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Thread: Re: PDP-11/70 in Yates Center, KS




Re: PDP-11/70 in Yates Center, KS
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2007-01-29 17:42:55
> Jim Willing was one of the pioneers in this computer
collecting hobby
> (I apply pioneers to those of us that were doing this
seriously over
> ten years ago - before this list, and before there even
was a hobby).
> He was an engineer in Portland (I think - the US
Northwest anyway),

He was just outside Portland.

> but gave it up to restore and run an old time bowling
alley - in Yates
> Center, KS. Yates Center is quite small.
> 
> >From the pictures, there is quite a collection of
DEC things, other
> than the two for sale. I think it would be extremely
unlikely that two
> PDP-11/70s (and TU-56s in a another auction) were in
Yates Center.

It must be Jim, the picture is identical to this one.
http:
//www.rdrop.com/~jimw/jcgm-min.shtml#Minis

Hmmm, this means it should be possible to get email to him
via eBay at
least.

Zane


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