DECmate-III questions

On Sunday 23 November 2003 17:38, Fred N. van Kempen wrote: I've got stuff from the guy before, and he's an OK person. I asked him if he had any complete DECmate IIIs, and he said he had one and wanted $80ish for it (no keyboard/monitor/cables). I decided I'd just get a couple of boards. I'm willing to bet that these are just spares he had and wants to get rid of. Personally, I think for $23+shipping (I actually managed to pay a bit less), the boards are an OK buy to get either as a spare module or for the chip to build something else from (perhaps an SBC6120?) if you can skillfully desolder 40pin DIPs from multi-layer PCBs. Now, I get to learn how to do that... on some 3com network cards or something. : ) Rest assured that the DECmate board will hopefully be preserved, with a socket for its 6120. Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS Information Technology at Purdue Research Computing and Storage http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/