16 Nov
2012
16 Nov
'12
1:06 p.m.
On 16/11/2012 18:20, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 11/16/2012 12:25 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I have a large number of TurboLaser Bus modules here, for
AS8000-family machines. I've been unsuccessful in finding one to put
them in...I want an 8200 or an 8400, but they seem to have completely
disappeared. I haven't seen one on the market for YEARS. I have no
idea of what's up with that.
The only TurboLaser I ever saw in the wild was an 8400 being field tested at
ICI Dumfries (Scotland) while I was installing a TruCluster of 4100s. It
looked very Heath Robinson and the engineer on site swore at it most foul
because of it's tendency to crash. These days I walk past its offspring
every day, we have several large Alphas in the warehouse at work, the
biggest being a GS60e which is the direct descendent.
I power 'em up from time to time, the noise of that, an AXP7710 and a
VAX6200 is almost music to my ears :)
--
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer
collection?
What
FB+ Alphas do you have?
One of these...
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=895
4000 AXP Model 710. Got it 10 years ago, fiddled with it when I first
got it (it boots to one of two different versions of UNIX on two of
the 5 installed SCSI disks) but don't have much reason to use it
often.