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he...@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Henk P. Penning) and
pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch)
writes about retiring old computers to museums rather scrapping them.

Here in Stockholm, STACKEN, the computer club at the Royal Institute
of Technology, has collected, restored, and re-installed old computers
for many years now. We specialize in old DEC computers, mostly DEC-10s
and DEC-20s. The last time I looked into our CCCC (Colossal Cave
Computing Center) there was:

MIT-AI:	DEC-1080	(down)  The DEC-10 from the MIT AI lab
KLEO:	DEC-1091	(down)  A KL-E CPU
ODEN:	DEC-1099	(down)  2-CPU KL-10 SMP
KISTA:	DEC-10		Top-10, 2-CPU KI-10 SMP (will get 3 CPU's)
	DEC-2020	(down), for running ITS
FREJA:	DEC-2060	Twenex, for Twenex fans
ALEX:	VAX-11/780	4.2BSD, Unix machine for TCP/IP, Usenet, Mail...
HELENA:	PDP-11/34	(down), for RSTS/E fans
ELVIRA:	PDP-11/45	(down), for RSTS/E fans
	PDP-11/23	RSTS/E, real-time control of the cooling machines

The above info is somewhat sketchy and about a moth old. Disks: about
20 RP06 and 7 RP07. And we have tons and tons of other computers. E.g.
two Lambda from LMI (Lisp Machines, Inc), one PDP-9, one PDP-15, one
PDP-12 and countless PDP-11s, some of which are to be used as
front-ends to the DECsystem-10's and DECSYSTEM-20's.

We have a large computer room, which we have build ourselves. Floor
space and power (don't ask) couresy of the Royal Institute of
Technology. It is imperative to create good relations with the local
univeristy, computer center or whatever. If you

As you can see, we specialize in old DEC computers. What we most hotly
want is a PDP-6. Not a lot of them were built, but it's a historically
significant architecture. "The most wonderful known to man", as the
fans have it. (Hi there, MRC!)

If you know where to find a PDP-6, or have equipment (ANY equipment!!)
to be thrown away, contact Stacken at the address below, or
start/contact a local computer club. Saving these machines is more
than like restoring old warbirds or steam locomotives; it's fun,
educational, and these machines are the pioneers of the information
age.


Send money, equipment, membership requests etc to

	Stacken
	c/o NADA, KTH
	10044, Stockholm
	Sweden

KEEP'EM UP AND RUNNING!


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Per Lindberg (The Mad Programmer)   !      __!__
Front Capital Systems, Box 5727,    !  _____(_)_____  Ceci n'est pas une Piper
11487 Stockholm, Sweden. 8-6611510  !     !  !  !