15 Jun
2005
15 Jun
'05
10:07 a.m.
Subject: RE: PDP 11/23 PLUS system for sale
From: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:40:19 -0400
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Actually depending on OS and general usage the critical factor for
the DEQNA was not rev but, is it functional at all? Most of the
DEQNAs I've touched and used either worked or were dead, rev was a
minor issue save for certain OS support issues. One of the REV
issues was that the more reworked versions tended to have more
failures (IE plain old dead) resulting from greater amounts of
handeling and use/abuse. For Q-bus 11s the DEQNA was an
acceptable device. DELQAs while nicer were scarcer.
Allison
>>>> "Julian" == Julian
Wolfe <Wolfe> writes:
Julian> I wasn't aware of this. Are you interested in the 11/23 box
Julian> if they are a suitable revision?
Sorry, I should have been clearer. No, I'm not -- my point was that
when you're posting information about the hardware, DEQNA rev is a
pretty significant piece of data. (That's usual, I think -- typically
things weren't so badly broken earlier on, and it certainly was quite
rare for there to be anywhere near that many revisions. But the DEQNA
designer was an unusual character, to put it very politely.)
paul