The uVax1000 is for real time purposes. A uVax II with a level of memory
management removed. Ran typically VaxEln. Last year I desperately needed
one to expand an industrial control application. We found one.
Wim
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> From: Netdiablo <ndiablo_at_diablonet.net>
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: MicroVAX equipment
> Date: Thursday, July 12, 2001 5:32 AM
>
> > It's been nearly a decade since I really dealt with MicroVAXen,
> > but I came across a guy who has the following:
> >
> > MicroVAX 3600
> > uVAX 1000
> > RA81 (2)
> > RA90
>
> What on earth is a uVAX 1000? I've never heard of that before. I'm
> rather curious to know!
>
> > and some miscellaneous cards, in four cabinets. He got them
> > in as part of a truckload of de-installed equipment and doesn't
> > have any idea what they're worth. I'm at a loss as to what to
> > offer for them, other than (of course) the lowest possible price.
> >
> > Any ideas on the going rate for this type of DEC equipment?
>
> In all honesty, the whole lot is really worth less than $100, unless
> the MicroVAX 3600 has some really nifty equipment (like a SCSI card)
> in it, or that uVAX 1000 is something special, as I really don't know
> what that is.
>
> I'm a little vague on what a RA90 is, but I know the RA81s are huge
> drives, and they should probably consider themselves lucky if you're
> willing to haul them away!
>
> > He's also got a DEC MicroServer and some VT 510's.
>
> VT510s are rather new terminals; they're not actually DEC designed.
> These are "technically" probably worth a little bit on the terminal
> market, since they're not more than a few years old (probably). On
> the used market, however, how much is a relatively standard terminal
> worth?
>
> > The guy was nice enough to give me an RL02K-DC removable
> > disk pack (since he didn't know what it was or what it worked
> > in), so he seems easy to deal with. (The disk pack did not
> > come with the MicroVAX stuff.)
>
> --Sean Caron (root_at_diablonet.net) | http://www.diablonet.net
Received on Thu Jul 12 2001 - 11:04:08 BST