Good evening Jochen, I’ve got a few friends who are interested in some of your items but they are not on this list. Do you have details that I could pass on to them.
Many thanks Jake > On 16 Dec 2025, at 21:21, Jochen Kunz via cctalk <[email protected]> > 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 >
