From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:57:17 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] 11/40E and 11/60 (was: speaking of early C compilers) In-Reply-To: <544FD684.6090001@update.uu.se> References: <544FD684.6090001@update.uu.se> Message-ID: <873F0C73-0DD5-4138-9B23-DC060DCAE20D@ronnatalie.com> > > I picked up four 11/60 machines from a place in the late 80s. I still have a complete set of CPU cards, but threw the last machine away about 10 years ago. Chuckle. My wife would kill me. I finally got rid of the ASR-37 (you know a real UNIX teletype complete with a big NEWLINE key and able to interpret those ESC-8 and ESC-9 things that nroff outputs by default) decades ago (RS tells me he left it blocking someone's car in at Sprint or something, I disavow all knowledge of it). While at BRL I was the king of the surplus PDP-11. Any time a PDP-11 came up surplus I recycled it into internet routers. Sometimes I took the older machines for either their RK05 or RL02 drives, or just the racks. I got a call up from surplus people asking me about this $100,000 worth of computer equipment I had turned in and needed to come over and identify. What $100,000 worth of computer equipment? It says here "One PDP-11/40 and accessories." That thing is 16 years old. That's the price the government paid for it then. Do you know how much a 16 year old computer is worth? (especially one that had been stripped of just about everything but the CPU box itself).