Final tally from the VAX fairy

Ok, so after a day of intermittantly going out to the pile and moving it indoors I've got the final VAX fairy tally: 2 - BA123 Chassis Chassis 1 has a VAXStation II badge a KA630, 8MB (+1) of RAM the DEQNA RQDX3, and TQK50. Peripherals were two RD53's and a "hole" where the TK50 would have been. There are also four "Avalon" boards which are quad width, have a Mot 88K processor on them, something like a 4MB daughter card, one edge connector (26 pin) and a couple of LEDs. No clue what these do. Chassis 2 has that I've been stored in the outside air about it. It had the tighted MV2 system I've seen, KA630, MS630-BA, and a dual width MS630-AA (4MB total) and an RQDX3 all in the first three slots. No ethernet, nothing else. One RD53 and one hole where the TK50 would go. (hope they didn't think they were DLT drives :-) 2 - BA23 chassis Chassis 1 was badged MicroVAX III and yielded a KA655 + two third party memory boards, both with socketed ram chips, one only half populated. Weird. This system also had an Emulex QD32 SMD controller for Q-bus, and an Emulex Pertec tape controller. Chassis 2 (separate rack) was badged MVII and had a KA630 + 8MB, a DEQNA, and an RQDX3. Then on the bottom it had an Emulex UC07 scsi controller, but the board literally had a spiders nest on it. I'm going to clean it up and see if it works. that would be a great deal if it did. The MicroVAX 3 appeared to be complete but the rack it was in had clearly fallen on its side at some point (perhaps during transport or in the parking lot) the damaage actually looked pretty old, but it had to be noisy because the BA23 was _bent_. Now I've done a lot of things to BA23's since I started playing with them and I can tell you it takes a hell of a whack to bend one. The top cards were fine but the bottom card (a DHV11) was bowed from the stresses placed on it. So much for that chassis! Also in this rack was a pair of Fujitsu SMD drives that were on a dual disk sled. Unfortunately there heads were not locked and they had been forcibly bounced out of the rack slides. I'm not expecting them to have survived :-) A couple of Unibus extender boxes (BA11-K) one with switching power supply (about 25 lbs) one with linear supply (about 85 lbs!) The latter however matches the decor on my 11/34a which has no backplane space left so to that rack it goes. One had an M9313 terminator in it. (guess I can replace my 9302 in the 11/34 now) A couple of Sigma Q-bus extenders (labels inside say "do not put a CPU in this rack", I wonder why.) The one in the damaged rack was unsalvagable. These both had the sigma qbus extender pairs. Then there was one rack with a beautiful Kennedy 9400 Pertec tape drive. I'm dying to see if this thing works, it actually looks like it was indoors for most of its life. Tony or anyone else, is there a way to power this up without connecting it up and seeing if it can load a tape? I've got an emulex controller for it but the cables were shredded and so they are of no use to me. I'm wondering if I can plug it in and power it up to see if it works. Then a few misc Unibus boards, docs for various things, the rattiest MicroVAX 2000 I have ever seen, all rusted at the connectors. (Looks like it could have literally been used as a boat anchor!) It was hiding yet another RD53 inside. I've also got a Emulex quad width board that looks like an SMD controller, part number is: QD3510206. I've got no use for it, I'm not crazy enough to try to run every type of disk technology and SMD is right out. Anyway, it was a remarkable thing to find literally on ones doorstep. Now to see how many of the systems can be salvaged, get parts to people who need them and who knows. I'm hoping to have a fully restored MVII in a BA123 available at VCF for sale. Sort of a complete system for the new collector who doesn't have furniture yet :-) --Chuck