what's missing in this vax780?

[Patrick Finnegan]

Ethan Dicks declared on Saturday 02 April 2005 06:00 pm:
> On Apr 2, 2005 5:47 PM, Heinz Wolter <h.wolter at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > ePay item# 5764980327 in case this stupid search link doesn't work
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1479&item=576
> >4980327&rd=1
> >
> > there are two blocks of slots empty - had the memory been stripped?
>
> Couldn't tell you about memory, but are those two black blocks empty
> or do they have a cover over them?  They don't look like unpopulated
> backplane slots to me.

Those are 'covers' that slide back and forth over the cards (sliding 
plexiglass doors;).

The left-most backplane is the KA780 (CPU), the next one to the right is 
memory - it appears to have 8 memory boards.  The next two card cages 
are DW780s or RH780s (unibus or massbus interface boxes).

> > Looks like the console 11 is intact..aren't there supposed to be
> > rx02's somewhere?
>
> My recollection is that there should be a single-drive RX01 (same
> boards, only one drive mech plugged in) somewhere near the bottom of
> the rack.  I'm sure others can give more authoritative answers.

There's an RX01 on the right, bottom (the silver colored box).  The drive 
faces upwards (only a single-drive not a double-drive), and swings out 
of the front of the VAX.

This guy can't spell and has no idea (imho) what these things are worth.  
The last 11/780 "untested" I saw on ebay went for $70ish to Dave 
McGuire, I picked one up from the same seller for $350ish which included 
a Data General Eclipse MV1400, Sun 3/180, DEC Rainbow, a pile of fujitsu 
14" SMD 800-900MB HDDs, an 11/750, and some other stuff I can't remember 
anymore (including a bunch of BA11s with UNIBUS cards and one UNIBUS 
SCSI card in it ;).   A bunch of it wasn't 100% working, but the stuff 
I've fixed so far hasn't been difficult to repair.

I'd say a price of $100-$200 depending on how much you really want it is 
a better price, considering that it may not be functional.

If you have more questions, I can tell you what mine looks like for 
reference.

Pat
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