29 Apr
2004
29 Apr
'04
4:19 a.m.
"McFadden, Mike" <mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu> wrote:
VAX 6000-610
VAX 6000-410
I'm salivating but just don't have a place to house a 6000 in a full cabinet
(unless it's the smaller version for space-constrained people, a smallish
rackmount XMI card cage, but those were rarer than hen's teeth), let alone two
of them.
Is it the kind of thing that's headed for death in a melter if no one takes it?
If someone else (with a warehouse for his computers) can take them, great, but
if no one does and they head for scrap, can you please take out all boards (I'm
interested in all XMI and all VAXBI boards, the TU58, and any other boards/parts
that may be there other than the huge cabinet that I unfortunately can't handle)
and let me (or other interested people) have them?
MS
29 Apr
29 Apr
5:19 a.m.
How much room are we talking about? My garage is pretty empty (2 car
and I only use it for my 1 car).
Mark
P.S. I'm new to the list... it's so great to find such a wonderful
list for discussing old equipment... just makes me wish I had owned my
house years ago when I had things like Data General Eclipse machines
and had to dump them for lack of space.
On Apr 29, 2004, at 9:19 AM, Michael Sokolov wrote:
"McFadden, Mike" <mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu>
wrote:
VAX 6000-610
VAX 6000-410
I'm salivating but just don't have a place to house a 6000 in a full
cabinet
(unless it's the smaller version for space-constrained people, a
smallish
rackmount XMI card cage, but those were rarer than hen's teeth), let
alone two
of them.
Is it the kind of thing that's headed for death in a melter if no one
takes it?
If someone else (with a warehouse for his computers) can take them,
great, but
if no one does and they head for scrap, can you please take out all
boards (I'm
interested in all XMI and all VAXBI boards, the TU58, and any other
boards/parts
that may be there other than the huge cabinet that I unfortunately
can't handle)
and let me (or other interested people) have them?
MS
8:07 a.m.
How much room are we talking about? My garage is
pretty empty (2
car and I only use it for my 1 car).
Mark
Think roughly the equivalent of 2-3 19" racks, and that's just for
the single enclosure holding the CPU. You'll need at least a 19"
rack for the disk drives.
Zane
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8:35 a.m.
Think roughly the equivalent of 2-3 19" racks,
and that's just for
the single enclosure holding the CPU. You'll need at least a 19"
rack for the disk drives.
A single VAX 6000 cab is (from memory) a bit wider than a 19" rack,
but not by more than maybe a hand each side. There was an official
cab kit that let you run a set of RA7x drives (maybe in an SA7x
enclosure) in the bottom of the VAX 6000 cab. There may
even have been an official way to run a brace of RA9x drives
in there too. So it would be possible to run a VAX 6000 in
a single cab.
These days, assuming you are not going to be asking for
official support :-), you could try cramming an HSJ and
a string of SCSI drives in the bottom and stick a DSSI
card in the 6000 ...
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org
3 May
3 May
6:54 a.m.
New subject: VAX Cluster on Ebay in OK (was Re: More DEC equipment spotted in Kansas City)
Someone's listed an entire VAX cluster with an 11/785 on EBay...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&item=4128752485&category=1247&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1
and the opening bid is only $500. If I could figure out how to get it
out to CA, I'd bid on it!
On Apr 29, 2004, at 1:35 PM, Antonio Carlini wrote:
Think roughly
the equivalent of 2-3 19" racks, and that's just for
the single enclosure holding the CPU. You'll need at least a 19"
rack for the disk drives.
A single VAX 6000 cab is (from memory) a bit wider than a 19" rack,
but not by more than maybe a hand each side. There was an official
cab kit that let you run a set of RA7x drives (maybe in an SA7x
enclosure) in the bottom of the VAX 6000 cab. There may
even have been an official way to run a brace of RA9x drives
in there too. So it would be possible to run a VAX 6000 in
a single cab.
These days, assuming you are not going to be asking for
official support :-), you could try cramming an HSJ and
a string of SCSI drives in the bottom and stick a DSSI
card in the 6000 ...
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org
7:10 a.m.
New subject: VAX Cluster on Ebay in OK
I would definitely like SOME of the gear listed in that auction, but there's
no way I can swing a 40' truck to move all of it, or more importantly I
don't have ROOM for that much gear!
Jay West
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Subject: VAX Cluster on Ebay in OK (was Re: More DEC equipment spotted
inKansas City)
Someone's listed an entire VAX cluster with an
11/785 on EBay...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&item=4128752485&category=1247&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1
and the opening bid is only $500. If I could figure out how to get it
out to CA, I'd bid on it!
