At 11:00 AM 6/19/00 -0500, John Havard wrote:
>Well, vax.sevensages.org will be down for a few weeks, until I get a T1 to
>my house.  Yes, I know I'm crazy.

T1 prices are getting downright reasonable these days, its sort of amazing.

>Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I just got a Vax 4000/300 off
>ebay.  Hooray for me.

We should establish the port-vax ebay cooperative and that might help keep 
us from bidding against each other ;-)

>   I don't know how much hard drive space the thing
>has, but even if it has none, I've got a few scsi drives laying around
>that will work nicely.

Unfortunately, it may or may not have a SCSI interface. The 4000/300 has 
DSSI on board and the BA440 cabinet is wired up to support a DSSI backplane 
in the top half. Or SCSI but I seen 8 of them now and they all had DSSI up 
there.

>   Anything I need to take in consideration about
>installing NetBSD on the thing, as I can almost guarantee that anything
>that was on it previously is no good.


Run -current since the 1.4.x doesn't know about the KA670 processor.

--Chuck