[rescue] Computer Collection Dissolution

Tue Dec 16 21:32:00 UTC 2025

If anyone would consider shipping some of this stuff to the stated, I am
interested in the 11/34+RK05. I have no idea about shipping cost but I am
sure it won't be cheap.   I am in the states and can't get there....I must
say you have quite a collection.
J

On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM Jochen Kunz via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
wrote:

> Hello.
>
> So it is happening. Finally. What a relieve. I am giving away my
> (almost) entire classic computer collection. Free of charge (almost).
> But local pickup only due to health reasons. Read: Due to a physical
> disability I am not able to ship any computers.
> Location: Kaiserslautern, Germany.
>
> Almost because I will keep my beloved SPARCstation 1+, my SGI O2 and a
> few spare parts for sentimental reasons. I am still tempted to keep a
> QBus with a LSI11 and MicroVAX III...
>
> Anything else has to go.
>
> I don't wane make a profit out of it. I want the stuff go into good
> hands with absolut minimum effort at my side. As compensation I only ask
> for your help to get rid of some other stuff that has accumulated over
> the years.  (Loads of disk, CDROM and tape drives. Cables, adapters,
> expansion cards, RAM modules, ... and some junk in my basement. More
> cables, 14" VGA monitor, glass-TTY, 19" rack mounts, empty boxes, ...)
> Either you take some of the junk with you, or you help me bring the junk
> to the nearby recycling center. I don't care, as long as the junk is
> gone. I may also request your help to rearrange existing or install new
> furniture in my appartement. (My desk uses the Sun 3/260 as support...)
>
> You want it all? Perfect. Rent a moving truck. Come and get it. You just
> want some pieces? Fine. Come, get what you want and take some junk out
> of the pile. The more nice stuff you take, the more junk you have to
> take. (Sounds worse then it is.)
>
> Almost complete list of stuff available below. Almost all stuff can be
> picked up and transported by a singe, strong person. Only a few pieces
> will require an additional hand, that I can not provide my self due to
> health reasons. Contact me off list with your machines of interest to
> get things arranged.
>
> Rationale:
>
> I haven't done anything with this stuff in 15+ years. After 15 years, I
> am quite confident that this will not change. I tried to get back into
> it in 2010 by acquiring a PDP-11/34A. After a few weeks I lost interest
> and now it is sitting partly disassembled and waiting for repairs. (The
> PSU bricks need new electrolytic capacitors...) Sitting there for 15
> years. Untouched.
>
> I haven't really read any postings to this list in 10+ years. I am
> basically only still subscribed to nag myself to write this email.
>
> For me, my machinery is like books that I have read. I had a lot of fun
> reading those books. I learned a lot out of them. Most important are the
> people that I got to meet via them. Like this very mailing list and the
> legendary VAXpower meetings... :-) But now I know all the books. There
> is nothing new to discover. The books just sit there on shelves,
> collecting dust. It reached a point where all this stuff is getting in
> my way to live a happy live. The collection has become an obligation, a
> burden. Especially as:
>
> At the end of 2009 my back broke and I needed an emergency surgery. Now
> I have to be very careful with lifting and carrying stuff. I don't move
> anything over maybe 6 kg anymore. (That is 13ish pounds for you
> imperialists. ;-) ) This is also the reason why I can not ship anything.
> I am simply not physically able to package the stuff and bring it to the
> post office without risking breaking my back again. And when my back
> brakes again, I may end up in a wheelchair. I escaped that just barely
> when my back broke initially in 2009... Needless to say that this
> physical damage also caused mental issues. I will not take any risk
> breaking my body again.
>
> Also: I live in an old appartement building. My landlord will renovate
> the appartement that I rent in late summer 2026. I may move out of this
