Vax 6320 on Ebay

On Fri, 2005-06-24 18:50:06 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl.de> wrote: VAX 6000-320 There we are. The machine arrived at a friend's house today. He'll host the machine for me, since I've got, um, erm, some problems finding a good place in my basement. On the first sight, the machine looks quite nice. Some scratches at it's right side, but nothing major. After opening the box, there's some shite dust (I guess it's from drilling holes into some wall...), but it's a nice view. Two CPUs, as expected, three memory boards (I haven't noted their part numbers, but from guessing their size from the used ICs, they're 32MB each, so 96MB in total). One board (in the XMI cage) was a T2027, which is a XMI-to-FDDI board. Nice :) Two BI adaptors connect the two halves of the BI cabinet. 11 of its 12 slots are filled (two boards are the matching bus adaptors, so there are 9 "real" boards installed). I haven't in detail looked at the boards, but the connectors on the back tell me, theres at least an async serial board (-> 8 additional DB25 connectors), two BNC connector plates (CI?) and the FDDI connector(s). We first started to off-screw a lot of metal to redice it's weight. We can now basically lift the machine with two people for some seconds, so I hope we'll manage to get the machine down into the basement with four men. Then some cleaning up, re-assembling. How can test the five power supply units? Three-phase power is already available, so is it okay to pull the cards and start the box or are additional resistors (car lamps, ...) needed? MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw at lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O f?r einen Freien Staat voll Freier B?rger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));