On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:41 AM, CRC <technobug at comcast.net> wrote:
A complete system (in pieces) is on EBay @
250390580244. Very reasonable at
this moment...
While I know it would work, I've never seen a DECmate I paired with
the table-top RX02s. I've only seen the CPU paired with the
pedestal-mounted RX02s (one set or two sets for two or four drives),
sitting on the VT-100-sized Formica top. My DECmate I happens to have
a desktop clip on the pedestal where the keyboard tray normally sits,
plus the 4-foot-wide desktop that hangs from the clip. It's a really
neat arrangement.
One of these days, I hope to get a spare set of parts and put a second
RX02 in my pedestal. You can dismantle a working RX02 and fit in the
PSU, the drives and the boards (leaving out, ISTR, the fan and back
air duct), but I have enough uses for rackable RX02s that I probably
won't ever bother to dismantle a working unit for that. I still need
to find/make a Y-cable , and I'd need to find/make another
DB25-Berg-40 board for underneath the Formica top to tie it all
together.
It's great little system. Once upon a time, I'd hoped to find an RL02
controller for it, but I'm guessing the chances of that are pretty
slim now.
Good luck to whoever, if someone on the list picks it up.
-ethan