6 Nov
2011
6 Nov
'11
3:51 p.m.
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.
-ethan
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.