3 May
2004
3 May
'04
6:54 a.m.
Someone's listed an entire VAX cluster with an 11/785 on EBay...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&item=4128752485&category=1247&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1
and the opening bid is only $500. If I could figure out how to get it
out to CA, I'd bid on it!
On Apr 29, 2004, at 1:35 PM, Antonio Carlini wrote:
Think roughly
the equivalent of 2-3 19" racks, and that's just for
the single enclosure holding the CPU. You'll need at least a 19"
rack for the disk drives.
A single VAX 6000 cab is (from memory) a bit wider than a 19" rack,
but not by more than maybe a hand each side. There was an official
cab kit that let you run a set of RA7x drives (maybe in an SA7x
enclosure) in the bottom of the VAX 6000 cab. There may
even have been an official way to run a brace of RA9x drives
in there too. So it would be possible to run a VAX 6000 in
a single cab.
These days, assuming you are not going to be asking for
official support :-), you could try cramming an HSJ and
a string of SCSI drives in the bottom and stick a DSSI
card in the 6000 ...
Antonio
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