--- Gunther Schadow <gunther_at_aurora.regenstrief.org> wrote:
> Hehe, there goes the last VAX out of my workplace, and right into
> my garage...
Been there, done that, but it was all 11/7xx machines. :-) (well...
that plus some bitty Qbus ones and the one 8200)
> And its a 6610!
Nice.
> 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.
Does this mean that you might have some BI peripherals shaking loose?
You won't have one, but what I'm really looking for at the moment
is a 16MB VAXBI memory card or two - between a wad of 4MB and 2MB cards,
basic peripherals (KDB50, COMBOARD-BI, DEBNT, 2nd CPU (if I run my 8200
as an 8300), DMB32), I'm out of BI slots. I could probably get away
with one 16MB card (MS820-DA?) and run it with a 4MB card or two - that
should be plenty of RAM for one user. We used to run the entire company
on an 11/750 w/8MB in the mid-1990s - the two biggest memory pigs were
VMS MAIL and MASS-11 (3rd-party word processor).
So... while I'm sure you don't have one, I intend to get one eventually,
leaving room for interesting BI peripherals, should any show up. I
know that BI SCSI cards were made, but at $8K-$10 a pop, they didn't
sell like hot cakes. Love to locate one, though.
-ethan
-ethan
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Received on Thu Jun 13 2002 - 10:41:40 BST