VAX collectors attention

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Wed Dec 2 21:28:11 1998

At 10:25 PM 30-11-98 -0500, Bill Pechter wrote:

>I thought the 8600's used Pro350's when I worked on them.
>Some of the later 8000 series used Pro380's, I was told.

The 8600s had an 11/0x (for some value of x, probably 4) which lived in the
same Unibus box as the VAX Unibus peripherals. Nautilus class machines
85xx, 8700 and 8800 had Pro consoles 350s and 380s. The later model 88xx
systems used MicroVAX-IIs as a console. I no longer have any 8xxx class
machines, but I still have all the consoles (they are _much_ easier to
store :-))

I had this theory that Digital used excess systems as consoles and as they
ran out of a particular type, created a new system to use the next set of
redundant hardware...


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