On Oct 6, 2013, at 14:29 , William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
I am, however, still willing to give up my VAX-11/751 for the right price.
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Will, in NY
Both "the right price" and it being on the opposite corner of the country from
me mean that I probably won't be the one to buy it, but your mention of it does make
me curious: What does it take to power an 11/750 or 11/751? I don't think I could
practically power an 11/780 at my home, but I'm wondering what the upper limit of
bigness is for DEC machines that I might procure. I presently have a VT-241 and a modest
pile of RL02 cartridges, and I would like to connect them together someday. So, any DEC
machine that would reasonably use RL02 drives is a possible future acquisition target, but
only if I can manage to house, power and cool it. I have a 200A 240V single phase panel in
my workshop, and I could make up to 10kW of 3-phase power with a military surplus
generator set that I have. For anything that might go inside my house, I think the upper
power limit would be either the 240V 20A circuit or the 120V 30A circuit that I plumbed
into my radio room to run transmitters.
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/