PDP 11/23 PLUS system for sale

[Allison]

>
>Subject: RE: PDP 11/23 PLUS system for sale
>   From: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com>
>   Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:40:19 -0400
>     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
>>>>>> "Julian" == Julian Wolfe <Wolfe> writes:
>
> Julian> I wasn't aware of this.  Are you interested in the 11/23 box
> Julian> if they are a suitable revision?
>
>Sorry, I should have been clearer.  No, I'm not -- my point was that
>when you're posting information about the hardware, DEQNA rev is a
>pretty significant piece of data.  (That's usual, I think -- typically
>things weren't so badly broken earlier on, and it certainly was quite
>rare for there to be anywhere near that many revisions.  But the DEQNA
>designer was an unusual character, to put it very politely.)
>
>	 paul

Actually depending on OS and general usage the critical factor for 
the DEQNA was not rev but, is it functional at all?  Most of the 
DEQNAs I've touched and used either worked or were dead, rev was a 
minor issue save for certain OS support issues.  One of the REV 
issues was that the more reworked versions tended to have more 
failures (IE plain old dead) resulting from greater amounts of 
handeling and use/abuse.  For Q-bus 11s the DEQNA was an 
acceptable device.  DELQAs while nicer were scarcer.


Allison