Ethan Dicks wrote:
> --- 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)
Still have those? It's fun isn't it, my 11/780 is a very nice
decoration to the garage :-)
>>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?
I do have a stock of spare cards. Not too much interesting stuff
though.
> 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,
sorry, no memory, I never had a pure VAXBI machine.
> basic peripherals (KDB50, COMBOARD-BI, DEBNT, 2nd CPU (if I run my 8200
> as an 8300), DMB32),
I bought a few superflous DEBNx cards. The funny thing is they
say DEBNT on the outside but when I run them the SHOW CONFIG
says "DEBNI". I don't know who's lying.
> I'm out of BI slots.
Hmm, isn't there something like a VAXBI bus extender? In that
case you might have use for my VAXBI double backplane?
> 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.
Ah the SCSI stuff. Yea, I have given up on that. SDI disks are
a lot more fun, frankly. But I do have an MTI StingRay storage
rack that has a CI controller and loads of SCSI drives. I just
need to learn how to use it.
-Gunther
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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
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Received on Fri Jun 14 2002 - 00:22:28 BST