RED ALERT! FREE VAX Cluster needs rescue!

From: Aaron Christopher Finney <aaron_at_orr.wfi-inc.com>
Date: Tue Feb 3 10:19:40 1998

I asked about the mass of the thing, just to dream about shipping it. 6 boxes, 250 kg's or so apiece (over a ton). It's a fairly large system, eh?

Aaron

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>To anyone interested, my school is looking to make the old VAX cluster
>disappear. It consists of two MV3600's, several racks of RA81/82's, one
>MVII, and a TU-something-or-other.

        How large is all this equipment, in square and cubic feet? What sort
        of power does it take? Anything particularly interesting or novel
        about this system? MicroVAX III circa 1987, KA650 processor, QBUS,
        ~32 meg RAM, RA-82s are ~600 meg, VMS 5.x? Roughly 2.8 VUP?
        Main unit, rack-mount half-height? Maybe a TU-81+, half-height rack tape?

        - John
        Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
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