Sorry to disrupt your photography derailment but...
IT'S GONE!!
I went to check something in the photo and the person has de-listed it.
I don't have his contact info anymore so we will never know what it's fate was. I assume the worst. :(
Wait a sec, they also got rid of my account! Now I'm angry!
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>
>Subject: Re: VAXen at home
> From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:08:42 -0400
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On 10/16/07, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I agree that the custom gate arrays make the 11/750 unrepairable
>> > (except for raiding parts), but I still think it's a good compromise
>> > between size and performance, for the VAX-11 line.
>>
>> Has anyone here actually ever come across an 11/750 failure caused by
>> one of the gate arrays? They are remarkably reliable machines.
>
>They are remarkably reliable. I think I've seen one or two gate array
>failures in the 10-15 years that I was around 11/750s on a regular
>basis (and none lately, but that's a sample size of effectively zero).
>
>Even so, that's two out of dozens of problems that were in less
>esoteric arenas (like bad power supplies and such).
Most common problems were power supplies and perpieral related.
Serial lines drivers and recievers were common failures as well
but in the mill we usualy had long lines and occasional ground
faults to deal with.
If the machine is kept reasonably cool it's a rock.
Within DEC 750s were very common and after they were less in vogue
for actual use they serves lat, mop and routing service as they
required near zero attention if any at all.
I have a bigger sample size to look at from being inside DEC.
the gate arrays are as relaible or more so than any other chip
and the likelyhood of failure is highest for chips that talk
off the board this being due to electrical stress (drivers)
and ESD from handling the board. Theother group of possible
failures is in ram arrays as there are so many it's statisiclly
possible to see a part fail.
Allison
>
>> > Neither are _easy_ to find, but I think it's
>> > more likely to find a dusty 11/750 in a corner of a warehouse than an
>> > 11/780.
>>
>> One will find ten /750s for every /780 these days.
>
>I am entirely willing to accept that ratio (and since I have two
>11/750s... that means that somewhere in my pile should be 1/5 of a
>11/780, right ;-)
>
>-ethan
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Rumor has it that Alexandre Souza may have mentioned these words:
>>>How cool can the cooling system get?
>>An old friend who worked on SAGE said the operators used to store
>>their lunches inside the machine. Mmmm, toasty...
>
> OT:
>
> Some years ago, I had a serious infeccion...
Ahh.... too much information! ;-)
> Since I was in the parking lot with him, I asked him to open the hood of
> his car. Put the sandwich between the tubes of the exaust manifold and
> asked him to rev up the motor. In 30 seconds the sandwich was "eatable" :o)
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If you ever wanna go "Emeril" with your engine......
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
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