Hush, contact me off-list. I have two DEC PDP-11/05's for sale, if
that's of any interest.
On 1/23/2023 4:29 PM, h...@dec.dog via cctalk wrote:
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.hush
Got interesting stuff to sell? Let me know!
Looking for DEC, IBM, CDC, SGI, Data General, and more!
On Monday, Jan 23, 2023 at 4:18 PM, js--- via cctalk<cctalk@classiccmp.org
(mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org)> wrote:
On 1/23/2023 2:28 PM, Chris via cctalk wrote: @ Mike Stein
Not everything is criticism. I only corrected a rather obtuse notion about
people replacing mechanical drives with solid state ones. Everyone would love
to use their original equipment if it was practical. I for 1 have NO luck with
floppy disks. Is it my part of the country? Could be.
Would a few people here be willing to share their approaches to their
collection?
I'll start. I've collected a variety of mainly DEC, HP, and Apple
machines, and have restored or repaired them slowly over time. However,
as they fail from now on, I will *not* be doing modern upgrades or
repairs. As they die, so shall they be retired or given away.
For me, it's the experience of the original sights, sounds, feels, and
yes, emotions of the original hardware that's the inspiration. So,
floppy and tape drives all the way for me, as well as original hard
drives (Mike, I'm right there with you on the IMIs :). Emulators
just don't provide what I'm looking for.
- John
Frederick, Maryland
