16 Oct
2002
16 Oct
'02
2:15 p.m.
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Antonio Carlini wrote:
My VAX 6000 is no longer here, so I have to go on
memory. Pretty much all
there is in a standard 6000 is a row of PSUs at the top, a row with the
VAXBI and XMI busses and - right at the bottom - a converter/coditioner
that takes the incoming power feed and presents it to the rest of the box.
There is a large gap with plenty of air in it. About the only thing you could
use it for was a late-breaking internal storage addon. Every 6000 I've
seen had external storage (mostly via CI, since that's what big customers
were expected to do).
Gunther Schadow has a nice web page with extensive photos of VAX 6420s:
http://aurora.rg.iupui.edu/~schadow/VAX/anatomy/
Internally it cannot have been much wider that
19" so I would guess that the
rack-mount version would be about the same but without the large wad
of air :-)
The physical config on these is /entirely/ different. Here are the pics
from the eBay auctions:
http://world.std.com/~bdc/pics/vax6000/
These systems are basically the PSU, fans,
and the XMI. The small
amount of space to the right of the XMI cage seems to be used as a
storage area for the anti-static strap. It's a little too narrow for
a BI bus card cage.
-brian.