Which boards were changed when upgrading VAX 780 to a 785?

From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter_at_shell.monmouth.com>
Date: Thu May 21 23:42:17 1998

>
> I have lots of a 780, and lots of a 785.
> Which boards were changed when upgrading to a 785? Can I somehow combine
> the two and get a CPU? If I can, I can get a set of backplanes from ATS,
> but they're supposed to be spares for the VAX they've already decomissioned.
> They don't really want to give them to me unless I have a use for them.

The backplane was different, the entire CPU and floating point were
different. The Massbuss and Unibus adapters were the same...

I'll pull my '780 docs Saturday when I get home.

Bill

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