11/782

All the stuff I see on the net is just "not many people know..." type of stuff with no credible sources (actually, mostly no sources whatsoever). I know that there were "VAXen that never shipped" and I might be able to remember the names of some of them if pushed (Raven, for one). But I never heard even a whispering of such a VAX while inside DEC and there is nothing that says "784" in the Options & Modules List (except for a raft of power supplies, some Mxxx[x] boards and some DECmate bits). Admittedly the only non-scanned searchable-text one I have is from 1994, but it still has the VAX-11/780 and a boatload of PDP-11s in there, so it would be odd if the mythical VAX-11/784 dropped off by accident. So unless someone digs out some evidence, I'll just choose not to believe that DEC ever built a 784 (and after building the 782, I cannot believe that they would have even tried :-)). Antonio