23 Aug
2001
23 Aug
'01
3:46 a.m.
On 23 Aug, Glenatacme(a)aol.com wrote:
Recently a post apperaed here wherein someone was
wanting to give away a VAX
11/750.
That is a really nice VAX. Not that fast (0.65 VUPs / MIPS) but it is
one of the more handy real VAXen. (Real means it is no MicroVAX or
VAXstation). Only the VAX 11/730 is smaler.
Especially appealing is the number of
operating systems which it will run,
You may join the TUHS/PUPS mailinglist, get a
free UNIX source license
and a copy of the TUHS/PUPS UNIX software archive. Then you are able to
run some 4.xBSD VAX UNIX on your 11/750. See
http://minnie.tuhs.org/TUHS/index.html
Also, consider to join the NetBSD VAX mailinglist, even if you don't
intend to run NetBSD on that machine. There are a lot of people on that
list that can help you to get that machine to work.
For VMS see: http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/index.html
It looks ablout 3.5 feet tall, and the specs put it at
180+ kilograms. How
can it weigh that much?
It is made out of a lot, now old, iron. Have a look at
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/Hardware/Machines/DEC/vax/vax700.html#v…
and of course
http://vaxarchive.sevensages.org/hw/750faq.html
How much does the tape unit weigh? Another 180
kilos??
Depends on the tape unit. A TSV05, AKA chipher F880, is rather small
and can be caried by one person. Some TU?? device with that vacuum
stuff may be lager and heavier than the VAX. Don't forget the disks.
Some RA8x are comon for the VAX11 series of minicomputers. A RA81 is
26.3 x 44.5 x 67.3 cm big (14" platters) and weights around 80kg -
without the rack.
What is the total power consumption for the 11/750 and
the tape unit?
A friend is running a 11/750 with some TU tape and RA8x disks out of
one
or two 230V (germany) wall outlets. It is not that bad like a VAX 9000.
;-)
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/