29 Jun
2000
29 Jun
'00
4:16 p.m.
For a hardware hacker like me, there are only 2 types
of VAXen to run at
home. The first is the 11/780 (or 11/785, 11/782) if you've got the
space. It's all chips that I can understand. But they're too large to
fit in my machine room at the moment.
The other is the 11/730. Small, slow, but there are only 2 ASICs (Memory
ECC gate arrays IIRC). The rest is AMD bit-slice, PALs, and simple chips.
-tony
I'd think a 11/725 would be right up your alley then :^) Isn't it just a
tiny 11/730? Except for the reliablity of the VAX-11/725 it looks like a
very cool little machine (OK, so it's slow, hardly has any RAM, and can't
run a modern OS).
Zane