On 19/05/2016 18:07, "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Sean Caron <sca...@diablonet.net> wrote: >> ...I've never seen another microVAX I around... Ah, well, the KA655 is more >> functional ;) > > I have a MicroVAX I... it's more of a curiosity than anything. Quite > limited. We bought two when they first came out and upgraded one > (full price, $17K ISTR) to a MicroVAX II. The enhanced one was used > for product development and a few other things. The unenhanced one > was our hardware test box so if one of our boards under test was so > broken that it damaged the host (that did happen once or twice), it > was cheaper to get back into service. I should go fire that box up > and see if the hard drive has stiction (odds are good). I have a MicroVAX I too, it's the only machine I've got with an RQDX2 controller and I think it doesn't work. Last time I powered up I just got an @ prompt. -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection?