On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Gary Lee Phillips <tivo.ov...@gmail.com> wrote: > In fact there's very little evidence on the web that the 8200 ever existed. > The first VAX I ever worked with (around 1985 or so) was an 8200...
That's earlier than is possible... the model was introduced in Jan, 1986. Don't know date of first ship. > Anyway, yes, the console was an oddity. So was the terrible vacuum-less tape > drive built into the cabinet. I don't know what tape drive you are thinking of (TK50? TM03? TA81+?), but the 8200 was in a BA-32 box in the top of a 42"-tall cabinet and inside the lower part of the cabinet were a couple of cross-bar arms and cable restraints, and on the back, it was approx 50% I/O bulkheads for the ends of all those cables. http://hampage.hu/vax/kepek/Vax8200.jpg -ethan _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
