I've been looking for a printset for the VAX 6000-600 for a long time. I've never found one. <sigh> -- Ian
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 12:35 PM, tony duell <a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Well, ok, if your list was intended as a "first VAX" only list, then > > That is what I believe the OP was asking for, > > > fair enough. I would not consider most of those machines as good first > > VAXen either. Although, the 6000 is actually not that hard, nor some of > > the small 8000-machines, such as the 8200. > > The 6000 series are quite big cabinets and as a first VAX it's hard for me > to > see the great advantage over a microVAX or a VAXstation. > > > The problem with lots of the more modern machines though, are that they > > essentially are fine if they work, but if they break, you'll have a hard > > time to fix them. That goes both for the 6000 series as well as all the > > pizza boxes. > > My view is that there are only 2 VAXen series that I would want to run at > home. For me. > That is machines where component-level investigation and repair are very > possible, Those > series are the 11/780 (including the 11/782 and 11/785, of course) and the > 11/730 (including > 11/725). As I don't have space for the former, I intend to run the latter. > But my requirements and > interests are likely to be very different from other people's hence my > initial comments. > > Thing about the VAXstations is that there are quite a few about that can > be raided for spares. There > is a printset for at least one of them on bitsavers, so I would guess > finding a faulty IC is not going to > be impossible. I refuse to actually suggst b***d-sw*pp**g but you know > what I mean.... > > I have never seen a printset for a 6000, 7000, 8650, etc machine. Do they > exist? I doubt it for the > 6000 series. > > -tony > -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."