10:15:26 -0400 Subject: [pups] Suitable PDP11s, in the UK In-Reply-To: References: <200711022334.39669.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> Message-ID: <18d205ed0711020715t12c7091awac6649f4efd2db0a@mail.gmail.com> On 11/2/07, Tim Bradshaw wrote: > On 2 Nov 2007, at 10:34, Wesley Parish wrote: > > > I'm thinking this would be the way to solve this sort of problem in > > one fell > > swoop, if as I suspect is likely, it is impossible to find a > > working and > > available PDP-11 in the UK. > > It's a cool idea, but I think it depends. That would be a bit like > making a vintage car. People do that (even without the intention to > fake them - there are, I think, many more type 35 Bugattis in > existence than were ever made), but sometimes you want a vintage car, > or computer, because it's vintage. > > --tim (owner of a vintage car, but also owner of an electronic enigma > replica...) Hello! There is just such a textbook, I've read it. However as luck would have it today I can not remember its title. It might be the one that MSResearch remembers, but its unlikely at best. -- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the Moscow subway."