Someone's listed an entire VAX cluster with an 11/785 on EBay...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&item=4128752485&category=1247&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1
and the opening bid is only $500. If I could figure out how to get it
out to CA, I'd bid on it!
On Apr 29, 2004, at 1:35 PM, Antonio Carlini wrote:
>> Think roughly the equivalent of 2-3 19" racks, and that's just for
>> the single enclosure holding the CPU. You'll need at least a 19"
>> rack for the disk drives.
>
> A single VAX 6000 cab is (from memory) a bit wider than a 19" rack,
> but not by more than maybe a hand each side. There was an official
> cab kit that let you run a set of RA7x drives (maybe in an SA7x
> enclosure) in the bottom of the VAX 6000 cab. There may
> even have been an official way to run a brace of RA9x drives
> in there too. So it would be possible to run a VAX 6000 in
> a single cab.
>
> These days, assuming you are not going to be asking for
> official support :-), you could try cramming an HSJ and
> a string of SCSI drives in the bottom and stick a DSSI
> card in the 6000 ...
>
> Antonio
>
>
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> Antonio Carlini arcarlini_at_iee.org
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Received on Mon May 03 2004 - 13:54:37 BST