21 Mar
2001
21 Mar
'01
6:38 a.m.
On March 21, Paul Williams wrote:
I've just found a VAX 4000-500 sitting out in the
rain at work with a
scrap note attached, so I've relocated it to my house. I figure that if
I carefully dry it out and remove all those funny bits of plastic and
metal from inside, it'll make a lovely bedside cabinet. Heh heh.
Good score! The 4000-500 is a *nice* machine. *drool*
-Dave McGuire
21 Mar
21 Mar
8:08 a.m.
New subject: DEC RZ26L drive?
I've been offered a DEC RZ26L SCSI drive. Searching 'The Tech Page'
shows no entries for DEC drives. Does anyone know where I might find
the specs?
TIA.
Jim
4:19 p.m.
New subject: DEC RZ26L drive?
I nabbed this some time ago from DSNlink:
RZ26L 3-1/2" x 1.0" height SCSI-2 disk drive
Capacity ... 1.05 GB
3117 cylinders, 8 R/W heads, 59-119 sectors*
peak xfer rate ........... 2.7-5.5 MB/s
bus xfer rate ............ 10 MB/s
average access time ...... 15.1 msec
average seek time ........ 9.5 msec
RPM ...................... 5400
buffer .................. 512 KB
* Variable bit recording (banded recording) varies the number of
sectors depending on track location.
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6:05 p.m.
New subject: DEC RZ26L drive?
Thanks Paul.
That was *exactly* what I was looking for.
Jim
4:25 p.m.
New subject: DEC RZ26L drive?
Look on the NetBSD/VAX hardware page. Its a 1.05GB drive, not too exciting
but plenty-o-room for a full up VMS install...
--Chuck
At 11:08 AM 3/21/01 -0800, you wrote:
I've been offered a DEC RZ26L SCSI drive.
Searching 'The Tech Page'
shows no entries for DEC drives. Does anyone know where I might find
the specs?
TIA.
Jim
9:57 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On March 21, Paul Williams wrote:
Shame about the two huge MicroVAX II cabinets that went in the skip
later on, but they didn't fit in my car. I keep asking the IT Department
to let me know about kit that will be skipped, but getting to it in time
is a problem. Buying beers for the IT Manager on Friday lunchtimes only
works if he can still remember his reckless offers on Monday morning!
It appears that the 4000 is dry now, and when I unscrewed various bits I
could see why. The heavy case only houses two boards, fan and PSU! No
disks, so I guess it booted from somewhere else in the cluster. I also
see that I misread the badge; it's a VAX 4000-505A, which I think makes
it younger than 10 years old.
I managed to grab two TK50 drives from the MVAXIIs. I don't know whether
they're working, and there are no cables, but if anyone wants to risk
the price of postage in order to get one, let me know (UK only, please).
They weigh about 2.5kg, which Parcelforce will probably round up to 3kg
for calculating postage.
Paul
I've just found a VAX 4000-500 sitting out in
the rain at work
with a scrap note attached, so I've relocated it to my house. I
figure that if I carefully dry it out and remove all those funny
bits of plastic and metal from inside, it'll make a lovely bedside
cabinet. Heh heh.
Good score! The 4000-500 is a *nice* machine. *drool*
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