RED ALERT! FREE VAX Cluster needs rescue!

I asked about the mass of the thing, just to dream about shipping it. 6 boxes, 250 kg's or so apiece (over a ton). It's a fairly large system, eh? Aaron From CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu Tue Feb 3 07:40:40 1998 Return-Path: &lt;CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu&gt; Received: from lists2.u.washington.edu (lists2.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.1]) by orr.wfi-inc.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA24217 for &lt;aaron(a)orr.wfi-inc.com&gt;om>; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 07:40:39 -0800 Received: from host (lists.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.13]) by lists2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with SMTP id HAA04106; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 07:34:38 -0800 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id HAA34798 for &lt;classiccmp(a)lists.u.washington.edu&gt;du>; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 07:31:13 -0800 Received: from threedee.com ([208.18.183.65]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with ESMTP id HAA25999 for &lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;du>; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 07:31:01 -0800 Received: from winnie (winnie [192.198.5.13]) by threedee.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA00712; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 10:29:27 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980203093044.00be26f0@pc> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 09:30:44 -0600 Reply-To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu Sender: CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu Precedence: bulk From: John Foust &lt;jfoust(a)threedee.com&gt; To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" &lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt; Subject: Re: RED ALERT! FREE VAX Cluster needs rescue! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Cc: hulbertj(a)msoe.edu X-Sender: jfoust@pc (Unverified) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: R How large is all this equipment, in square and cubic feet? What sort of power does it take? Anything particularly interesting or novel about this system? MicroVAX III circa 1987, KA650 processor, QBUS, ~32 meg RAM, RA-82s are ~600 meg, VMS 5.x? Roughly 2.8 VUP? Main unit, rack-mount half-height? Maybe a TU-81+, half-height rack tape? - John Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>