Subject: Re: Big VAXen
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/04/1999 19:41:08
Wow, that's quite a system!
Too bad we're on opposite coasts; I'd offer to trade you a few [more] RA90
drives for your LG02. I've always wanted one.
-Dave McGuire
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Matt Thomas wrote:
>At 10:01 PM 9/25/99 , Matt Thomas wrote:
>>There's currently a VAX 6200 (actually a 6400) on Ebay. It's in
>>Hayward, CA so its local to me. If the my bid succeeds, someone
>>has already promised a home for it and so I will donate it to
>>the NetBSD foundation for NetBSD/vax development. I have a fond-
>>ness for XMI machines. Of all the VAXen, there are the "cleanest"
>>IMO. And if we can get a MIPS XMI board set, then maybe 5800
>>support could be written as well.
>>
>>http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170048864
>
>My bid was successful! Here's what I got for $500:
>
>FM-H9607-AA - 6200 System Box 208/60;
>KA64A-AA - T2015 CPU Module;
>MS62A-AB - 32MB ECC Memory;
>MS62A-AB - 32MB ECC Memory;
>DEBNA-M - VAXBI Ethernet Adapter;
>TBK70-M - VAXBI Module T1035;
>TK70-AA - TK70 Tape Drive;
>KDB50-C - RA-Disk Controller;
>KDB50-C - RA-Disk Controller;
>KDB50-A - RA-Disk Controller;
>SA70-HK - .56GB SA70 Building Block;
>RA70-A - 280MB 5.25" Disk;
>RA70-A - 280MB 5.25" Disk;
>SA600-FA - 2.4GB SA Building Block;
>RA90-NA - 1.2GB Disk;
>RA90-MA - 1.2GB Disk;
>RA90-MA - 1.2GB Disk;
>RA90-CA - 1.2GB Disk;
>RA90-CA - 1.2GB Disk
>TU81E-BA - TU81-Plus, BI-Bus;
>LG02-A2 - 600LPM Text/Graphics Printer;
>LA100-BA - KSR Term w/Tractor;
>
>Ragge, I assume you will want console access, right? :-)
>--
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