In article <4CC90512.9060609 at bluewin.ch>, Jos Dreesen <jdr_use at bluewin.ch> writes: Eh what? This is a VAX, not the Lilith or Eve. I just have boards and some systems. Apparently the documentation was all chucked before I had a chance to rescue it :-(. I do have some disks and I have to figure out how to image them. Its not standard SCSI or IDE style interface; I think its ESDI. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

In article <15158387.16821288248141850.JavaMail.webmail at bluewin.ch>, "jdr_use at bluewin.ch" <jdr_use at bluewin.ch> writes: Oh yes. The Eves don't look very interesting from that perspective, just beige boxes. However, I am making progress on my "to do list" for the collection. The Eves will work their way up the list and my first action item for them is to take pictures of everything I have, including all the boards. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

On 10/28/10 2:49 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote: I always tucked extra cable and stuff in that left side when raised floor wasn't available. The battery backup option also mounts over there if memory serves, but doesn't take up the whole space. They really are nice. If I can find some cash I'm hoping to find a way to get ahold of that machine. That's not terribly likely but one can hope. :) -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL

On 10/28/10 2:55 PM, William Donzelli wrote: In many cases, DEC's wider racks had no interconnect reduction benefits, at least none that I can identify. For example, the 11/750 is (more or less) a 19" rack machine in a rack with a wide cableway on the left side. It'd have the same number of connectors with or without that extension. The DECdatasystem-570 configuration of the PDP-11/70 is more of the same, just a lot more air in the box. Same connectors. The DECsystem-2020 contains card cages which don't appear to be helped really at all by the wider rack. The CPU/memory card cage (bottom) has big gaps on both sides, and the Unibus card cage (top) has a big gap to its right. It makes cabling more convenient, sure, but I fail to see how it reduces interconnects. The PDP-11/60 is similar, with lots of air surrounding fairly ordinary rack-width card cages. I can see your point where machines like the VAX-11/780 and larger 8000 series are concerned, though. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL