Yikes. Nice hardware going here...!

If noone wants these, I would humbly beg for someone to help me save the
cards, since I have a couple of 8650s here, which could use some extra
spares (and more memory).

If anyone wonders, these are pretty big machines, and rather heavy. They
*do* need 3-phase power (don't try to cheat on this!) and some cooling.

The 86x0 machines are the last to implement the PDP-11 emulation in
"hardware". They have a nice F-11 as a front end processor, which boots
from an RL02. The VAX itself is entirely in microcode, which is in the
RT-11 frontend file system. Upon boot, the F-11 loads the VAX with the
microcode, and off it goes. The VAX itself is very much ECL, pipeline and
cache. A plain 8600 is about 4 VUPS, while the 8650 is somewhere around
6.5 VUPS.

Personally, I love this model. :-)

	Johnny

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Erik E. Fair wrote:

> >From:	Phil Budne <phil@ultimate.com>
> >To:	fair@clock.org
> >Subject: FWD: VAX 8600's
> >Date:	Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:31:09 -0700
> >
> >
> >I seem to recall you were an 8600 fan....
> >
> >
> >Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:56:28 -0700
> >From: Mike Cruse <mcruse@acm.org>
> >To: classiccmp@classiccmp.org
> >Subject: VAX 8600's
> >References: <Pine.SUN.3.91-FP.1000713000315.23266H-100000@osfn.org>
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >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.
> >
> >There is no cost for the machines themselves. They just need to be
> >picked up.
> >
> >Mike
> 
> 

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