VAX-11/780 Board Set on eBait

devin davison lyokoboy0 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 16:15:34 CDT 2016


It looked like a good batch of boards and i was holding out on finding a
machine. Any good place to get a 11/780 aside from watching the local scrap
centers with my fingers crossed one will be there?

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Mike Ross <tmfdmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>     > From: Devin Davison
> >>
> >>     > well there goes my plan of trying to keep it under the radar.
> >>
> >> Sorry, I didn't mean to upset your plan (and you); I just didn't know if
> >> anyone was watching for VAX-11/780 parts, they come by so rarely.
> >>
> >
> > If anyone is desperate for VAX-11/780 parts, let me know -- a friend of
> > mine recently came into a load of them.  If it can help someone bring a
> > /780 back to life, he'd be up for working something out...
>
> I'm going to start that with my 780 soon. I'll probably snag the eBay
> parts if the price stays reasonable and I'll let you know how things
> go.
>
> BTW you mentioned you had had problems with your 730 main breaker too?
> How exactly was it misbehaving? Did it sometimes refuse to power
> machine even when it was in the ON position?
>
> Mike
>
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