Options, options, options... DEC was was good at options.
-- Will On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-08-09 18:14, William Donzelli wrote: >> >> The pedestal RX02s are around, but pretty rare. I think they were part >> of a PDP-8 based word processor (VT78?), and/or part of the smaller >> PDT11 systems. > > > You can easily google pictures of the VT78, and it has the same two RX01 (or > if it is RX02) side by side as you could expect elsewhere. > > The PDT-11/150 at least have drives that resembles the ones on ebay, but the > cabinet is different (if you can even say the PDT-11/150 have a cabinet). > > No, the ebay listing is still a weird beast, to say the least. > > Johnny > > >> >> -- >> Will >> >> On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 2015-08-09 17:48, Ben Sinclair wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> I found this on eBay, and I'm not sure what it is: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-DIGITAL-RX02-COMPUTER-SYSTEM-2-FLOPPY-DRIVES-UNTESTED-T27-/181827282211?hash=item2a55c02523 >>>> >>>> I haven't seen RX-02s in a case like this before, and some Googling >>>> doesn't seem to reveal much of anything. >>>> >>>> Does anyone know what this is exactly? >>> >>> >>> >>> That is definitely not an RX02 in the common sense of the word. >>> I would like to see a picture where you can see that Digital sticker in a >>> larger context, so I can see that it really sits on that cabinet. >>> >>> The whole cabinet do not even look in the style of DEC cabinets. Very >>> strange beast. But who knows. DEC might have built some off one-off or >>> something for a special purpose or customer. >>> >>> (Not to mention that RX02 is not a computer to start with...) >>> >>> Johnny >>> >>> -- >>> Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus >>> || on a psychedelic trip >>> email: [email protected] || Reading murder books >>> pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol > > > > -- > Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus > || on a psychedelic trip > email: [email protected] || Reading murder books > pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
