6 Nov
2011
6 Nov
'11
4:28 p.m.
On 11/06/2011 06:51 PM, 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.
-ethan
I still have the microVAXII that was under my desk at DEC still running
VMS-5.4.
That and a bunch of 3100s (m76s and some others) all running and a few
mV2000 running and as formatters. The BA123 uVAXII has a RD54 and CMD200
with 2 RZ56s. The 3100s have 1gb baracudas and a few odd 4.3gb and some
400mb SCSIs internal along with external BA42 storage boxes with 2 RZ56s
each.
Storage is not an issue but space, power and heat tends to pop up if I
run them all.
When all running they are the AIRPRT: LAVC cluster of 10 nodes.
My collection is anything CP/M, PDP-8e, All manner of Qbus PDP-11 and all
those VAXen. There are a smaller collection of SBCs (SC/MP, ELF, 6800D1,
Ti9900(technico), Super starter kit 6100, TK80, SDK85, and IMSAI IMP48
and a few others).
In the oddball collection is my EELF (Spare time gizmos) Embedded elf fully
loaded with disk and IO in a case with a CRT and accepts a PS2 keyboard.
Allison
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.