Rare!

An ad-hoc Video Toaster setup.

Just south of IN-24, which was the road to grandma's many years back. Just over the edge of that wacky staggered time zone.

Left work 15:45, got to Lansing meet-up 17:30. Leaving now in heavy rain for Purdue.

Just sittin’ around in Lansing, waiting to move on.

A few hours of work left (less if I can sneak away) and I’m off to West Lafayette, IN again for VCF Midwest. Won’t be showing any gear this time – no time to prep and I wasn’t even sure I was going until yesterday. But photos and reports from the scene will be filed!

My reward for sitting around all day at the Daley Center juror pool.

Dec half-rack containing Micro PDP-11/73 and TS05 tape drive. On top is a bonus: a DEC VT05 terminal, about 15 years older than the equipment below it. I’m afraid to turn it on, lest it smoke and never live again. The PDP I hope to test out later today.

I just won my first[1] PDP-11 on ebay. It’s a Micro 11/73 in the DEC half-rack with the TS05 9-track tape drive. Great. Another “first-floor only” machine. Where am I going to put this thing? On the other hand, it’s a PDP-11, and that’s pretty cool. Now I have to recruit some help to get it going.

[1] Except for the three Micro-11s I had in my old apartment and gave away because they were heavy. But we won’t talk about that.

All in-box from the original owner. I don’t yet have an external 3.5″ disk (which I should be able to use to read Pro-dos formatted disks written on an old Macintosh,) but I do have one with my //gs. Will it work?