Re: Selectronics

[Aron Insinga <ainsinga@infomation.com>]

Yeah, Gary, it was Ron Minnich who drove to Selectronics and said that it
looked like the same dog in the parking lot as the last time he was there.
There was a bit of a dash to get from the van and into the building,
through the smell.  (I hope nobody's reading this thread during lunch! :-)
I think I could pass on a visit there this August.  Unless...  Do I need to
say that if anybody sees an ad for a PDP-11 or PDP-8 for sale, I doubt that
anybody on this list would mind hearing of it?  I passed up on a 5-channel
paper tape TTY and then narrowly missed getting the PDP-11+ASR-33 from
someone who lives on the same street a while back. :-(

Remember American Used Computer (a/k/a American Abused Computer)?  I think
that they sent the wrong flavor of FPP for one of the PDP-11s on campus.  I
visited their place in Boston (Kenmore Square) a couple of times, where I
got some plastic front panels from a few DEC machines, and the aluminum
light panel from the I/O cabinet of a PDP-7, and the -7's TTY interface,
and some other DECjunk.  It was far cleaner than Selectronics was.  It was
a byproduct of their real business of selling working systems.  I think
(but I'm not very sure) that's where DELTA's 11/20 finally went off to; it
was on the first floor of DuPont hall by the back door for a short while,
where we could say our fond good-byes to it.  *snif*  (:-)

- Aron