>
> >According to a friend who worked in Field Circus, if the systems were
> >inside DEC, that made it much MORE likely that they were entirely
> >non-standard configurations that bear no relationship to the label
> >on the outside of the box.
>
> Yep...
>
> One of my favorite non-standard systems was a GT40 (11/05 with VT11
> built in and VR14 display for graphics) which had a unibus-out cable
> which ran to a bay of *three* corporate tall cabs full of devices.
>
> It worked, but FS disn't want to touch it.
>
> We had that in the RT-11 'Cave' in the Mill (on ML5-5)
>
> Megan Gentry
> Former RT-11 Developer
What's the problem. Weren't they all like that.
I loved the VT11/VR17's on 11/34A's. Racal Redac used em for
cad stations for circuit board design.
You should've seen Naval Air Propulsion and their RSX and IAS
systems. The diags wouldn't even run clean on some of 'em -- but the
OS was clean. (The customer complained about the failing dual port diags
on the 11/70's dual ported rk07s. The timing was a problem but the OS
didn't have any issues. The customer wouldn't accept that as acceptable
so the field service fix was no-op'ing the diag error calls for those
tests.
RSX11 errorlog was ok -- but it seemed a Unibus timing issue on the
diags... which diag engineering had written off feeling who had dual
ported rk07's on 11/70's anyway...
Bill
ex-dec field service.
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Received on Fri Sep 24 1999 - 19:56:45 BST