MicroVAX equipment - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Jul 2001

...
  It's been nearly a decade since I really dealt
with MicroVAXen,
 but I came across a guy who has the following:

 MicroVAX 3600
 uVAX 1000
 RA81 (2)
 RA90 
What on earth is a uVAX 1000? I've never heard of that before. I'm
rather curious to know!

...
  and some miscellaneous cards, in four cabinets.  He
got them
 in as part of a truckload of de-installed equipment and doesn't
 have any idea what they're worth.  I'm at a loss as to what to
 offer for them, other than (of course) the lowest possible price.

 Any ideas on the going rate for this type of DEC equipment? 
In all honesty, the whole lot is really worth less than $100, unless
the MicroVAX 3600 has some really nifty equipment (like a SCSI card)
in it, or that uVAX 1000 is something special, as I really don't know
what that is.

I'm a little vague on what a RA90 is, but I know the RA81s are huge
drives, and they should probably consider themselves lucky if you're
willing to haul them away!

...
  He's also got a DEC MicroServer and some VT
510's. 
VT510s are rather new terminals; they're not actually DEC designed.
These are "technically" probably worth a little bit on the terminal
market, since they're not more than a few years old (probably). On
the used market, however, how much is a relatively standard terminal
worth?

...
  The guy was nice enough to give me an RL02K-DC
removable
 disk pack (since he didn't know what it was or what it worked
 in), so he seems easy to deal with.  (The disk pack did not
 come with the MicroVAX stuff.) 
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