VAX 11/730 - free to good home
PHH
I have an 11/730 with the following bits:
Out by themselves:
* H7140 (power supply?)
* RL02
* a faceplate with two tape/cart drives
In the cabinet:
* RL02
* CPU (it also says "DMF32 distribution panel" on the back)
* R80
I also have a VT220 terminal.
I don't know anything about VAXes but it was running when last powered
down about 15 years ago. I was given it by a friend I helped with
some IT consulting.
I have pictures I can make available. The system is in Greenville SC
and will be given away to the first person who can come pick it all
up.
It has to go ASAP so don't waste time thinking I will still have it in
a month. It will be scrapped. :-(
Thanks!
-- Peter.
John Reagan
"PHH" <peterhol...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Whomever gets this, I think I have a box of brand new TU58s (still
shrinkwrapped!) in a box in my basement. I'll donate them to the "lucky"
owner.
John
"Roßert G. Schaffrath"
"personal" VAX 11/730. I remember it taking ages to boot up due to the
microcode loading from TU58.
I believe there is an error in this description. Weren't the RL02 and
RA80 actually RB02 and RB80 due to the special adapter on the 11/730.
Granted I am trying to recall something from 25 years ago!
Robert
seefriek
I've always wanted an 11/730. I could drive over this weekend and pick it up if that works for you. I'm in Atlanta. You can reach me at seef...@gmail.com.
KJ
Johnny Billquist
> Wow this brings back memories! At my second job back in 1986, I had a
> "personal" VAX 11/730. I remember it taking ages to boot up due to the
> microcode loading from TU58.
>
> I believe there is an error in this description. Weren't the RL02 and
> RA80 actually RB02 and RB80 due to the special adapter on the 11/730.
> Granted I am trying to recall something from 25 years ago!
No, I think RL02 and R80 are the right designations. The RL02 is pure
and plain standard. The R80 however is a very special on-off. The
controller might have been the RB730 or something like that, though.
(Also trying to remember... :-) ) It was a combo thing controller having
both an RL interface, and the special interface for the R80 disk drive,
all on one card. The R80 was a special version of the RA80/RM80 disk.
Same HDA, different interface.
Johnny
Paul
Paul
abrsvc
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Peter,
A geographic location might help here. This is not a small system and
would require a pallet fro shipping.
Thanks,
Dan
John E. Malmberg
> Peter,
>
> A geographic location might help here. This is not a small system and
> would require a pallet fro shipping.
On 9/7/2011 2:38 PM, PHH wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have an 11/730 with the following bits:
<snip>
> I have pictures I can make available. The system is in Greenville SC
> and will be given away to the first person who can come pick it all
> up.
Regards,
-John
wb8...@qsl.network
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abrsvc
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Bob Eager
VAXman-
I know would welcome a working/running VAX-11/730. There is a VAX-11/750
that was salvaged but, AFAIAC, it'd take heap of work to clean and restore
to working condition if even possible.
I'd consider the drive to pick this up since I have a sister in Aiken area
I could pay a visit to at the time; however, I'm rather tight on time just
right now because of the OpenVMS Bootcamp in a week. Please let me know if
there's anyway this can be held onto until it can be picked up.
--
VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
All your spirit rack abuses, come to haunt you back by day.
All your Byzantine excuses, given time, given you away.
PHH
I've been contacted by several people and, as of right now, someone is
coming from Atlanta this weekend to pick the items up.
However, should that fall through, I have kept the contact information
I have received from everyone and I am pleased to know that, one way
or another, this system will go to a good home.
I've tried to reply directly to everyone who has contacted me but if I
somehow missed replying to you, please forgive me as it was an
oversight and I do still have your email.
By the way, a friend of mine needs a job. She's got 20+ years of VMS
experience and was in a position of high responsibility at the Bank of
NY (very hands on but also in contact with people at the C-level).
After 9/11 they relocated their data center to Nashville and she went
with it. Some time later they re-org'd and she was out.
I know this is not really the right place to ask that but I'd like to
help her, if I can, so I thought I would throw it out there that she's
available.
Thanks!
-- Peter.
John Wallace
one of the major participants) about the possibility (or not) of using
an RB730 on a VAX 750 ? Title "RB730 Integrated Disk Controller (R80/
RL02) usable with VAX-11/750?"
Anyway the upshot was that the RB730 was indeed a combo thing, tightly
integrated with the 730 CPU. If I remember rightly it wasn't a
separate card or module, it was tightly integrated using the same
microcoded bitslice stuff as executed VAX instructions to also do the
work of the disk controller. Or something like that.
Johnny Billquist
the conclusion was that the RB730 was actually also tightly integrated
with the CPU, so the card itself could not be used in other machines.
But the RB730 is a separate card. (If you can call it separate, as it
needs the rest of the CPU to function, but there is a card where the
disks connect, and you can be without that card and still have a 11/730).
Johnny
Tom Lake
I personally thought "Greenville, SC" was adequate.
Yeah! The land of Charlie Spivak! Everyone should know where Greenville is!
Tom L