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PSW #759 - Ismael Valenzuela

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Including Support Contracts on PDP 11s

A service company that serviced PDP 11s well into their life was having a hard time finding spare parts. They were trying for like a year to sell them certain support contracts on these PDP11s. And they finally got one person to say, yet no, no, we don't need any of the service contracts on them. There are corporate departments out there just to find mainframe parts on eBay because there are companies, banks and large financial institutions who want 10 or 20 years of service out of it.

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