[rescue] re: Vax Question

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Jan 11 11:12:18 CST 2002


On January 11, wlewis at mailbag.com wrote:
> I went down to the surplus shop, ran in and scarfed it up. I haven't been home 
> to fire it up yet, but for my $50 I got:
> 
> KA49-AB according to the back of the box
> 3 hard drives - a ST12400N 2.15 gb, a ST32430N 2.14 gb and and unknown drive 
> hiding under the 12400. The 23430 is sitting in the open cdrom bay without a 
> sled. 
> half the ram slots have sticks.
> Keyboard with busted N and Space keys
> No mouse (I have one though)
> And, best of all if it's alive, a DEC 19" color monitor. 
> 
> Seems to be in good condition - it was a UW-Madison box and has only minor dust 
> bunnies when I opened the cover. All in all, I'm excited. 
> 
> So, anyone have a cdrom sled for one of these available? Spare keycaps? 

  Oh WOW.  Now *that* is one of the better VAX deals I've seen, and
well, I've seen a bunch!  You definitely scored.  Bigtime.

  Sleds won't be too easy to find...I will dig through my stuff just
in case.  Keycaps...is it an LK201 or maybe an LK401 keyboard?

      -Dave

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



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