7 Jun
2009
7 Jun
'09
10:08 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I've seen your posting about the 11/750 and I cannot refute them given
your interests and proclivities, but this happened to be the machine I
Note that I said that I'd take the drives and leave the VAX. Not that
that that was necessarily the right thing to do, or the thing that you
should have done :-)
Of the VAX 11/7xx machines, the 11/750 is my least favourite, due to the
fact it's stuffed with gate arrays that are, I assume unobtainable now
(and from what I remmeber, when they were avaialble from DEC, they were
ridiculously expensive!) If I had the sapce, I'd love an 11/78x. But I
don't, so I have an 11/730 that I must get round to looking at [1] That
one is 2910s for the data path and rows of unprotected PALs...
[1] I've been spending far too much of my time on HP stuff. Maybe I
should try another manufacturer for a change :-)
Indeed.
=A015 years ago, I was able to save the 11/750 from work, but
could not find room for a pair of RK07s and a pickup-truck-load of
I think I'd have takne the drives (and put them on an 11 or something)
and left the VAX. The 11/750 is not a machine I greatly care for.... first learned VMS on, the first machine I wrote a UNIX
driver on, and
one that' I'd upgraded internally many times (it shipped with 512K and
I upgraded it myself to 8MB to give it five more years of use as the
Ah, that's a darn good reason for wanting to keep it :-). I still have a
soft spot for the machines I fiest wrote device drivers on, for my own
hardware. Namely a TRS-80 Model 3 running LDOS and a CoCo 2 (later a CoCo
3) running OS9.
[...]
RK07 cartridges. =A0Those were good drives - easy to
repair, decent
I am not convinced abotu the 'easy to repair'. I've read the printset,
and that servo system is _complicated_. And don't you need some rather
special tools/test gear to fit new heads?