desparately seeking four (4) x VAX 8250's (sort of, maybe)

Hi, Someone on linked in this morning asked if anyone had four (4) VAX 8250's. I tried to explain that they were hopelessly old and slow. And all the obvious simh/charon/etc... But he says he has an RFP which has no room for changes or negotiation. So I gots to thinking. What if someone really did want four 8250's? Could they even find them? And, if they did (which is the scary part), could they find a complete set of spares, including power supplies? (I don't know if the RFP includes spares, but I'd sure put a business card inside each machine with my number and "CALL ME FOR SPARES" :-) And, what about disks? Can you connect a SCSI disk to an 8250? I would think SCSI would be the only hope for a reliable production machine in 2010. Did all 8250's come with UNIBUS? If so, then a unibus scsi board would be the right option. Anyway, consider it a thought problem. Unless of course, you have 1-4 VAX 8250's you'd like to sell ASAP :-) I was just curious if it could even be done... -brad Brad Parker Heeltoe Consulting 781-483-3101 http://www.heeltoe.com