I've finally gone and done it:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150256074674

Don't really want to, but if a deep-pocket collector decides to bite, it's gone.

Mike

Mike Ross skrev:

Hmm, that isn't a -2065, is it? It's blue... Shouldn't that be something like a
-1099 or whatever they were called then?

Johnny

On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:00:43 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:

Johnny,

Read my webpage:

http://www.corestore.org/DEC2065.htm

There's an interesting story as to why it's blue... if you scrape off the blue,
it's orange beneath :-)

Mike Ross skrev:

In article , Johnny Billquist writes:

We had a 2050 and a 2060 both in blue cabinets. To my knowledge
those two were never orange.

Bob Koehler skrev:

Weird. I was pretty sure that blue cabinets meant it was -10xx where xx were
some high number.

We still have two KL10s at Update. Both are -2060s, and both are orange.
Stacken, at KTH in Stockholm, have a bunch of blue KL10s. All are DECsystem-10
machine. There are (were?) also a few orange ones, and those were DECSYSTEM-20
machines.

But maybe my sample still was too small to actually tell. I would guess the
total number of KL machines I've inspected are no more than 10.

Hmm, come to think of it. Do anyone know if all KS machines were orange, or did
they also come in two colors?

Johnny

In article eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:

As I recall, I was at a VMS SIG presentation by someone high up
in VMS management (the VP?), we he joked "and we'll port VMS
to those 36 bit machines just as soon as they paint them blue",
or words to that affect.

I was tempted to step up at the Q&A and offer to load VMS on my
blue -20's just as soon as he finished the port.

I think later PDP-10 line was just put into whatever cabinet DEC
had handy, but most were sold in orange prior to the first ship of
blue VAXen.

And now I have to move a rack with no DEC equipment inside, but a
familiar purple panel on top.

Johnny Billquist wrote:

I'm pretty sure that the ADP On-site KS were some sort of brown.

On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:15:47 -0400, Pat Farrell pfarrell.com> wrote:

I'm pretty sure I've heard the same.

Wasn't Barb involved in rescuing some??

Mike

On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:34:04 -0400, Mike Ross corestore.org> wrote:

Belay that... it's John Wilson I remember as having some. Bit rot.

Mike