Qbus
Veteran Member
Figure every six months or once a year I will beat the drum about selling off the DEC collection. Not that I am thru with vintage computers but not getting any younger and would consider selling off all the DEC stuff in one huge sweep. It’s a lot of money but you receive a lot of value.
What you receive would be my 11/34 system with two RL drives (RL-01 and 02) in a DEC rack all set up and working with a VT-100 terminal, a 11/23 set up in larger DEC rack with RL drive and CDC 9 track tape drive, several RL disk packs including RT-11 operating system and diagnostics disks, huge amount of documentation and the like.
In addition to this you also receive the contents of the storage building that includes spare card sets for both systems, another spare 11/34 along with three or four RL parts drives, a RX-02 drive that I use to have on the 11/23, at least one other spare 11/23 working card set and a spare DEC rack. Will also throw in a Micro Vax 2 system with a lot of stuff for that.
There are lots of videos that I did with the systems on YouTube, Start with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWnjuLS6jxI
For the 11/23 with the CDC drive and:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a7PeIzesWU
For the 11/34
The DEC hardware is still fun to play with but floor space is at a premium in the workshop and for the right money would be willing to sell off the entire collection at one time. Have no interest in selling things off one by one or with dealing with eBay and all the aggravation of shipping a truck load of stuff.
I am pricing this all for $7,500.00 or maybe less to the right person with the understanding that I will not be shipping all this under any circumstances. But remember that will include time spent with whoever may buy this in demonstrating and trying to explain what’s going on with all the hardware when you purchase it.
I am located just outside of Salisbury Maryland around two hours from Washington/Baltimore maybe four hours from Philadelphia.
What you receive would be my 11/34 system with two RL drives (RL-01 and 02) in a DEC rack all set up and working with a VT-100 terminal, a 11/23 set up in larger DEC rack with RL drive and CDC 9 track tape drive, several RL disk packs including RT-11 operating system and diagnostics disks, huge amount of documentation and the like.
In addition to this you also receive the contents of the storage building that includes spare card sets for both systems, another spare 11/34 along with three or four RL parts drives, a RX-02 drive that I use to have on the 11/23, at least one other spare 11/23 working card set and a spare DEC rack. Will also throw in a Micro Vax 2 system with a lot of stuff for that.
There are lots of videos that I did with the systems on YouTube, Start with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWnjuLS6jxI
For the 11/23 with the CDC drive and:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a7PeIzesWU
For the 11/34
The DEC hardware is still fun to play with but floor space is at a premium in the workshop and for the right money would be willing to sell off the entire collection at one time. Have no interest in selling things off one by one or with dealing with eBay and all the aggravation of shipping a truck load of stuff.
I am pricing this all for $7,500.00 or maybe less to the right person with the understanding that I will not be shipping all this under any circumstances. But remember that will include time spent with whoever may buy this in demonstrating and trying to explain what’s going on with all the hardware when you purchase it.
I am located just outside of Salisbury Maryland around two hours from Washington/Baltimore maybe four hours from Philadelphia.