RSX11M+
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Perhaps many of you already know of the closure of the University of Queenland's Computer Museum of I.T.
It is mystifying to me that they not only closed it's doors, and disbanded the machine collection of the museum, but removed it's Web presence as well. How much could it possibly have cost to keep it in memoriam?
Anyway, There is nothing I can do to recover the museum's hardware. It's half a world away, and I can only hope that the PDP-10 and other hardware find their way to a suitable resting place, and not in some reclemation program for chinese steel.
The Website is another matter... after searching my archives I have put together a "Webable mirror" of the site as I last encountered it.
I have made several attempts to contact the university staff in an effort to obtain permission to publish this archive. I will continue this a bit longer before giving up.
In the meantime, I would like to offer to the VCF forum members, access to the files of this archive which contains some 10.9GB of documents in PDF format. It is one of the most impressive document repositories of DEC software [of the period] and hardware information I've encountered.
Please contact me if you would like any of these, and we will make arrangements to exchange them.
Note:
It is mystifying to me that they not only closed it's doors, and disbanded the machine collection of the museum, but removed it's Web presence as well. How much could it possibly have cost to keep it in memoriam?
Anyway, There is nothing I can do to recover the museum's hardware. It's half a world away, and I can only hope that the PDP-10 and other hardware find their way to a suitable resting place, and not in some reclemation program for chinese steel.
The Website is another matter... after searching my archives I have put together a "Webable mirror" of the site as I last encountered it.
I have made several attempts to contact the university staff in an effort to obtain permission to publish this archive. I will continue this a bit longer before giving up.
In the meantime, I would like to offer to the VCF forum members, access to the files of this archive which contains some 10.9GB of documents in PDF format. It is one of the most impressive document repositories of DEC software [of the period] and hardware information I've encountered.
Please contact me if you would like any of these, and we will make arrangements to exchange them.
Note:
The archive contains very few of the TIFF documents listed, and most of the PDF files.
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