On Fri Feb 10 22:14:18 CST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > they supported a special connection between two vaxen > > which would let them share dec raXX 80mb disks under > > special circumstances. i think we were able to share the > > mag tape, too. > > Was this related to the first 2-way 78x that (I think) was built at > Goergia Tech? (It's been a long time since I read the paper about > this.) (I'm thinking about the same loons who start their BBQ with > liquid oxygen. Both projects have entertainment value.)
no. they were independent 780s, except for the goofy-net between them. > We had to halt the microcode floppy IPL to poke a register on the TU > (?)x controller to put our (not DEC approved or supported) SI9000 tri- > density tape drive into the correct density in order to read the > install/upgrade tapes ;-) > > God I miss real hardware! i don't miss the stuff at all. quotacheck took 2 hours on a grand total of 1.5 G of disk. (assuming you didn't need to plug a terminal into the back of one of them and sacrifice a few cats to the compter gods.) oh, and i just remembered. the weekly backup took about 8 hrs for 1.5G onto 9 track. we did have a VHS-tape based backup that was never completely trusted. - erik