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Think
roughly the equivalent of 2-3 19" racks, and that's just for
the single enclosure holding the CPU. You'll need at least a 19"
rack for the disk drives.
A single VAX 6000 cab is (from memory) a bit wider than a 19" rack,
but not by more than maybe a hand each side. There was an official
cab kit that let you run a set of RA7x drives (maybe in an SA7x
enclosure) in the bottom of the VAX 6000 cab. There may
even have been an official way to run a brace of RA9x drives
in there too. So it would be possible to run a VAX 6000 in
a single cab.
These days, assuming you are not going to be asking for
official support :-), you could try cramming an HSJ and
a string of SCSI drives in the bottom and stick a DSSI
card in the 6000 ...
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org
7:20 a.m.
New subject: VAX Cluster on Ebay in OK
I would definitely like SOME of the gear listed in
that
auction, but there's no way I can swing a 40' truck to move
all of it, or more importantly I don't have ROOM for that much gear!
Of course, you meant "roomS" unless you live in
the kind of house we'd all *like* to live in!
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org
8:28 a.m.
New subject: VAX Cluster on Ebay in OK
Yeah, I got a quote from the guy selling it... $3500 to pack it and
truck it to where I am (San Jose, CA). Unfortunately, that's a bit
more than I can afford right now. :)
On May 3, 2004, at 12:20 PM, Antonio Carlini wrote:
I would definitely like SOME of the gear listed
in that
auction, but there's no way I can swing a 40' truck to move
all of it, or more importantly I don't have ROOM for that much gear!
Of course, you meant "roomS" unless you live in
the kind of house we'd all *like* to live in!
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org
7:18 a.m.
New subject: VAX Cluster on Ebay in OK (was Re: More DEC equipment spotted in Kansas City)
Someone's listed an entire VAX cluster with an
11/785 on EBay...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&item=4128752485&category=1247&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA
%3AIT&rd=1
and the opening bid is only $500. If I could figure out
how to get it
out to CA, I'd bid on it!
Not just a 785 but a VAX 8530, a VAX 8700 too. Two VAX 8250s
to boot (pun possibly intended :-)). Plus much other stuff
including spare parts and distribution tapes.
Surely CA is no problem: I assume you'd have to hire a driver
to go with the 40' truck anyway - how expensive can it be
from Oklahom to California :-)
I like the "Preference to go to a good home -
otherwise theres over $2,000 scrap gold in these machines"
and I'm impressed by the "Can be shown fully working".
Clearly a golden opportunity for someone.
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org
7:45 a.m.
New subject: VAX Cluster on Ebay in OK (was Re: More DEC equipment spotted in Kansas City)
Seems he will be happy with $500 for all of them. Why
should they make computers that are so heavy? I am
sure the boards are light. I remembered that I once
assembled a TU81, and there were two weights -- yes,
weights -- in it that each was about 50LB.
vax, 3900
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Someone's
listed an entire VAX cluster with an
11/785 on EBay...
%3AIT&rd=1
and the opening bid is only $500. If I could
figure out
how to get it
out to CA, I'd bid on it!
Not just a 785 but a VAX 8530, a VAX 8700 too. Two
VAX 8250s
to boot (pun possibly intended :-)). Plus much other
stuff
including spare parts and distribution tapes.
Surely CA is no problem: I assume you'd have to hire
a driver
to go with the 40' truck anyway - how expensive can
it be
from Oklahom to California :-)
I like the "Preference to go to a good home -
otherwise theres over $2,000 scrap gold in these
machines"
and I'm impressed by the "Can be shown fully
working".
Clearly a golden opportunity for someone.
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org
8:10 a.m.
New subject: VAX Cluster on Ebay in OK (was Re: More DEC equipment spottedin Kansas City)
Why
should they make computers that are so heavy?
Or the corrolary to that... why should they make computers that require 220
3-phase!
J
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8:18 a.m.
New subject: VAX Cluster on Ebay in OK (was Re: More DEC equipment spotted
Seems he will be happy with $500 for all of them. Why
should they make computers that are so heavy? I am
sure the boards are light. I remembered that I once
When I moved my I2S Model 70 Image Processor/Display systems, I found
that pulling the 30-odd boards from each card cage made the latter much
easier to lift, and that, indeed, I couldn't lift all the boards at once
(a total of 5 cardcages full -- a Model 70/E with 2 RAM cages, a Model
70/F4 and a Model 75)
Those are somewhat interesting machines that I really must get round to
restoring some day. The oldest one, the Model 70/E uses 4K DRAMs for the
video memory, and there are somewhere over 3000 of them in the machine
(!), and about the same number of TTL chips. The later machines use 16K
and 64K DRAMs, which is how they get the entire machine into one
cardcage.
-tony
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