> appartement into an other one in spring 2026, so that the appartement is
> uninhabited during renovation. I will not move all of this stuff to a
> new appartement. And if I don't move, I wane get rid of the collection
> anyway. It will ease the renovation process a lot. Anything that is not
> already gone when the renovation starts, respectively on moving day,
> will be recycled. If this means the PDP-11/34A goes into the dumpster to
> be shredded, than it will happen.
>
>
> Machinery:
>
> DEC PDP-11/34A + RK05, optionally in low boy 19" rack.
> Shares a RL02 and a Cypher 9-track Pertec tape drive with the 11/73.
>
> Tektronix 4000-something storage tube vector graphics terminal.
> I think I still have the accompanying Tek printer.
> Originally part of the 11/34A system.
>
> DEC PDP-11/73, the "franken-11"
> I pieced this together over time in a BA23 desk side box. Runs 2.11BSD.
> Has 4 MB RAM, 2 x MSCP ESDI disks (IIRC 150 MB each), TK50, RL02, SMD
> and Pertec adapters. Comes with a 9" 1 GB E-SMD disk. Shares a RL02 and
> a Cypher 9-track Pertec tape drive with the 11/34A.
>
> DEC VAX 4000-300, upgraded to a -400
>
> DEC VAX 4000-200
>
> DEC VT1300
>
> 2 x DEC VAXstation 2000 (At least one has patched ROMs to boot SCSI.)
>
> DEC VAXstation 3100m76
>
> DEC VAXstation 4000 VLC
>
> DEC VAXstation 4000-60
>
> DEC VAXstation 4000-90
>
> DEC MicroVAX 3100-95
>
> DEC DECstation 3100
>
> DEC DECstation 5000-240
>
> DEC AlphaStation 200 4/166
>
> DEC 3000 300x
>
> DEC 3000 600
>
> DEC Alpha PWS 500au
>
> DEC Alpha DS20E (I don't know for sure. It has no model number on the
> front. It looks like a DS20E. I have never, ever even powered up this
> thing.)
>
> Tektronix 8560 Multi-User Software Development Unit
> This is a DEC PDP-11/23 CPU in Tek box. It runs a customized UNIX V7.
>
>
> At my parents place there should still be
> MicroVAX III
> MicroVAX 3500.
> 2 x 9" NEC E-SMD disks, 1 GB
> Tektronix 4000-something text terminal with storage tube.
> Additional logistics will be required if you wane retrieve this stuff.
>
>
> IBM PS/2 Modell 95 XP 486
>
> IBM PS/2 80
>
> IBM RS/6000 43P-140
>
> IBM RS/6000 43P-150
>
> IBM RS/6000 44P-170
>
>
> SGI Indy
>
> SGI Octane, SSE GFX, PCI card cage with SCSI and FDDI cards.
> IIRC 300 MHz R12k and 2 GB RAM. There must be an additional SI or SE
> graphics somewhere. I run this machine dual headed. This was my main
> desktop from 2001 to 2006.
>
> SGI Personal IRIS, probably a 4D/25, I can't remember.
>
> SGI Indigo IIRC R3000
>
> SGI Indigo IIRC R4000
>
> SGI Indigo 2 teal R4000, Extreme GFX
>
> SGI Indigo 2 magenta R10k, Impact GFX
>
> SGI Octane carcass (Empty main box with front plane, no CPU, GFX, ...)
>
> SGI Origin 200
>
>
> Sun 3/60
>
> Sun 3/60 box with Sun 4/600 board inside, -12V hack for console RS232.
>
> Sun 4/110
>
> Sun 3/260
>
> Sun SPARCstation IPX
>
> Sun SPARCstation 2
>
> Sun SPARCstation 5
>
> Sun SPARCstation 10
>
> Sun SPARCstation 20
>
> Sun Ultra 1 creator3D
>
> Sun Ultra 2
>
> Sun Ultra 5 ("franken 5" build from parts into a PC box.)
>
> Sun Ultra 10
>
> Sun Netra X1
>
> Sun Netra T1
>
> Sun Fire V240
>
>
> Apple Macintosh IIci
>
> Apple MacMini G4
>
> Apple PowerMac G5, single 1,8 Ghz.
>
>
> Motorola MVME Type 3200, desktop box, 4 x 6U VME, IIRC MVME162 CPU.
>
>
> Sony NEWS NWS-3410
>
>
> HP Apollo 400 425t
>
> HP 9000 750 (It may be 400s, but IIRC it is a 750.)
>
> HP 9000 B2000
>
>
> Loads of (mostly SCSI) disk, CDROM and tape drives. Cables, adapters,
> expansion cards, RAM modules, hubs, switches, FDDI concentrator, ...
>
> IBM P200 / Sony Trinitron 19" monitor. Does sync on green.
> I used it with my SGIs.
>
> HP LaserJet 4 with JetDirect LAN
> (The VF-Display is dead, but otherwise works.)
>
> 2 x HP Scanjet IIc, one has an Automated Document Feeder.
> Works great with Impresario from SGI IRIX.
>
>
> Test equipment:
>
> Dolch Logic Instruments logic analyzer. IIRC 48 channels @ 300 MHz.
>
> HP Digital Storage Oscilloscope 54710 with 3 x 1 GHz / 2 Msamels/s
> Y-modules.
>
>
> Analog photo gear:
>
> Durst Laborator 1000 4"x5" enlarger, table top version.
>
> --
>
> tschüss,
>         Jochen
>
> --
>
> tschüss,
>         Jochen
>
>
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