From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 13:38:54 +0000 Subject: [pups] Suitable PDP11s, in the UK In-Reply-To: <200711022334.39669.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> References: <200711022334.39669.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> Message-ID: 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...)