Mike wrote:
> I have a lead on a couple of VAX 8600 machines. Are these machines
> ones that people here consider worth preserving? I'm tempted but I will
> have to ship them from NC to CA, which I will do if they are worth it.
They're nice machines, but big and power-hungry.
And probably much harder
to fix than a 780 or 785.
The machine was partly ECL with custom gate arrays (IIRC). The
8600/8650, was in my opinion, the best VAX -- since it's fairly
quick and has all the PDP11 compatibility and supports both Massbus
and Unibus (and has the QBUS front end -- in a custom T11 board with
RT11 and an RL02).
It would be nice to see some of these preserved, but for my own part I'm
going to draw the line at 785s.
At least those were Schottky TTL reimplementation of the 11/780 (IIRC).
Rumor says it was done because the 8600/8650 was running late in design.
Cheers,
Eric
Bill
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