Hi Gunther,
I have:
1978-79 VAX11/780 Hardware Handbook (310 pages)
covers VAX 11/780
1982-83 VAX Hardware Handbook (540 pages)
covers VAX 11/730, VAX 11/750, VAX 11/780
1988 VAX Systems Hardware Handbook - UNIBUS Systems (~400 pages)
covers VAX 11/725, VAX 11/730, VAX 11/750, VAX 11/780, VAX 11/782
VAX 11/785, VAX 8600 and VAX 8650
1988 VAX Systems Hardware Handbook - VAXBI Systems (~150 pages)
covers 8200/8250, 8300/8350, 6200, 8500, 8530, 8550, 8700, 8800
8974, 8978
1988 VAXBI Options Handbook (~150 pages)
covers VAXBI, CIBCA, DB88, DMB32,DWBUA, KA820/KA825, KDB50,
KLESI-B, MS820, DEBNA, DRB32, DHB32, KBTFA, DWMBA, TBK50,
KA800, MS800-EA
clint
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for VAX Hardware Reference for the VAX 11/780, 11/785,
> 86x0, the uVAX-II, and then the VAX 6000s. I suspect that's not all
> in one book. But, what revisions of the Hardware Reference are there
> anyway? I think the first edition is the 1978/1979, at least my
> VAX Architecture Handbook bears this date. I understand that the
> "Handbooks" were a 3-volume series, with volume 1 Architecture,
> vol 2 Harware and vol 3 Software (VMS). I assume that they threw
> out old models in more recent editions, right? Could we reconstruct
> which topics are described in which edition of the Hardware Handbook?
>
> One can't buy those any more, how does that influence the right to
> compile and share copies? I wonder if one could archive the
> Hardware handbooks by subject and that way compile a single volume
> with complete coverage of all VAXen.
>
> Besides, there is a mystical "Perepherial Handbook" to which I have
> seen reference once, but never any copy in bookstores, catalogues or
> on eBay. Did it ever exist? Was it volume 4 of the series? What
> items were covered over the years in there?
>
> regards,
> -Gunther
>
>
> --
> Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow_at_regenstrief.org
> Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
> Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
> tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
>
>
>
Received on Mon Apr 01 2002 - 22:19:07 BST