--- Chris <mythtech(a)Mac.com> wrote: The 11/730 came in two flavors, both in 19"x42" racks - the original had the CPU in the middle in a pull-out enclosure, with (typically) an RL02 on top and RB80 (121Mb) on the bottom. The later version looked like a skinny 11/750 with the CPU behind a full-length door in a BA-11 with a custom backplane in part of it and presumably a regular DD11-DK or two in the rest. Its TU-58s were, IIRC, accessible from the front. The 11/750 was in a 42" tall cabinet also, but about 25% wider. The backplane was turned so the cards were vertical, like an 11/780 or other large VAX. It went from right to left, CPU cards, MASSBUS cards, memory cards, then a DD11-DK on the right edge. If you didn't need lots of Unibus peripherals, it could be self-contained from an I/O standpoint. If you had a Unibus SCSI card, you could even make it self-contained for disk (but you'd have to rig power from somewhere). Tape could be another matter. As I've said before, the 11/750 is one of my favorite VAXen. It's not scorchingly fast, even by VAX standards, but with 8Mb, it'll run VMS4.x just fine with room for a couple of users. -ethan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com