Microvaxen bits etc. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Oct 1998

-----Original Message-----
From: Huw Davies &lt;H.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Tuesday, 27 October 1998 15:38
Subject: Re: Microvaxen bits etc.

...
 At 06:53 PM 26-10-98 +1030, Geoff Roberts wrote:

...
 My spares cupboard is a good place to start :-) 

LOL.  I should have known.

...
  BTW, Huw, did
you ever come across a source for a Vax 8530-Console cable? 
I think it's in another cupboard in my spares room. It's just behind four
or five 6000 series cabinets, three HSC70s and a few other bits..... 

Name your price for a DELQA or DELQA-YM and the 8530 console cable.

I'd swap you something, but you probably have 3 of everything I have
already....:^)

Hmm, you'd know the answer to this, I'm sure.

Situation:
We bought a complete system as spares, a 6310 with DMB-32, KDB-50 & 64mb
plus a KLESI-B & TU81+ and 3 x RA90's.  Very cheap, from a scrapyard.
(I'm currently negotiating for the card fit from a couple of 6440's that
turned up at the same place)

Mission:
To make our existing 6310 into a 6320 by adding a cpu card from the other
machine.

Problem:
The ROM is the same (4.1) but the s/n etc have to match for it to
be useable as a 2nd cpu.  Will a save of the most recent of the cpu cards
EEPROM data
to the console TK70 and a restore to the other cpu duplicate the serial no?
Or is their some darker art required?

TIA.

Cheers

Geoff Roberts
Computer Systems Manager
Saint Marks College
Port Pirie  South Australia.
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