13 Mar
2013
13 Mar
'13
2:07 p.m.
I have been reading conflicting information on these. Is the VAX 8800
console just a DEC Pro 380 with an extra real time interface card or a
modified Pro 380 ? I guess the gist is can the ones sold as 8800
consoles be used as regular Pro 380 ?
AFAIK it's a standard Pro with the (standard, but uncommon elsewhere)
Realtime I/O board in the cardcage and special softare installed.
I was given a Pro350 that I was told had been a VAX 8xxx console. The
realtiem I/O board had been removed (but was with the machine). It seems
to behave like any other Pro350.
-tony