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? :-)
>-- 
>Matt Thomas               Internet:   matt@3am-software.com
>3am Software Foundry      WWW URL:    http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt/
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