11/782

[Bill Pechter]

a.carlini at ntlworld.com wrote:

>All the stuff I see on the net is just "not many people know..."
>type of stuff with no credible sources (actually, mostly no
>sources whatsoever). I know that there were "VAXen that never
>shipped" and I might be able to remember the names of some of
>them if pushed (Raven, for one). But I never heard even a
>whispering of such a VAX while inside DEC and there is nothing
>that says "784" in the Options & Modules List (except for
>a raft of power supplies, some Mxxx[x] boards and some
>DECmate bits). Admittedly the only non-scanned searchable-text
>one I have is from 1994, but it still has the VAX-11/780 and
>a boatload of PDP-11s in there, so it would be odd if the
>mythical VAX-11/784 dropped off by accident.
>
>So unless someone digs out some evidence, I'll just choose
>not to believe that DEC ever built a 784 (and after building
>the 782, I cannot believe that they would have even tried :-)).
>
>
>Antonio
>
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>
What was the name of the dual 11/785 (made by upgrading two halves of 
the 11/782 to the 11/785...

I seem to remember seeing 11/785-2 stickers in some upgrades to Field 
Service. (These were for non-fcc upgrades of 11/780's to 11/785's... IIRC)

Was the dual 11/785 given the 11/784 name -- or was it an 11/787 or 
something like that.

Too damned long since I left 78A/79J Field Service at DEC.

Bill