--- Robert F Schaefer <rschaefe_at_gcfn.org> wrote:
> That AC is probably putting out a whole lot of noise-- have any problems
> with that 8530?
Big "was", not "is". We shut the doors there in the Fall of 1993, IIRC.
I scooped up what I could, but we left the 8530 (and the TU-78, and
a pair of RK07s, and about 30 CiTOH VT100 clones, etc., etc.) behind.
I did get its Pro380, the 11/730, 11/750, 11/04, 11/24, 11/34s, 11/03,
11/23s, MicroVAXen, the 8300, the TU80, the raised floor (about 110 tiles)
and a bunch of other stuff (test equipment, printers, dozens of DEC
terminals, comms racks...) There just wasn't room for everything.
I don't remember any particular problems with reliability, but OTOH, it
was mostly a driver test bed for our VAXBI product - the NMI was
substantially different from a native VAXBI machine like the 8300...
turns out we were doing the "wrong thing" in the driver when we went
to stop the board (bad advice from a VMS device driver manual). The 8300
didn't care, but anything with an NMI curled up its toes and died hard.
The fix... commenting out one line of the driver. :-)
-ethan
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Received on Fri Feb 01 2002 - 12:17:08 GMT