On July 7, you wrote:
> simonb> I'm pretty sure the 5400 series was the multi-cpu series, not
> simonb> the 5800 series.
> 
> Sorry, it's the other way around.  The 58x0 was the multi-cpu one.
> The 5400 was in a similar case to the 5500, ran at 20/25 MHz (which?)
> and I'm pretty sure it didn't have SCSI or Ethernet on the motherboard
> (although the definition of which board is the "motherboard" in these
> machines can be interesting - bottom line is SCSI and Ethernet were via
> Q-bus).

  Yes...I have a 5800...It's built in the same chassis as the VAX
62x0, with a big card cage in the middle of a rack...with BI on the
left and some other bus (XMI, maybe?) on the right.


                           -Dave McGuire
                            mcguire@neurotica.com