"njh1@st-andrews.ac.uk" "Nicholas James Humfrey" wrote:

> 	I have just seen several MicroVax IIs being sold off by a surplus
>company called 'Greenweld'. I was wondering if it was worth my while
>puchaseing one. They are in a BA23 case with 9Mb of RAM, a 5.25" disk
>drive, DEQNA card. However there does not seem to be any graphics/serial
>card.

DEQNA is a bit brain-dead as an ethernet adapter (DELQA would be better) but it
is adequate for your purposes. I don't think NetBSD will support the VCB01/VCB02
as a graphics card yet (i.e. X11) so not having one doesn't hurt.

>      They are said to come from a working installation, so it is likely
> not to have any problems. The price is 52 pounds sterling including
> postage (about $30). Is this good value, and how easy is it to get the
> machine running NetBSD ?

Someone (possibly BUll, possibly Greenweld) was advertising these maybe a year
ago. As that was the first time I'd ever seen a "non-specialist" offereing a VAX 
for sale, it is possible that these are the same ones. BTW: I think you have 
your exchange rates the wrong way round :-)

Antonio

Antonio Carlini                            Mail: carlini@marvin.enet.dec.com
DECnet-Plus for OpenVMS Engineering
Digital Equipment Corporation              Worton Grange, Reading, England