> > I was given an 11/870 last year in november and since i'm not into DEC
> > systems, I advertised it here as available for pickup...no body seemed
> > interested so it went to the scapper in January.
>
> Sigh. I either missed that one, or it was too far away, I forget which.
>
> I'd like a 780, 782, 785, or the little-known 787. If anyone has one
> in or near Silicon Valley, let me know.
OK, I'll bite. The 787 was what -- a 782 dual asymetrical machine
made of 11/785's instead of the 11/780's in the 11/782.
The 11/782 was the worst Vax invention known to man.
This WAS the machine routed to East Germany (or was it the going to the
USSR) back in the '80's and it was caught in Germany headed for Denmark.
This was a big deal illegal "Supercomputer" export back then.
This of course was followed up by DEC's insertion of "VAX when you
care enough to steal the best" or something like it in the MicroVaxII
chip mask.
The multiprocessor 11/782 software didn't work well...
I had to move 4mb of memory from the slave attached processor to the primary
just to get the machine to backup.
>
> I'm mostly not interested in other VAXen; the 78x is about the newest
> DEC machine I'd want to own. Except for a 2020.
>
> Cheers,
> Eric
Actually, my favorite is an 8650 with the RT11 front end T11 cpu.
But the power and space requirement is a bit much.
Bill
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Received on Wed Oct 20 1999 - 07:53:51 BST