25 Jul
2014
25 Jul
'14
6:39 p.m.
On Jul 25, 2014, at 14:47 , Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Many will disagree with me, but I prefer the 11/730 to
the 11/750. The
reason is that the latter is almost all those DEC bipolar gate array
chips, whereas the 11/730 is unprotected PALs and 2901s (OK, a couple of
the gate arrays for memory ECC, but...).
Interesting point. A friend of mine had both a 725 and a 730 back around 1990ish (sadly,
they were long gone by the time I got interested in having a VAX to call my own). One had
a bad PAL, but he could run either machine by swapping in the good PAL from the other
machine. :)
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
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