Subject: Re: VS 3100 SPX (SPGFX) testers wanted
To: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
From: Blaz Antonic <blaz.antonic@siol.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/25/2005 14:32:02
Hello,

>         Where are you based? Maybe someone could get a machine to you
>         (or buy one on ebay and get it shipped :

Slovenia (central Europe). Perhaps I should restate what I said before -
I have absolutely no idea where those (QDSS et al) are used except that
they are *not* used in most common Vaxstations and I certainly don't
have room to accomodate any large piece of hardware anymore. 

Thanks for the offer though - if you *really* want to help out with
development in this manner I suggest you fish for SPXgt (24 plane)
and/or SPXg (8 plane) Vaxstation 4000 60/9x graphics boards; both are
unsupported and seem to be far more common than QDSS and the rest of
that odd MicroVax (?) graphics stuff. Both SPXgt and SPXg show up on
eBay every now and then inside a 4000/90 but they usually end up out of
my affordable price range (when I acdd the shipping cost to the final
price). I imagine just that graphics boards could be had cheap in the US
(cheap compared to entire box and cheap to ship overseas compared to
complete machine). The irony is that many companies are literally
throwing functional and complete systems into grabage bin and I cannot
find a single graphics board anywhere :-(

Blaz Antonic
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