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Wow! When I was using a production 11/730, we _never_ had anything that fancy. We just strung the tape cable out of the side. One of the 11/730 boards (I forget the M number) uses 4 2901 bit-slice processors. At that VAX shop, we burned through several sets of boards over the years, it being cheaper to buy a used VAX at the time than get a single board repaired at depot prices. I scavenged the 2901's from one board to stick in a friend's BattleZone (6502 with 16-bit vector co-processor made from a pair of 2901's, et al.). It may be repairable, but it's still dirt slow. We used to use ours to link our product under VMS 5 (the VMS 4.x product was compiled and linked on our "fast" computer, a 11/750 (which I still have in storage)). -ethan