>BTW - mine was used for timesharing applications at a university, so
>I expect yours is a fairly large machine. Please, tell me more about your
>11/44, such as features of the CPU, the memory size, and peripheral
>devices available, and the overall dimensions of the computer. Mine is
>said to be some 30 feet long, so if yours is similar, how do you find the
Wow, I don't know what's more impressive, that it's about 30 feet, or your
having it shipped! Thats got to be about 16 racks!
Mine is two racks, but I believe it was at least three at one point since
it has two controller for RL drives. I've added a TU-81+ tape drive, but
don't have a controller yet. Still haven't gotten the thing powered on yet
anyway, hard to find time to go out in the garage and work on it.
>space to put all the parts together. I plan to put mine in the living room
>of my home, and my wife, as you might imagine, has some reservations
>on the matter!
Um, have you ever worked around any major computer installations? These
things are noisy! I occasionally bring in a RL01 or RL02 drive into the
house to attach to a Q-Bus system and that's noisier than I'm wanting to
have running much. Then there is the hum of the power supply, and let's
not forget the heat. Personally I want a place with a nice big two or
three car garage eventually, put in airconditioning and proper power, and
you'd have a good computer room (though probably not the cleanest).
Oh, as for OS's, a /44 should run just about anything that doesn't have
very narrow hardware requirements (i.e. Version 5,6,7 UNIX). Hopefully
you're getting documentation. I finally found a copy of the tech manual
today (YIPEE), along with a bunch of VAX stuff at a local junk store.
Unfortunatly I missed the Ultrix-32 Distro tapes, but got the manuals (a
friend happened to be in latter in the day and found them).
Zane
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