[rescue] pursuing a VAX

[Andrew Weiss]

Heck I'd probably volunteer to come along and help load the thing.

Andrew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] pursuing a VAX


> On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 10:23 AM, James wrote:
> > I have found a VAX 6000/610 in a state of decommissioning at a 
> > datacenter my company uses.  I believe it belongs to a large medical 
> > group. To rescue this single cabinet unit I would have to dig deep to 
> > find a responsible party. Before I do this I was wondering if anyone 
> > could give me a rough description of this flavor of VAX and where it 
> > fits on the VAX desirability scale. If I pass on it, it is located in 
> > Medford, Massachusetts and I might be able to provide leads as to its 
> > owners.
> 
>    Quite desirable, I'd say.
> 
>    It can take up to six processors, but it currently has one (the "1" 
> in the model number indicates this).  32 VUPS/proc.  Peripherals are 
> usually XMI-bus, but it could have a BI-bus cage as well.  They can be 
> converted to ordinary 220V split phase power relatively easily, but are 
> usually (always?) set up for three-phase power.  They don't actually 
> pull all that much power at all, believe it or not...quite practical to 
> run at home, despite assumptions to the contrary when considering their 
> physical size.  A 6-proc VAX6000-6x0 is a force to be reckoned with 
> CPU-wise.
> 
>    Good info can be found at http://www.stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au/vax/.
> 
>        -Dave
> 
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