7 Nov
2011
7 Nov
'11
6:32 a.m.
On Sun, 6 Nov 2011, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Gene Buckle <geneb
at deltasoft.com> wrote:
Nice rig.
I still have my 8300 in the basement that I rescued when my employer
closed in the mid 1990s (we bought it as a bare 8200, second-hand for
$13000, then I nabbed a compatible CPU module for around $100-$200.
For disk, it has one RA81 and one MDA ESDI-SDI disk box. I wish I
could get the DWBUA working on it, but I've gotten stumped by what
looks like self-test failures talking to the UET module at the far end
of the Unibus. I have multiple UETs, but until I find a way to test
them outside of the DWBUA, I have no confidence any of them work (or
might not require an ECO specifically to work with a DWBUA).
The machine runs fine - just no Unibus.
The 8250 was VAXBI, not Unibus, so this puzzles me (the 8350 was an 8250
with two CPU cards in it if memory serves)
The guy that ended up with my 8250 had an 8300 that he used parts of mine
to upgrade to an 8350. He even had the big RAM battery pack installed in
it. :)
g.
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On Sat,
Nov 5, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
>> ?I miss my 8250. :(
It was an awesome machine too. ?Three cabinets, four
RA-81 drives and a
TU-81+ tape drive. ?I paid $500 for it, straight out of the machine room at
Mannesmann-Tally in Kent, WA in the early 90's.