19 Sep
2001
19 Sep
'01
10:50 a.m.
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
That is a sweet machine.
Indeed.
Very nice toys. I have a MV4k200 in a BA215. A very
handy QBus VAX and
it is nice to work on the BA215. No finger breaking and flor crawling
like on the flor stand BA23.
This one is an even nicer toy. This one is two 4K/700As in a rack. That
thing on the floor is an external DSSI box. There is one more like it in
the rack.
As someone
that cares for an 8820 at work,
A 8820 still in production use?!
I know from ragge, the NetBSD/VAX port-master, that there is a 8800 in
north Sweden runing. AFAIK it is the machine behind ftp.luth.se, as the
folowing picture implies:
http://www.ludd.luth.se/gallery/ludd1-mII/ftp.luth.se_mark_IV-4.jpg 
I really think
the 8700 is nuts, but fun.
Nuts are fun. ;-) BTW a stupid question: What is a 8700? Is it SBI based
like the
11/78[05] and 86[05]0, or is it XMI / VAXBI like the 85x0 or 6k VAXen?
I asume that a 8700 is a 8600 in a biger enclosure?
Nope. An 8700 is a single-CPU 8800.
Peace... Sridhar