old DEC gear wanted

[Zane H. Healy]

At 1:27 AM -0500 11/10/06, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
>This is all hobbyist of course (I doubt any PDP8 class gear is still
>in production...

Don't be, they're still around in industrial settings.  They just 
keep working so why spend the money to replace them.

>but I wouldn't be surprised if a few PDP11s are
>still doing some oddball stuff out there).

They're still around in various settings, industrial, scientific, 
business, etc.   They're used for such things as electron 
microscopes, spectrum analyzers, controlling parts of nuclear plants, 
etc., PDP-11's are still big business.  In some cases it's because 
they're still working, why spend the money to replace, in others it 
would simply cost more to replace than it does to keep them running 
(typically places where qualifying new HW/SW can cost insane amounts 
of money).

		Zane



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