VAX 4000-200 Maintenance

william degnan wrote: Nice :-) I do own an Vax4000/300, 3 DSSI Disks orginally 2xRF31 amd 1xRF71 32MB RAM, serial Multiplexer, TK70 with controller. In the meantime I'm repalced the RF71 against a RF73 (2 Gig) Drive, installed VMS 7.3 wih TCP/IP, works so far. I had to "repair" an RF31 with a hit of a rubber hammer, the fault light of the drive was on and I've read about the hammer in a post from a guy It seems that the head assembly in the drive gets glued to some rubber bumper in the drive after long storage. Exchanged the nicads against a wireless phone pack to..but they dont hold the charge for a month w/o power. I think I have to better clean the PCB where the nicads are connected to. There where already some greenish salts and I only used an old toothbrush to clean it. Maybe I have to train the nicads on my Imax B6 first .. but they where new. Running the machine 24/7 here in germany is to expensive now. We pay approx 30 Eurocents per kwh..and still raising b'cause our government means that it is a good idea to run photovoltaic power plants near the nord pole.. :-| Last power up and boot was 2 days before now, nicads empty again.. Do have an VS4000/90 and a VS3100/M76 too..Micro-pdp11 stuff too.. Regards, Holm -- Technik Service u. Handel Tiffe, www.tsht.de, Holm Tiffe, Freiberger Stra?e 42, 09600 Obersch?na, USt-Id: DE253710583 www.tsht.de, info at tsht.de, Fax +49 3731 74200, Mobil: 0172 8790 741