Subject: Re: a VAX 11/780 in my garage ...
To: Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/29/2002 01:23:05
On January 29, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> I am happy to announce my new baby: thanks to Jon Auringer of
> Astronautics and Merle Pierce of RICM, I have now a VAX 11/780
> in my garage. Nice cabinet, with UNIBUS extension and a TE16
> drive (looks nice but will I ever sacrifice a 25A circuit just
> for it?).

  Oh My.  I *really* like TE16 drives.  They'll run on much less than
a 25A circuit, though...Years ago, I ran a TE16 and a PDP11/34a with
two RL01s on a 15A circuit.  It was tight, but it ran.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf