Subject: Re: VAX 7000... need info....
To: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
From: Mattias Nordlund <mathew@eagle.y.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/15/2000 22:57:44
The platic boxes is wery likly StorageWorks boxes, wery nice things.
And they have standard 50-pin scsi-2 connectors inside, two of them, one
wich if I remember correct is auto-terminating.

Mattias N

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, NetBSD Bob wrote:

> I see there are some VAX 7000 bits in our surplus pit this week.
> It looks like the cabinet was dropped from 10 feet onto its side,though.
> Anyway, for the sake of discussion, and perhaps some parts requisitioning,
> the drive cabinet has some plug-in drives in small vertically oriented
> plastic boxes with what looks like 3-row 50 pins per row connectors.
> Can anyone suggest what kind of drives they might be, and if they might
> be useful on other VAXen or DECstuff?  I also noted two 6 cartridge
> tape loaders in the cabinet.  Would they be useful, if they still
> were undamaged?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob
> 
>