Just out of curiosity.... what are your electric bills like??? Doesn't the
6610 use a 220 line? Also, what about cooling.... my old Microvax II use
to push so much damned heat out of it, I used to be able to practically heat
my 1 room attic apartment in the winter from that beastie.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gunther Schadow" <gunther_at_aurora.regenstrief.org>
To: <port-vax_at_netbsd.org>; <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>; "Micheal H. McCabe"
<p98mccabe_at_alltel.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 2:15 AM
Subject: A VAX 6610 is rolling toward my garage ...
> Hehe, there goes the last VAX out of my workplace, and right into
> my garage. And its a 6610! That means I will need to add in a few
> processors, but there is my NVAX. Much work is before me. I should
> get Ultrix 4.2 ported to it starting with the 6000-400 files. It
> can't be so hard after the 6000-500 runs... We'll see. Does
> anyone have the processor internal registers for the KA66A?
>
> With some luck we can drop in just a very small set of kernel files
> that can be reused under Ultrix 4.5 binary. For NetBSD it will be a
> little harder to replicate all the missing stuff. I think I will want
> to set up a fast cross compiling or native VAX box for that first.
>
> That also means that a 6400 will become free on relatively short
> notice. This one goes to Micheal McCabe, if he wants it (?) I am a
> bit reluctant yet to convert the 6400 to a -600 so quickly after
> I barely set it up. I guess I will take some time to actually do
> the conversion. But in a matter of 4 weeks after I took her home,
> I should probably get rid of that extraneous then 64x0 cabinet.
> (the 'x' depends a little on how I will distribute all the CPUs.)
>
> Also, there are the XMI and VAXBI backplanes (with some defect,
> but certainly not everything on both of them) free for the taking.
> They aren't claimed yet and that means I will decompose those
> shortly.
>
> cheers,
> -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 Thu Jun 13 2002 - 09:59:14 BST