[TUHS] Do you have any historical UNIX computers?

[Vicente Collares via TUHS]

Hello Noel,

On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 16:39:52 -0400 (EDT)
Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

> If that's your interest, PDP-11's are absolutely _the_ way to go. The PDP-11
> is _the_ machine that made UNIX. That choice has good points, and a very bad
> point, though.

Buying a PDP-11 has for a long time been a dream of mine. To start my 
collection of historical computers however I think I'm going get a UNIX 
workstation.
  > Good points are that QBUS PDP-11's are pretty easy to find, pretty small
> (desktop PC-sized), and not very expensive. They're pretty robust, too - I
> have a large stack of PDP-11 QBUS CPUs, and none of them had failed, as of the
> last time that I powered them on.

Good to know. I was under the impression that all PDP-11s where hard to 
find, expensive and often required advanced tinkering to get working. 
I'll definitely will be looking into these Q-BUS computers. Thanks!

> Does anyone know if anyone is making a QBUS mass storage clone? Bridgham and
> I were going to produce QBUS RK11/RP11 clone that used SD cards to hold the
> bits. We got the prototype working, and it booted UNIX, but then I came down
> with COVID and post-COVID myalgic encephalomyelitis, and that was the end of
> that.
I am sorry to hear that you had to deal with those health problems and I 
sincerely hope you are now doing better.

Cheers,

Vicente
vicente at collares.ca