On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Paul A Vixie wrote:

> i asked someone about the quad-785 config, and he said...
> They had one of these at the Stanford Radioscience lab in 1989 or so.
> It was field-converted into this configuration and didn't have a

Hm, it's interesting, the machine got to Hungary around 1987, which
is strange, because even if these were the last years of it, the
COCOM embargo was still in force... It seemd to me when I looked
inside, that the main processors were two VAX-11/780's, which were
upgraded to 11/785's by the KFKI (a hungarian institute which produced 
PDP8, PDP11 and VAX clones; some modules are genuine DEC and some are
hungarian), and then, two slave processors were attached to them.
The 4-port shared memory box is genuine DEC again, I've been told,
that they've attached yet another another 11/785 to this box once, which
made it a very odd configuration :-) 

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