Can anyone identify this vax for sale on Ebay?

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Thu Oct 1 07:58:20 1998

On 1 Oct 98 at 9:32, Allison J Parent wrote:

> < And of course DECsystems might be 36 bit (DECsystem-10 for example), 32
> < (DECsystem 5500) or something else (wasn't there a DECsystem based on
> < either an -8
> < or -11? for word processing). I also seem to recall that there were Inte
> < based DECstations too....
>
> There were two different DEC systems for word processing:
>
> WPS 100 and 200 series were PDP-8E or 8A cpus
> WPS78 6100 CMOS version of PDP-8
>
> DECmate later version of the CMOS based word procesors using the 6120
> version of the CMOS PDP-8 on a chip.
>
> A possibly incomplete list of DEC systems and what the cpu was used...
> more or less. These are all "chip" based so it leaves out the PDP-1
> through 15 series machines.
>
> DECMATE series 6120 processor (a PDP8 in CMOS)
> VAXmate Intel 80286 oriented as diskless PC workstation for vaxen.
> DECstation MIPS series
>
> Rainbow 8088/z80
>
> Pro3xx PDP-11 (f11 or J11 chips)
> PDT-11 series KDA11 (LSI-11 series)
> Falcon T-11 series pdp-11 chip
>
> Vt180 (AKA Robin) Z80
>
> MicroVAX
> VAXstation
> VAXserver These are VAX systems based on Microvax, CVAX, NVAX and
> later 32bit VAX based chips.
>
> Alpha 64bit archetecture and the chip series based on it.
>
>
> Allison

 Allison, just how compatable were the Rainbow and Decmate ll.
I have a Decmatell Word Processing 2 book manual no disks and
another Decmate Hardware Configuration Manual with a System
Test Disk and a system overview disk which I have viewed on my
"Bow. From all the diagrams they were identical in appearance and
seemed to have used the same keyboard and monitor. IIRC from
the R'bow fido docs I downloaded from the Finnish site the Bow
could use SCO UNIX (?) Was the 'bow able to access the mini's ?

ciao larry
lwalker_at_interlog.com
Received on Thu Oct 01 1998 - 07:58:20 BST